Career resources explained
The Careerpilot Team - who are all are qualified career advisers and ex-teachers, have developed a 5 careers lessons for every year group - Y7 to Y12/13 - which aim to support students in:
- Developing their career skills for life, learning and work;
- Preparing them for the next career decisions they will have to make.
The pack contains all you need to deliver 5 lessons that are relevant to the decisions or exploration the targeted year group needs to be focussed on.
If you haven't got time to deliver all 5 then the first lesson is a great introduction to what students need to do or think about in that specific year.
The career lessons are available free to all schools with a Reporting Zone password.
The Y7-Y10 packs require students to have access to Careerpilot so they can use the wealth of information and tools offered through the site but also to help them build their career report, but lessons 2-4 also have suggested offline activities if is difficult to give students access to a computer. The Y11-Y12/13 lessons will require students to have access to Careerpilot for each of the five lessons.
Students should register and always be signed in when using the site so they can add their choices and results to their Career Tool report. The report moves up annually with them, can be ‘ported’ by them to another provider e.g. a college and is owned by them until they are 20.
Careerpilot can be accessed through pc, tablet or phone.
NB. You will need to log in to Careerpilot with your Member's Admin Access to download these resources.
How the career lessons work
There is a theme for every year group linked to the key exploration or decisions they should be considering in that year:
- Year 7 - Exploring jobs
- Year 8 - Know yourself, know your skills
- Year 9 - Know your KS4 options
- Year 10 - Exploring post 16 options and securing work experience
- Year 11 - Preparing for post 16
- Year 12/13 - Choosing post 18 options and applying
Each lesson has a specific topic that will be covered, with two outcomes that map to the CDI Framework.
Ideally students will complete all five lessons online, using Careerpilot - as a minimum, lesson 1 and 5 require access to Careerpilot, but for Year 7-10, lessons 2-4 include both online and offline activities, if computer access is not available.
The Year 11-12/13 lessons will require students to have access to Careerpilot for each of the five lessons.
The packs have been designed so the sessions can be delivered through a Power Point with notes to explain screens to the teachers. Some of the lessons have been recorded as videos, with a member of the Careerpilot Team virtually delivering the session and providing instruction to the facilitating teacher and the students. The link to the recorded session will be in the Power Point.
All students need is access to careerpilot.org.uk and a paper/pen.
Lessons mapped to CDI Framework, Equalex and the Gatsby Benchmarks
All lessons have been mapped to the CDI Framework with two outcomes per lesson. The lessons support the new Equalex framework for Modern Work Experience by preparing students for work experience and also support schools to help meet a number of the Gatsby Benchmarks.
The Skills Builder Framework
The Year 8 lessons introduce students to the eight essential skills that have been identified as being needed for any job and encourages them to reflect on their own skills strengths using the skill profile.
All of the careers lessons include opportunities for students to practice their listening and speaking skills through the reflection activities. There are accompanying notes for teachers on which skills steps are the focus of the activity with links to the skills framework where appropriate.
These resources are free to Careerpilot users with an admin login.
You can get an admin login if your school/college has completed a Data Sharing Agreement. Any staff member who has been given an admin login for the Reporting Zone also has full access to the Adviser Zone.
You can request access to the Reporting Zone if you are a school or college in one of our funded areas or are in a school outside these areas that is subscribing. Check whether your school is a subscriber.