Transcript What next Life after year 13

What next?
Life after year 13
What are your options after you leave
school/college ?
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Lesson starter
What is my job?
• I link people to information
• I use graphics and
animation to create a visual
impact
• I need to understand the
target audience
• I have a degree
• I constantly need to update
my skills
• I can earn a good salary
• My company employs 40
people
• I enjoy the flexible working
atmosphere
• Problem solving is part of my
job
• I need to be organised
• I passed A levels and then
trained on the job
• I have a good salary
• Part of the job is managing
the tills for our restaurants
and hotels
• I work in the football business
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Answers to lesson starter
Lisa - Website Designer Project
Manager for a web development
team of 5 men
Elaine – IT Manager for Chelsea
Football Club and Chelsea Village (a
number of companies involved in
hotels, travel merchandising,
conferences and banqueting and a
training ground)
Do you have to have a degree to get the job you want?
Use this lesson to start thinking about your future
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What is a “Career”
Work / Job
Family,
Community &
Voluntary
Activities
Education
Training
A Pathway through Life
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Job or Career?
Some definitions for the 21st century world of work are:
• Occupation: a group of jobs with common characteristics requiring
similar skills, e.g. hairdresser, teacher, project manager.
• Job: a distinct position with specific duties in a particular place,
e.g. maths teacher at Sometown High School. Jobs can be fulltime, part-time, permanent, temporary, paid or voluntary, and some
people have more than one job at the same time.
• Career: a person’s lifelong pathway through learning and work.
It is possible to manage work/education/community/voluntary work
in a variety of ways to improve your career prospects
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Help is available !
Teachers, parents, careers
advisers, friends and family
Information
about work
and jobs
Application
forms and
CVs
Information
about
courses
Making
decisions
Interview
preparation
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What are the options ?
YOU
University
Training
Gap Year
Employment
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Discuss and make notes
Why are you For or Against these options?
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Employment
For
• Start earning a full time
wage
• Practical
• Opportunities to learn on
the job
• No university debt
• Can study part time
• Can go to university later
on
Consider
• More and more careers may
ask for degrees e.g.
– Accountancy
– Social work
– Law
– Journalism
• Long term prospects
• Competition
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Employment
Traditionally, where are the jobs after A levels?
Banking
Retail
Local Authorities
Armed Forces
Catering
Technical design jobs
Health – auxiliary nursing, ambulance
Travel – travel agency, air cabin crew
Public services – police, fire officers
CREDIT CRUNCH Warning 2009
there are fewer jobs available at the moment, but keep an eye on future trends
– there will be skills shortages in some of these areas and the ageing
workforce will need to be replaced.
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Training / Apprenticeships
For
• Leading to recognised
qualifications- e.g.NVQs
• Practical way of learning
• Possible in some cases to go
onto Higher Education
• Block or day release to college
• Advantage over 16 year old
school leaver, more mature,
focussed
Consider
•
Must be focussed – 3-4
year commitment
•
Average £160-180 week
wage to start
•
Very competitive
•
Must be willing to follow
opportunities e.g moving
around
CREDIT CRUNCH Warning 2009 - fewer apprenticeships available
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GAP Year before university
For
Consider
• Must be well planned and
researched
• Check with university
whether it’s advised
• Opportunity to work and
save for university
• Fantastic travel experience
• Disorganised – gap on CV and
university application
• Can be expensive – need to plan
• Some courses may not like
students taking gap years
CHECK
CREDIT CRUNCH Warning 2009
Currently finding work for a Gap year is particularly challenging
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Higher Education - University
• 40% of all students now go to university
• Opens more doors – twice as likely to be unemployed without a
degree than with a degree
• People with degrees on average earn £150,000 more over a
lifetime than people without
• More and more jobs require graduates
– Social work, Nursing, Accountancy
CREDIT CRUNCH Warning 2009 –
More students are applying therefore there will be more competition for places
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Higher Education - University
Qualifications through Higher Education
Doctorate
Masters Degree
Undergraduate Degree
(PhD)
(MSc, MA, MBA)
(BA, BSc, LLB)
Foundation Degree
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Why are we thinking about this now ?
• Year 12 - Summer term – start thinking about your
future and start researching
• Year 13 - September – some GAP year schemes
take a year to arrange
• October 15th – Deadlines for applying to Oxford /
Cambridge/ Medicine / Vet Science / Dentistry
• October half term – Teachers need notice for writing
references
• January 15th – Deadline for all applications
• January – apprenticeships / trainee schemes /jobs
advertised for Summer start
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Deadlines
• Add your own dates
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Decision making – again!
• Define the decision
• Establish the options
• Collect information
about the options
• Investigate the pros
and cons
• Decide the best option
• Execute your decision
• What do you want to do after
year 13 ?
• What are your choices ?
• Research UCAS.com, university
websites, prospectuses, job
opportunities, apprenticeships
and finance
• Look at both sides of your
options
• What do you really want to doyou may change your mind while
researching
• Start your application
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Reflect on your thinking
Have you learned anything to change your mind?