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Summer Term 2020 - Virtual Insight into Careers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer Term 2020 - Virtual Insight into Careers Talks

Our Virtual Insight into Careers Talks cover a range of interesting careers from a host of fascinating people and can be listened to as a Zoom Webinar or as a pre-recording. Webinars can be booked through the Box Office. Recordings of webinars will also be available on this page after the event. Scheduled talks for this term are:

Summer Term 2020 - Speakers

• Friday 1st May - A day in the life of a Premiership Rugby Player
• Thursday 14th May - A career in Engineering 
• Thursday 4th June - Working in Disaster Relief - Webinar
• Thursday 11th June - A career in Music - Webinar
• Thursday 18th June - Make your LinkedIn Profile Work for You - Webinar
• Thursday 2nd July - A career as a Nutritional Therapist

Spring Term 2020 - Speakers

Please click on the careers in bold for further information:

• Thursday 9th January - A career as a pilot
• Thursday  23rd January - A career in Film
• Thursday 6th February - A career in Art
• Tuesday 3rd March - A career as an Author

Autumn Term 2019 - Speakers

• Thursday 21st November - A career in the Army
• Thursday 10th October - A career in law
• Thursday 26th September - A career in nursing
• Thursday 12th September - A career in finance

Pick of the Week 

Pick of the week is packed full of useful resources including apprenticeship and higher education links and is sent to parents and students every other week from the Careers Office. 

 

 

Careers drop-in

The Careers Drop-In is open every Tuesday from 3.55pm to 4.55pm (Period 7) in the Careers Office. Anybody wishing to have an informal discussions with Ms Sims, please just turn up! It may be particularly useful for those in Year 9 making decisions about their GCSE options or for Year 12 students looking at work experience options.

Careers and Work Related Learning

Students at Gordon’s School can expect a wide variety of activities to enhance their Careers and Work Related Education. There are fortnightly careers talks and careers drop-in, appointments with our independent Careers Adviser, CV workshops, careers fairs and many other activities. Careers education starts in Year 7, and continues until students leave us in Year 13. Year 12 students also have the opportunity to complete work experience in the last week of the Summer Term.

To find out which career best suits your personality, free psychological and careers tests are available through 123test.com. Once you've found it, please click on one of the widgets below for Labour Market Information (LMI) on that career.

Students, parents, teachers and employers may also access further information and arrange appointments by contacting the Careers Lead directly.  The Careers Lead is in school during the week and can provide tailored information, advice and guidance relating to the post-16 options available to students. To book an appointment to see the Careers Lead, please telephone or email Ms Sims directly using the contact details below. 

MEASURING AND ACCESSING THE CAREERS PROGRAMME ON STUDENTS

Gordon's measures and accesses its careers programme against the Gatsby Benchmarks. The impact is accessed through student and parent feedback as well as a feedback card. The programme is conducted in relation to the school's equal opportunities policy, work experience policy, external visits policy and other relevant policies. 

Community/Employer gateway - Can you help? 

Can you help to maximise our students’ contribution to the wellbeing of our community by providing them with work experience and/or becoming involved with careers guidance?

We are looking for employers and businesses in every sector, that can engage with our students and impart their skills and knowledge as well as opening their eyes to career opportunities.

There are a number of ways in which you can help our students – many of them taking just one hour of your time periodically (please see below).

If you would like to be involved with the careers programme at Gordon’s or know someone at your workplace who could be of any assistance please complete the form below.

 

Careers Lead: Ms Caroline Sims - csims@gordons.school - 01276 858084 x 2403
Trustee Link Governor for Careers: Mr Alan McClafferty - amclafferty@gordons.school
Foundation Link Governor for Careers: Mrs Florence Everett - tbc 

LATEST NEWSLETTER

The Spring Term edition of the Careers Newsletter is out now! Packed with handy tips; advice and interesting information on universities offering webinars and virtual tours, it’s well worth a read. Articles include one with Gordonian Alex Jaksic who now works as a Workforce Analytics Consultant for Deloitte; changes to the legal system and becoming a civil servant. Click on the image to view. For previous Careers Newsletters, please click here. 

               

Investor in Careers Award

The Quality in Careers Standard is designed as a development and external assessment framework for accrediting the highest quality CEIAG provision by education providers. Investor in Careers supports educational providers to meet the National Quality in Careers Standard through our unique 3 stage approach which focuses on Commitment, Organisation, Delivery and Evaluation. Our approach to meeting the national Standards supports schools to deliver effective CEIAG, meet statutory and Ofsted inspection requirements and improve their student’s life chances.

For more information about this award, please click here.

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