Useful Careers Websites

Career Related Websites

Please find websites listed below and log-in details that can assist you in finding out more about various careers:

Prospects – Match your skills and personality to 400+ job profiles.

Quizzes to complete if you are unsure what to do

If you are unsure about career options or want to explore ideas, try some of the career quizzes links below.  It is important to think about the skills needed for a job and how they match with yours, also your own values and priorities and what you want to get out of doing a job.

 https://www.prospects.ac.uk/planner

 https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

 https://careerswales.gov.wales/buzzquiz

Finding a career

• National Careers Service – a Government organisation which helps you find out what a job involves and if it’s right for you. Telephone: 0800 100 900
• CareerPilot – Plan your study and work. Career tools to help you decide which choices to make at 14, 16 and 18, consider routes to different qualifications and find out about job sectors.
• BBC Bitesize Careers – videos explaining the world of work, with advice from people who've found the right path for them.
• icould https://icould.com/ – Listen to people from accountants to zookeepers tell their own story about their real life career journeys.
• Success at School – Career advice for schools and students aged 13-19.
• https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/ - Get all the information you need for a career within the NHS.

Further education and higher education: resources

• UCAS – Explore your options, apply to uni, alternatives to uni, further education, careers.
• The Student Room – Looks at careers in graduate job sectors as well as advice on applying to uni.
• Which University? – Find and compare the best universities and degree courses.
• All About School Leavers – Helps school leavers get jobs and understand the career paths available to them, including apprenticeships, school leaver programmes and sponsored degrees.
• http://www.insidecareers.co.uk/ - For Graduate jobs, internships, placements and school leaver schemes as well as the highest quality career advice by sector.
• https://university.springpod.com - Subject Spotlights is a mini lecture series delivered by top academic professors on a certain topic designed to give students a chance to experience realistic university-style learning before they have to apply for courses. Students can find Spotlights on Law, Economics and more! As well as view profiles for different universities to help them in gathering information so they can make an informed choice about where they want to study next.
• https://www.milkround.com/school-leavers - Opportunities and advice for school and college leavers.

Success at School Apprenticeships Guide

Find an Apprenticeship – Government-run website that helps you find an apprenticeship.

A Guide to Apprenticeships – Find out what it’s like to be an apprentice – the opportunities, benefits and just how far an apprenticeship can take you in the future. How subjects can link to options.

www.amazingapprenticeships.com - Lots of information about apprenticeships and a really good ‘vacancy’ section showing the types of apprenticeships company offer.

https://www.ucas.com/apprenticeships - Get to know all about apprenticeships with leading employers useful tips and hints, vacancies and UCAS has to offer. 

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Recruitment Process Tests

As more organisations are requesting students to carry out tests as part of their application processes, please see below links to some sites which share more information about the different types of tests and offer some practice test.

Psychometric tests

• Saville, SHL, Aon are the providers most commonly used in the early careers space

Practice Tests - Saville Assessment

Practice Tests | SHL Direct

Prepare for an Online Assessment (aon.com)

Pathway CTM have produced a video, ‘Preparing for Interview’.  Click here to view.

Apprenticeship Resources

• www.remit.co.uk: Remit Training deliver Apprenticeship programmes in the Automotive, IT, Business, Hospitality, Food Manufacturing, Retail and Care industries across the UK.
• https://apprenticeships.qa.com/: IT-based apprenticeships
• Find an Apprenticeship: Government-run website that helps you find an apprenticeship.
• A Guide to Apprenticeships: Find out what it’s like to be an apprentice – the opportunities, benefits and just how far an apprenticeship can take you in the future.
• Not Going to Uni: Ideas for alternatives to university.
• Whitehat: Matches non-graduate talent with apprenticeship opportunities at some of the UK's most exciting companies.
• www.amazingapprenticeships.com: Lots of information about apprenticeships and a good ‘vacancy’ section showing the types of apprenticeships the company offer.
• The Bucks Skills Hub: This website gives you invaluable career-related information, including guides to different job sectors, case studies on the world of work, how to make yourself more employable, and much more! Take a look around to find inspiration - your future depends on what you do today.

Career Related Courses

• FutureLearn - Partners with over 170 world-class universities, institutions and industry leaders to create world-class courses to help you with your career. Identify students' strengths and learn how to use their time at university to explore career options and prepare for future job roles. It will help anyone unsure whether university is right for them to identify how to make the most of a degree to better their employability after graduation.
• Get the Jump - Skills for Life Campaign - Click here for more information and the resources/toolkit can be found here. The resource can be used to support the new campaign and raise awareness and understanding of the full range of education and training choices available to young people aged 14-19.