Using Careerpilot to support personal guidance sessions
Careerpilot is a go-to careers resource, used by many careers advisers in schools and colleges to support effective personal guidance.
The Careerpilot website is built around three stages of career decision making:
- Start with you - includes activities to explore careers and pathways to suit subject interests, strengths and values, skills and personality type
- Explore your options - includes information on all pathways, jobs, course and apprenticeship searches
- Plan your next steps - with tools to support setting actions and moving forward with plans
The Careerpilot platform can be used by Careers Advisers to support students at each stage of the personal guidance process, from using the student's Career Tools report as part of the pre-guidance planning, to supporting exploration of careers ideas, LMI and pathway options as part of the one-to-one session, and then recording and sharing actions in the Careerpilot Reporting Zone as a guidance follow up.
Using the Reporting Zone to support pre guidance planning
When students register and log in to use Careerpilot they can tag any jobs, courses or providers they are interested in to save them to their Career Tools. Also the results of many activities they complete on Careerpilot, including the skills profile and job sector quiz, will also be saved to their Career Tools. This creates data in the Reporting Zone that you can view with your admin log in. Ahead of any career guidance session, you can run use this data, along with individual student's Career Tools reports to view student's interests and choices to prepare for guidance.
Find out more about viewing student's data and reports in the Reporting Zone.
Careerpilot tools and activities to support exploration in one-to-one guidance sessions
There are a range of starting points for exploring interests, strengths and skills and related courses and jobs as part of a guidance session.
First ensure students have registered or logged in to their Careerpilot account before they begin.
The Job Sector Quiz - is a simple, visual job quiz, that asks students to select things that they would like from a job to be matched with job sectors that may suit them to explore further.
Strengths & Values - allows students to choose a starting point that is important to them, based on their personal values, motivations and strengths and provides suggestions for job sectors, courses and careers to explore further.
Start with a Subject - supports students to explore courses, apprenticeships and careers related to their favourite subject.
Skills Profile - provides a simple skills quiz to help students to identify where they have been building skills through activities in and out of school.
Exploring options and LMI on Careerpilot
There is up-to-date information on Careerpilot about the different choices at 14, 16 and 18, including and a helpful Qualification ladder to explain the levels and study options. Students can search for degree courses and apprenticeship vacancies on the Course Search page. They can also find local education providers.
In the Jobs Section, students can find information and LMI (including the number of people working in the job by region, predicted job growth over next 3 years and live job vacancies), on over 900 different job profiles and can compare them using the Careerometer. Students can they tag and save any job sectors they are interested in to their Career Tools.
Choose from hundreds of Video Stories to share videos of people talking about different jobs and courses including videos to help students to get career-ready.
Please note that job profiles are drawn from the National Careers Service and LMI from LMI for All.
Career Guides for Advisers
The team of qualified Career Advisers at Careerpilot has put together a set of Career Guides for some popular careers in law, dentistry and veterinary medicine.
Each guide shows information about routes into each career, with Labour Market Information, advice and useful links.
The Guides can be shared with students or the information used to inform your career guidance practice so you can provide the latest information to students.
You will need to log in with your Careerpilot admin log in to access these resources. Find out how to set this up here.
Write Adviser comments into your students' Careerpilot report as a follow up to guidance
Ensure you are logged in to Careerpilot with your admin password and you will be able to access reports by individual in the Reporting Zone.
Click on View full report/Add comments to access a student's report.
Add actions agreed with the student and write up your comments and next steps in the Adviser Comments section. You can add internal and external links to your write up to make it easy for students to find any online pages that may support them beyond the guidance session.
Find out more about viewing student's data and reports in the Reporting Zone.
Using the Pathway Planner triage tool to support allocation of personal guidance at three levels.
The Careerpilot Pathway Planner (PP) is a model and online tool, which provide effective, efficient and targeted personal guidance to meet the individual needs of young people, using triage and a whole-school, integrated approach.
1. One-hour lesson - explore options, complete the Pathway Planner, students receive a RAG readiness score.
2. Use data reports to allocate career guidance at three levels - book sessions on the site
3. Deliver guidance and track how your student's needs are being met and show how your support is helping them be well-prepared for their next step
Contact us at careerpilot@bath.ac.uk to get set up to use the Pathway Planner in your school.
