Careers advice and guidance is important in Shoeburyness High School. We fully support all students with a robust process to allow them to plan their futures. With support from a Careers Leader and independent Careers Adviser we are able to offer a range of fully funded careers programmes, workshops and mock interviews. Our curriculum also fully supports careers with individual departments offering action packed lessons based on career choices. In addition to this, during period one, we have a full programme of learning activities, linked to future aspirations, for each year group. 

Good quality careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) has never been more important. Recent studies highlight that careers talks and employer engagement allows students to achieve career goals and motivate them to work harder to reach their full potential.

We are committed to providing the very best in careers education and using the eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance we measure our strengths and areas for development. 

The eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance:

• A stable careers programme
• Learning from career and labour market information
• Addressing the needs of each pupil
• Linking curriculum learning to careers
• Encounters with employers and employees
• Experiences of workplaces
• Encounters with further and higher education
• Personal guidance

We welcome feedback and meetings with parents and students at open evenings and options evenings to offer advice and guidance for future career choices.

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At Shoeburyness High School we believe it is very important to assess the impact of our careers programme on our students.  We do this in a number a of ways: 

We identify and analyse the destinations of our Year 11 and 13 students, taking into account their prior attainment.  For Year 11 students, we record all pathways including:

• Level 2 courses
• Level 2 apprenticeships
• Level 3 courses
• Level 3 apprenticeships

We track students for three years from the end of Year 11, identifying and reviewing where students leave or change courses/apprenticeships.

For Year 13 students we identify and analyse whether students:

• go onto higher education and the range of courses being studied and the universities/colleges being attended
• go onto an apprenticeship and whether it is at Intermediate, Advanced or Higher level

We are very keen to get the views of students on the Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) they received during their five or seven years at Shoeburyness High School.  Using the Unifrog platform, we ask all Year 11 and 13 students and our student voice to complete a survey to find out their views on individual elements of the CEIAG programme. 

We value the views of parents on how well we have helped them to support their child or children make rational informed career decisions.  This is done using a survey at parents’ evening and applications evening.

• https://www.unifrog.org/student   Unifrog is a complete destinations platform that allows students to search for opportunities and make applications for their next steps.
• Southend Careers Service
• UCAS PROGRESS Search and apply for Sixth Form and College courses
• UCAS Research all available University courses in the UK
• NATIONAL CAREERS SERVICE Advice on choosing or changing career
• APPLY TO UNI University application advice for parents
• RATE MY APPRENTICESHIP Search for apprenticeships
• SUCCESS AT SCHOOL 16+ Apprenticeships advice
• DIRECTIONS Impartial careers guidance
• BRIGHT NETWORK Connecting 190,000+ bright minds with 300+ leading employers
• CREATIVE CAREERS
  Bringing together careers information and opportunities from creative organisations
• GET MY FIRST JOB Your first steps into the world of work
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/careers 
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Please refer to the schools data on the following website by clicking here

The widget can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations to support the process of identifying potential careers.

The Careerometer widget provides access to a selection of headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects.

The data is organised by occupation: click on the squared box,  simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you.