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College Open Day Websites

Apprenticeship Bulletin

Please see link below for access to the bulletin:

https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=b01eb6817d4388e35e6b0ea47&id=5419f44005

Here is a link to information on financial support from Bury College (Means tested bursary) bus pass etc.

https://burycollege.ac.uk/how-we-support-you/student-services/

Could you please pass this information on to parents/carers. Any issues you can email the college direct student.services@burycollege.ac.uk or if you prefer you can get back to me.

Hopwood Hall College's brand new 'Preparing for College' webpage is now live. This is a really useful page to visit to download those all-important pre-enrolment packs for each of our study areas.

Please see link below and share with your pupils and parents/carers:

https://www.hopwood.ac.uk/about/preparing-college

Student Information / Careers News - What's up and coming / Vocational Courses?

Brownhill Learning Community adopts a whole school approach to National Careers Week involving employers coming into school and a lot of work in planned lessons looking at ‘The World of Work’ and how our young people can aspire to do whatever they want to do if they put in the time and effort.

Career Guidance Interview Preparation Information

Please view this PowerPoint Presentation to see how to best prepare for an Interview

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How to Prepare for a Careers Interview

Activities to help me research careers

Here are some activities you might find helpful to get you used to researching careers related topics.

Why not have a go? You can do these whether you have specific career ideas or not.

It shows you some of the useful websites out there to help you.

Task 1 - Researching Careers

Look up https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/explore-careers
Pick a job category, for example healthcare, and list 5 jobs in that section

For each job find

A brief description of the job
Entry requirements
Skills and qualities required
Details about the working environment

Task 2 - Identifying my skills and qualities and suitable careers

Using https://icould.com/buzz-quiz/ take the buzz quiz –
Answer the questions honestly and you will be given your own profile all about you.
You will be given an animal that suits your personality and it will tell you all about you including popular career ideas and celebrities who have the same personality type as you.

Task 3 - Post 16 options

When you leave school you have a few options – you can study at a college or 6th form school or college or start a job or apprenticeship.
If you don’t quite feel ready for a job but don’t want to go to college you might want to look at training and do a study programme or traineeship.
Look at their websites and see all the courses they offer and how they are different. A small selection is below but there are lots of colleges and providers in the Greater Manchester area.

Task 4 Progression Plan

Have a go at completing the progression, or action plan and send it to your careers advisor.
This document summarises your situation and sets plans in place for the future.
It can really help your Career Advisor to see where you are up to and what you might need help with.

Follow the link below to the Progression Plan

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