Careers
South Bromsgrove High offers independent, impartial careers advice and guidance regarding education, employment, training opportunities to students across years 9 to 13.
The current Careers Strategy can be accessed below.
Information for parents and students can be found below.
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| Mr Steve Clark | Mrs Nicola Robinson |
Our Careers Lead is Mr Steve Clark. All initial enquiries about Careers Education, Independent Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) should be directed to him using sjc@southbromsgrove.worcs.sch.uk
We have an experienced careers' adviser, Mrs Nicola Robinson, who meets one to one with students to offer careers advice and guidance. Appointments are targeted at specific key transition points with a view to supporting students with decision-making concerning their future options.
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Careers in Year 9
Careers in Year 9
During Year 9 there will be opportunity to research different career options and learn more about various career paths. This is done through:
- Use of a powerful online careers tool – Xello.
- Representatives from employers visiting school to talk about their career paths
- A chance to visit the school’s Careers Fair where around 40 businesses, colleges, trainers, the armed services, and universities are available to discuss future options
- Guidance for option choices moving into GCSE
- Visits to universities for the vast majority of students and local employers for all students
XELLO
Xello will enable you to develop a profile that you will keep updating throughout your time at school. By answering questions about yourself it will make suggestions of careers that might interest you though you can use it simply to research a career that you are already interested in. You can also record skills and interests that you feel are particular strengths. Xello can be accessed from the South Online homepage.
Visits to Universities and local employers
This list is just some of those that take in our students for a 1 – 2 hour tour during Activities Week in the summer term
AFH Wealth, Armstrong Fluid Technology, Big Bear Plastics, Hereford & Worcester Fire Service, Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Koito Manufacturing, Morrisons, Muller Milk, Oakland International, Palace Theatre Redditch, University of Worcester, University of Birmingham
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Careers in Year 10
Careers in Year 10
During Year 10 the big focus is on developing a CV and the job shadowing opportunity in the summer term. The activities are listed here in the order that they are likely to happen through the year.
- Continuing development of soft skills through the school’s focus on Character Education and the use of Xello to:
- Create individual profiles and research suggested careers
- Set goals to encourage participation in character building activities
- Record activities
- Preparation of a CV and profile that could be share with future employers
- job shadowing (work experience) supported through the tutorial programme and parents’ information evening
- careers fayre with over 40 training providers and colleges attending
- individual careers guidance interviews commence in the summer term
- opportunity to develop soft skills through the Duke of Bronze Edinburgh Award
XELLO
It is important to go back into Xello regularly and update your profile as you discover more about yourself and your ambitions change. As well as keeping your profile up-to-date you can use the CV builder to create that essential document to promote yourself with future employers or trainers.
Job Shadowing
This will be launched in the Autumn Term with presentations to students and parents about the exact dates, requirements and advice on securing a placement.
There is a form to be completed by the parent, student and placement. An electronic copy will be emailed to all parents and students. It is best to complete online but it is fine to hand in a paper copy at the school office.
The key, most important idea is that job shadowing is to give students the experience of real work. This can happen in any employment setting, whether it is one the student would choose for themselves or not. It may be hard to get a placement in the exact business or sector that a student is interested in so it is best to accept whatever is available, even if it is not a student’s first choice.
The deadline for return of the forms is the February half-term. If this is missed it is fine to hand in forms late. It is also important to keep searching for a placement, right up until the actual week which will usually be in July.
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Careers in Year 11
Careers in Year 11
Naturally, the focus for Y11 is making a good choice for after Year 11 when they have completed their GCSEs. The majority of students at South choose to move into our own Sixth Form but we ensure everyone is given appropriate guidance.
Theses are the key items in the Y11 Careers programme
- Continuing development of soft skills through the school’s focus on Character Education and the use of Xello to:
- Research of post-16 opportunities
- Create individual profiles and research suggested careers
- Set goals to encourage participation in character building activities
- Record activities
- Preparation of a CV and profile that could be share with future employers
- careers guidance continue throughout the year delivered by small group work, “drop-ins” and one-to-one interviews
- information evening for parents regarding post-16 options, processes and labour market information
- mock interviews
- research for post-16 options through the tutorial programme, assemblies and suspended timetable making use of the Xello platform
- Sixth Form open evening
- careers fayre with over 40 training providers and colleges attending
- opportunity to develop soft skills through the Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award
Careers Interviews
These will usually last 30 minutes. Students will be notified via their tutor. It is very important not to miss their appointments. If 30 minutes isn’t enough there will be a follow up arranged.
By re-visiting Xello and the profile that students have built up over years 9 and 10 they will be able to talk clearly with their ideas with the Careers Officer.
The interviews will take place from late September all the way through to late April, with priority given to those identified as needing the most guidance.
Mock Interviews
In October a day is set aside so that volunteers from local business and enterprise can spend 10 – 15 minutes in a one-to-one interview with Y11 students. The questions are general, interview style questions to enable the student to talk about themselves and promote their strengths and ambitions. 20 minutes is allocated to the activity so that the interviewer can give the student some immediate feedback and tips for the future.
XELLO
It is important to go back into Xello regularly and update your profile as you discover more about yourself and your ambitions change. As well as keeping your profile up-to-date you can use the CV builder to create that essential document to promote yourself with future employers or trainers.
Xello will also help you plan your path after Y11. Use the Explore Options link to see what is available.
Apprenticeship Websites
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Careers in the Sixth Form
The focus in the Sixth Form very quickly moves into options after leaving school. By the Spring Term of Year 12, the students are started on researching options and given information to help them do this. By November of Year 13 many will have completed a UCAS application, for university, and many others will be looking at apprenticeships and other employment opportunities.
Theses are the key items in the Sixth Form Careers programme
- Individual guidance through one-to-one interviews and drop-is available at any time for every student
- Small group online workshops with former students with a focus on those who have taken a non-university pathway, though not exclusively so
- Optional apprenticeship workshop – what are they, how do I get one?
- Optional “Why go to University?” workshop
- Job shadowing for one or two weeks supported by the tutorial programme and assemblies
- Opportunity to attend the National School and College Leavers’ show with a focus on employers and apprenticeships
- Opportunity to attend a UCAS conference at a local university
- Guidance on applications to apprenticeships and university – mini-conference and tutorial programme
- Research for post-18 education, apprenticeships and training through Unifrog
- careers fayre with over 40 training providers and colleges attending
- work placements for students studying BTEC programmes in Engineering and Health and Social Care
- opportunity to develop soft skills through the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award
Unifrog:
https://www.unifrog.org/. Unifrog is a complete destinations platform with numerous tools and features to support students’ post-18 applications, including allowing students to search for university courses and apprenticeships, and providing a way of recording key soft skills. Logins for Unifrog will have been sent in emails to students’ school accounts. If they have forgotten their password then they can be reset via the login pages on the Unifrog website.
UCAS:
https://www.ucas.com/. UCAS is the service that students use to apply, manage and track their applications for higher education courses in the UK. Students are shown how to login (and link their applications to the school) and make their applications in the summer of Year 12 before submitting their applications in the autumn term in Year 13.
Information for Employers, Colleges & Trainers
If you are a training organisation, employer, a UTC, HE or FE college and you would like to visit our school to meet our students then this would usually be as part of our careers fair which takes place late November/early December each year.
Please contact the Careers Officer, Mrs Nicki Robinson: nr@southbromsgrove.worcs.sch.uk
