Transcript Year 7 introduction to careers

Year 7 introduction to
careers
•What does Careers
Mean?
What is a Careers Adviser?
This is someone who advises you on different
job areas, qualifications, but mostly on
decisions about what to do next. Careers
Advisers talk to you and help you to move
onto something else when you leave school
be it a job, an apprenticeship, a place at
college or at university)
What is Careers Advice?
Careers Advice?
• Careers advice can, and does, come from all sorts of people and
places – friends, parents, the internet, television, Teachers and
Career s or personal advisers.
• The point is no one knows you like you do BUT it usually helps to
talk things through with other people that either know you pretty
well or who know a lot about choosing a career path and where to
find information.
• Impartial advice
• People who know you can be an invaluable source of help, but you
need to think about the effect their position may have on whether
the advice they give you is unbiased. That doesn’t mean that you
should not seek their help or ignore it when they give it, just weigh
it up and consider it when you’re preparing by thinking about your
achievements, skills and knowledge.
Careers help at Allerton Grange
School
• More specialised Careers help and support
really starts in year 9 for option choice
• Year 10 work experience
• Then help for what you are going to do at the
end of year 11 be it Sixth form, College or
employment
• Sixth form plans for going to university or
getting a job
Careers in Year 7 & 8
• Year 7 and 8 is all about developing your self
awareness and discovering the types of
careers that are out there in the big wide
world!!
• To help you start have a look at some of
these websites:
icould
• I would recommend the Buzz Test and Tycoon
Game as they are really good fun and they will
help you find out lots of information about the
world of work but more importantly the kind
of person you are and want to be.
• http://www.icould.com/buzz/
Future Morph
• This is a website designed for young people who are
interested in Science and Maths but you don’t have to
be to explore all the good things on the site and you
never know it just might spark an interest in something
to do with Maths and Science that you did not realise
before!
• Click on 11-13 and then next steps
• Have a Go on Game as it asks you what will you be in
the future? & Expolre how the things you enjoy link to
jobs involving Science.
• http://www.futuremorph.org
More about icould
• icould.com/buzz/
• With The Buzz personality quiz, you'll discover more about
what makes you tick and what you're naturally good at.
• The Buzz is based on work by Carl Jung and Myers-Briggs
which, at over 50 years old, is the most widely used
personality test in the world! It has been used to explore
• Temperament (personality or character)
• learning styles ( how you like to learn things)
• relationships (dealings with other people) &
• stress management (pressure, strain and anxiety)
• Your profile on icould will provide a little bit of all of these.
How to use it
• There are four questions. Each one requires you
to choose between two traits, which relate to
four big aspects of personality: where we get our
energy from; how we take information in; how
we understand and store that information and
our overall approach to life. There's no right or
wrong. It's just that one is your preference. From
these preferences we can identify you as one of
sixteen personality types. Most people are
surprised at just how much is revealed based on
these four aspects of our personality.
Self awareness
• So you have already started to develop
yourself awareness. It is important to be
truthful about yourself in this process.
• There is no point lying to yourself and telling
yourself that you are a good at something if
you are not as you will be rumbled at some
stage!
Truth
• Think of 3 things about yourself ( 2 things have
to be the truth and 1 has to be a lie then
everyone has to discover which one is a lie)
• Example
• I have travelled to Bahrain
• I once had pink hair
• I used to look after a Rhodesian ridgeback
• You can ask me 3 questions before deciding
which one is a lie
Be honest!
• The point of this exercise is to demonstrate
that most of the time you will be caught out
and there is no point in lying about what you
are good if you are not or what you have
done if you haven’t. When you are aiming for
a career be honest!!!
Self awareness and skills
• Can anyone suggest things that are important
skills and qualities for the future?
• Write down 1 thing that you are good at and 1
thing that you are not good at.
• Some skills are very important for the future
so even if you are not good at them you will
have to work at them to help you in the
future.