Outwood Academy City

Useful Websites

CAREERS WEBSITES

  • National Careers Service  – This is the Government’s hub for careers advice for people of all ages where you can find help with drafting letters, CVs, exploring your skills or seeking careers advice.
  • icould – aims to help you to make the most of your potential by showing how others have used theirs, take the ‘Buzz’ personality profile quiz.
  • Careers Box – video based job profile information and skills explorer tool.
  • Success at School – gives clear and comprehensive information about a range of Career Zones (sectors), in an easy to access format. Students can create a profile to help to collate useful information. ’60 second interviews’ giving profile of professionals, provide a useful insight into specific careers.
  • How to become – offers detailed advice on how to access a range of sectors. Also offers the purchase of resources, compiled in conjunction with professionals working in these fields, designed to enable you to achieve your dream career or course. A selection of these books and online psychometric testing access have been supplied to the School by How2Become.
  • Russell Group – represents 24 leading universities, source of careers information & advice including ‘informed choices’ a downloadable guide to making post 16 choices.
  • Prospects – find out which areas you could access after a particular degree.
  • My Career Springboard – Springboard is for students. It is divided into two main sections: the Career Test and the Career Exploration Tool. In tandem, these two interactive tools allow students to find some career inspiration and gain an insight into their different career options.
  • Job Applications – this site has useful videos, demonstrating how to complete the online applications for many top companies in the UK, as well as providing detailed information on salaries and interviews. Applications forms can be printed off directly from this site.
  • Telegraph Jobs  – lots of information about specific sectors as well as advice on how to create a CV and prepare for interviews.
  • All about school leavers – displays current apprenticeship and school leaver programme opportunities, to the latest school leaver job news, and gives career journey advice.
  • StartProfile – Start is a free and comprehensive digital platform, offering schools and colleges a single starting point to help simplify and improve careers guidance in schools. They also have a home learning portal here

CAREER QUIZZES

  • Sort organises over 1000 job types based on your interests and strengths, making … for your future, and discover opportunities you might not have known about
  • Buzz Test – short test that analyses your personality to see which job might suit you
  • University of Kent – quick test that analyses your skills and gives examples of jobs that you may like. More suitable for older students
  • What’s working for you? – fun work personality test
  • UKSP Careers quiz – quick quiz that tells you which careers in hospitality/leisure/travel/tourism would suit you

CAREER VIDEOS

  • Careersbox – free online library of careers related film, news and information
  • Careers4u – videos on loads on different jobs and students talking about apprenticeships, uni, jobs etc
  • icould – videos of people in different occupations describing what they do

UNIVERSITY

  • UCAS – official site where you can search and apply for your degree
  • Complete University Guide – does what it says on the tin
  • Bestcourse4me – shows link between your course and the kind of jobs you can get/money you can earn
  • Unistats – search, review and compare courses and universities; reviews by students
  • Studential – university guide written by graduates. Includes examples of thousands of real-life personal statements broken down by subject
  • Which?University – what to study, where to go and how to get there
  • Open Days – search open days at unis
  • Push – independent and brutally honest site about life at uni
  • Prospects – helps students consider what they can do after their degree. Includes free psychometric test to determine suitable degrees.

FINANCE

  • Student Finance – official site for applications
  • Care To Learn – help pay for childcare costs if you are studying and under 20
  • Student Cash Point – guide to finding financial support (bursaries/awards etc) to assist with the cost of uni

GAP YEARS

  • Gap Force – How does a gap year bridge the gap between education and employment
  • Gap Year – official government information on gap year travel
  • Gapyear.com – commercial site giving information and ideas
  • Year in Industry – offers internships to undergraduates and HE students in Engineering, Business, Marketing and IT

APPRENTICESHIPS

INTERVIEWS

PARENTS & CARERS

  • Parent Adviser – advice for parents/carers about career options for their children

JOBS

SELF EMPLOYMENT

  • Livewire – support, information and advice for 16-30 year olds wanting to set up their own business
  • The Prince’s Trust Enterprise programme – support for unemployed young people age 18-30 to determine if their business ideas are viable and whether self employment is right for them

STUDENT/PART-TIME JOBS

  • Natives – ski and seasonal jobs at home and abroad
  • Thebigchoice – part-time/temp/summer/seasonal jobs for students
  • Studentjob – part-time jobs and internships
  • E4S – part-time, holiday, seasonal, temporary, festival and gap year jobs at home and abroad
  • Just Student Jobs – part-time, holiday, seasonal, temporary, festival and gap year jobs at home and abroad
  • Your Rights at Work – Citizens Advice Bureau guide to working whilst studying, young people’s employment rights, minimum wage and working conditions

STUDYING ABROAD

STUDENT SITES

  • The Student Room – online student community – help with revision, statements, applying to uni etc

VOLUNTEERING

  • Vinspired – volunteering guide for 14-24 year olds. Search and apply for opportunities
  • Do It – national volunteering site, search for current opportunities

WORK EXPERIENCE

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INFORMATION ON SPECIFIC JOBS

Accountancy

Aerospace

Animal, Land-Based and Environment Jobs

Armed Forces

Construction

Creative Careers

Electrical and Engineering

Health, Social and Personal Care

Hospitality/Leisure/Tourism

  • Careers That Move – information on jobs in the transport and travel industry
  • Hospitality Guild – information on careers in hospitality. Includes a careers quiz which tells you which roles would suit you best
  • Tasty Careers – careers in the food and drink sector
  • CruiseShipJobs – information on working on cruise ships and job search
  • CareerScope – information on jobs in hospitality, tourism and leisure

Digital/Web

Law

  • All About Law – guide to degrees and careers in Law
  • LNAT – guide to the test you may have to take to gain entry onto a Law degree
  • LawCareers – comprehensive guide to becoming a lawyer

Mechanics

  • Autocity – careers in the motor industry including apprenticeship vacancies

Media TV & Communications

Medicine

  • A Taste of Medicine – good guide if you’re considering a career in medicine
  • BMAT – find out about one of the tests for entry onto a medical/dentistry degree
  • UKCAT – is the other test you may have to take for entry onto medical/dentistry degree
  • Medlink – four day course at Nottingham Uni for 6th formers on getting into Medicine
  • Gap Medics – medical work experience abroad during school holidays/gap year
  • Job Medic – the UK’s number one employment site for nurses, midwives and social and health care assistants, with a large pool of nursing vacancies across the UK

Music

Podiatry

  • Careers in Podiatry– information on entry requirements, course finders, salary expectations and useful blog posts

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)

Science and Pharmaceuticals

Sport

Theatre

Transport and Logistics

Uniformed and Public Services

* This is not a list of recommended sites but a guide to help direct you to useful sources of information