Careers

Unifrog

In keeping with our commitment to provide students with outstanding careers guidance and tailored support when choosing their next step after school, we will now be using Unifrog; an award-winning, online careers platform. All students in Years 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 now have access to this excellent website.

Unifrog brings into one place every undergraduate university course, apprenticeship, and college course in the UK, as well as other opportunities, such as School Leaver Programmes, MOOCs and every college at Oxford and Cambridge. This makes it easy for students to compare and choose the best university courses, apprenticeships, or further education courses for them. They can also explore exciting opportunities further afield by looking at English-taught undergraduate programmes available in Europe and the USA.

Additionally, the platform helps students successfully apply for these opportunities by using Unifrog to write their personal statement, applications and CVs.

The Unifrog tools

Careers Library

Over 1000 career profiles
Presents information from a range of sources
Includes qualifications and skills needed, interviews with industry professionals and labour market information
Explores progression opportunities and what a working week really looks like

UK Universities

Students can enter subjects of interest and projected grades to see all relevant university courses available in the UK
Rank and filter opportunities by factors like hours of lectures, price of accommodation and graduate job rates
Get direct links to university information pages, with impartial information on courses and institutions
Save unlimited shortlists to refer back to later

Apprenticeships

Students can find live apprenticeship vacancies
Vacancies are updated daily
Rank and filter opportunities by factors like distance from home, weekly wage and application deadlines
Direct link to the ‘apply’ page
Each apprenticeship vacancy includes practical information about the opportunity, employer and training
Save unlimited shortlists to refer back to later

Special Opportunities

Includes £5 million-worth of grants, bursaries, scholarships, contextual offers and extracurricular activities
These can be filtered by circumstances or characteristics, depending on the access requirements of the opportunity
Includes direct links for applying
Unlimited shortlists can be created and referred back to

Labour Market Information

Labour Market Information (LMI) is a useful tool to help research future jobs in the local area, understand the skills needed for certain roles and the demand for future employment.

LMI helps to break down the complex ‘world of work’. Crucially for young people, LMI covers future demand – what kinds of jobs will be in demand after leaving school and what kinds of skills will be needed. Labour market information tells you:

Which jobs are likely to be easiest or hardest to find in your area
Which are the big employers in different areas and which ones have jobs on offer
What skills employers are looking for and which are in short supply
How much you can expect to be paid in specific jobs
What working conditions are like
What qualifications will be most helpful if you want a certain career
What the jobs of the future might look like and which jobs might disappear

All of these factors can help young people make a more informed decision about what career path to take.

Industries with a growing number of employment opportunities in Essex:

Essex Opportunities

Careers Directory

Use the careers directory to research different sectors, understand the main tasks within job roles and average salaries, learn about which qualifications you should consider studying and explore the current job and apprenticeship vacancies in Essex and Southend. Careers Directory

Careerometer

Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help young people learn about different occupations and identify potential careers. It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation. Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare.

PDT & Career Newsletters

Careers Staff

Mrs M Robb

Head of PDT, PSHE, Music Teacher, Child Development Teacher, Food & Textiles Teacher, Careers Leader

michelle.robb@notleyhigh.com

Notley High School & Braintree Sixth Form