Careers - Parent/Carer Area

We recognise the vital role that parents, carers and families play in helping students navigate decisions about their future. We encourage regular positive discussions at home to help guide your child toward a fulfilling future. These discussions do not have to be about setting a future pathway, but exploring your child's strengths, interests and being open to opportunities.

Some practical ways that families can support young people with careers and employability are:

Explore Favourite Subjects: Discuss which subjects they enjoy most and explore why those areas appeal to them.

Recognize Classroom Skills: Help them identify transferable skills developed at school, such as communication, initiative and teamwork.

Value beyond the classroom: Connect skills like resilience, discipline, and timekeeping to their hobbies, clubs, and sports.

Encourage Future Ambitions: Ask open questions about their interests and aspirations for the future.

Discover Pathways Together: Research potential career sectors and local labor market trends as a family.

Utilize Unifrog: Log into Unifrog together to track achievements, log core skills, and save helpful career guides.

Tap Into Personal Networks: Invite family and friends to share their own career journeys and industry experiences.

Share Your Experiences: Discuss the different jobs you have held and the various roles of people you work alongside.

Explore Post-16 Options (Years 10 & 11): Research educational routes together and attend open events.

As a parent or carer, equipping yourself with up-to-date knowledge will build your confidence to guide your child effectively toward the best path for their future. To help you get started, we have put together a selection of useful guides and external resources below:

Talking Futures - Resources to help parents and carers have constructive careers and education discussions with their child.

West Yorks - Local resources to help you guide your child

Career Pilot - Information about education pathways with some short guidance videos.

Resources that you could use when researching with your child:

National Careers Service - Find information about specific careers e.g. entry requirements, rates of pay, job descriptions etc in the 'job profiles' section. The web site is designed to inspire young people to make more effective skills, career, work and life choices. You can also look at what sort of jobs may suit you.

I Could – Explore different types of jobs, what jobs you could do from different subjects, information about jobs, University, Apprenticeships and much more. There is also a link to the Buzz Quiz, which helps you discover what type of career may match your personality.

Prospects - There is a wide selection of job profiles that give information about the job, what you would do, the pay to expect, how to get in to that job and other similar jobs. Under the Careers advice section, there are some helpful guides such as “Top 7 CV mistakes”. If you create an account, you can also do the quiz to see what sort of careers you may find interesting.

UCAS - Find out about your options after school, college, or sixth form. With lots of information about the routes available to you, to help you decide what to do next. Search for local courses e.g. A Levels, BTECS, Degrees and NVQs.

 Unifrog LMI  ApprenticeshipsPost 11 & 18 Options