Schools/colleges - how to subscribe if you don't have free access
Four Zones—to meet the career needs of different audiences
Careerpilot is an award-winning, one-stop careers website for students, parents and teachers. Careerpilot can be used by students from Year 7 – 13 in schools and colleges.
Careerpilot aims to help students develop career skills so they can manage their career decisions as they go through life. We do this through showing students the three-stages they can always follow whenever they make a careers decision.
- Start with you
- Explore your options
- Plan your next step
The site includes tools students can use at every stage e.g job sector match quiz, skills profile, etc. The site includes information and advice on all progression pathways and on 900+ job profiles, which include national and regional Labour Market Information.
Career Tools enable students to personalise their choices, save quiz results and build their report - which moves up annually and can be 'ported' to another provider.
Students can access their account until they are 20.
For 23-24 the Pathway Planner will be included in the Careerpilot subscription package for funded schools and for any mainstream school paying their own subscriptions
In 2023 - 24, the Pathway Planner triage tool, which assess the career guidance needs of your students, will be included in all subscriptions if you are a school that is paying your own subscriptions.
Free access to Careerpilot and the Pathway Planner is available in many areas in the South.
If you are a state secondary school in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Swindon or Berkshire then access to all 4 zones of Careerpilot and the Pathway Planner will be free.
The reason the site is free-to-use in this region is because a number of universities, Uni Connect projects and Careers Hubs pay subscriptions to fund this.
Outside this area your school/college can purchase an annual subscription which will be for Careerpilot and the Pathway Planner at a cost of £700 for 23-24.
Colleges:
If you are a further education college in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, then access to all 4 zones of Careerpilot and the Pathway Planner will be free.
If you are a further education college in Swindon or Berkshire then the four zones of Careerpilot will be free but you will need to pay an annual subscription of £400 to access the Pathway Planner.
The reason the site is free-to-use in this region is because a number of universities, Uni Connect projects and Careers Hubs pay subscriptions to fund this.
Outside these areas your college can purchase an annual subscription which will be for Careerpilot and the Pathway Planner at a cost of £1000 per annum.
Costs to a school of subscribing:
If you are a school outside the free access area you can pay your own annual subscriptions which will give access to all 4 Careerpilot Zones - including the Reporting and Adviser Zone Members' Area and now also the Pathway Planner triage.
In 2023-24 the subscriptions will be £700 per annum (£250 for special schools without the Pathway Planner or £350, with the Pathway Planner), to use with as many students from Y7 - Y13 as you like. Please note schools in a Trust or Consortium will count as individual schools for subscriptions but a group discount may be available.
If you are a college interested in subscribing and are outside the free access area then the cost of access to the four zones of Careerpilot and the Pathway planner will be £1000 in 23-24.
Free access to the Student and Parent Zones is available across the UK
Your students can access all the information in the Student Zone for free. However, if you are a subscriber, students will be able to add themselves to your school or college at registration (your provider's name will be added to the drop-down list) and all the data they generate as they build their Career Tools report will be available for you to view in the Reporting Zone. Subscribers also have access to all the amazing resources in the Adviser Zone e.g. five career lessons for every year group, Hot Job posters and activities, etc. Some resources are free access but most need a Careerpilot admin password.
In 23-24, a subscription will also include the Pathway Planner triage tool and model, developed through a bid to the Careers and Enterprise Company to support Gatsby 3 and 8.
Parents have free access to the Parent Zone - which has answers to questions parents are frequently asking.
What does a school get for their subscription?
Access to all the tools and resources available in the 4 Zones and the Pathway Planner triage tool
- Your school will be added to the list so that when your students register they can add themselves to your school/ college and then you will be able to see all data and reports generated when they use the Career Tools - useful in supporting students to effective progression and to meet Gatsby.
- All staff and career guidance advisers with access can add a record of their report, planned actions and career conversations to a student's account - this can be viewed by the student and any staff member with access to that student- so they can support students on the career journey.
- The full Career Tools report and adviser/staff comments can be downloaded and sent to a parents/tutor.
- With access to the Pathway Planner you can assess the guidance needs of your students, at three levels, make bookings in the system, track destination pathways and evidence how your interventions have supported student's progression
- Access to all our training webinars
- Access careers resources through the Adviser Zone Members' Area that will help with Gatsby - including subject specific resources, 5 week careers programmes for every year group, 20 minute activities to use in tutor time and Hot Jobs posters and images.
- Access to the Super User process- schools/colleges can become Super Users by meeting 3 criteria to unlock extra resources and preferential access to live career webinars for parents e.g. choices at 16, 18, etc.
- You become part of the Careerpilot user group and can contribute to how the site should be developed.
How can I subscribe to Careerpilot?
Get in touch with the Careerpilot Helpline careerpilot@bath.ac.uk, which operates every day in term time between 9am and 3pm or email s.lewis3@bath.ac.uk.
