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Year 10 Options Day 2013 Careers Department KS3 Preparation in Employability Classes • • • • • • • Identifying skills and qualities Computer Packages Job Family Survey Interviews Options Booklet The Options Day www.nidirect.gov.uk/careers What are your skills? Do you enjoy: Building things? Being active and working outdoors? Making and fixing things? Solving problems? Helping people? Writing? Sorting out arguments? Researching things? Designing? What qualities do you have? How do these fit in with subject choice? Keep An Eye On The Labour Market In the current economic climate, it is more important than ever that young people make their career choices wisely. While it’s important to study a subject that you enjoy, it’s also prudent to have an eye on the career opportunities which lie ahead. View from N.I. Government Education Committee Chairperson, Mervyn Storey MLA said, at Stormont, in January 2013: “STEM skills are essential for a thriving economy. They are naturally associated with research and development, a crucial factor for developing a knowledge-based economy. It is therefore vital that we do all that we can to encourage our young people to take an interest in these subjects”. STEM Science , Technology, Engineering and Maths • Along with a balanced curriculum, STEM is going to feature very heavily in many young people’s futures. Check out this website…… • www.futuremorph.org.uk Growth areas • • • • • • • ICT Agri-food industry Advanced Materials Advanced Engineering Creative Industries Retail Business and Financial Services STEM/NON-STEM in typical company Manager Operations Finance IT Sales Design After sales HR/Admin Marketing Management Operations Finance Maths/Bus/ Eng Mod Lang H. Econ Geog Bus St/ Eng Mod Lang Maths Design IT Sales IT/Maths Science/ Bus St History/Eng/RE Mod Lang/Geog Bus St Maths After sales Art ICT Maths Science HR/ Admin Art Eng/RE/Hist Mod Lang Marketing/Event Mgt Eng/Journalism H Econ/PE Drama/Maths Art/ Drama Eng/RE/ PE/Geog Decision Making Styles: •Take a chance… •Act on impulse… •Wait and see… •Go for least risk… •Go along with others… Think it through and choose what feels right… Careers Dept Advice Choose: • Subjects you are good at. • Subjects you like. • Subjects which keep Career Paths Open. Look at individual subjects and ask… • Do you regularly get good results? • Are you motivated in this subject? • Do you read anything topical about the subject? • Are you motivated by the practical nature of the subject? • Do you know if you need it for your future career? www.ucas.com Can’t fit in all your choices? • • • • • • You may be able to do ‘A’ Level in certain subjects, without a GCSE, but there are specific criteria: Business Studies Physical Education History Drama Computing GCSE Lunchtime classes may offer possibilities in Music Russell Group Universities There are some subjects that are required more than others in Russell Group Universities. These subjects are sometimes referred to as Facilitating Subjects. Subjects that can be viewed as Facilitating Subjects are: Maths and Further Maths English Physics Biology Chemistry Geography Languages (Classical and Modern) History STUDY THE INFORMED CHOICES RUSELL GROUP GUIDE. Some further considerations when making choices… • Art is preferred for Architecture in QUB • Medicine, in many universities, requires either GSCE Physics on its own, or as part of Double Award Science. Biology is required to at least AS level. • Without a Modern Language at GCSE, you may not meet the entrance requirements for many courses in the NUI universities in the South of Ireland. Quote from University College London “We believe that knowledge of a modern foreign language and the possession of intercultural skills are an integral part of a 21st century education”. Who can help? • • • • • • Subject Teachers Careers Teachers Parents Older brothers and sisters Students already doing GCSE Employers Careers Staff Mr James Davey Ms Briege Moley Ms Roisín White Ms Mairéad Sweeney Mr Liam McKenna Ms Anne Hughes Mr Peter McEvoy (DEL Careers Adviser)