Using Careerpilot to help meet the Gatsby Benchmarks
Careerpilot as part of your whole-school career provision
Careerpilot can be used as part of a stable careers plan across your whole school or college to help support achievement of the Gatsby Benchmarks in your school or college. You can find out more about the Gatsby Benchmarks on the Careers and Enterprise website.
Careerpilot puts the students at the centre of the career programme and provides activities and resources to support schools in delivering effective careers from Year 7-13, with support for the careers leader, career advisers and teaching staff.
The information students build in their Career Tools reports will help career staff, parents and career advisers find out more about what their students are interested in, to help meet their individual needs (Gatsby 3).
If a school/college is embedding Careerpilot across their careers programme then they will be meeting many of the Gatsby Benchmarks.
Download Careerpilot Maps to Gatsby
Using Careerpilot to support learning from careers and labour market information
Students can find up to date information about jobs and the pathways into them on the Careerpilot Jobs page. They can explore job roles related to a subject interest, or to their strengths and values or they can browse job sectors to find out more about an industry sector overall.
Students can then use the job profiles to learn more about a job role, the average salary, predicted job growth and routes in, including qualifications and skills needed. They can view live job vacancies and related videos. They can also search for related courses, providers and apprenticeship vacancies on the Course search page.*
*Careers data is drawn from a range of third-party specialists including the Working Futures dataset, the National Careers Service, Adzuna, The National Apprenticeship Service and Unistats dataset (HESA).
Access careers resources to support meeting the Gatsby benchmarks
Use your admin password to log in to access a range of careers resources to use across your school or college as part of your careers provision:
- 5 weeks of careers lessons with outcomes for every year group help support several of the Gatsby Benchmarks and all mapped to the CDI Framework. The Year 10 lessons have a specific focus on supporting students to get ready for taking part in work experience, preparing students to engage in Modern Work Experience and supporting Gatsby Benchmark 6.
- Quick careers activities (suitable for use in tutor time) supporting Gatsby Benchmark 2 and 4.
- Hot Jobs resources use Labour Market Information (LMI) to support students to learn more about the job role, salary, predicted growth and the routes in, with posters, activities and Hot Job of the Week resources, helping meet Gatsby Benchmark 2.
- Resources for subject teachers, including slides, top tips and posters to make the link from a subject area to related careers, helping to meet Gatsby Benchmark 4.
- Resources for careers advisers to support personal guidance sessions and help meet Gatsby Benchmark 8.
Get set up with an admin password to access Careerpilot careers resources.
The site is free to schools and colleges in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Swindon. You just need to contact us to set up your admin access. Contact us to find out more: careerpilot@bath.ac.uk