1. Y10: Using Careerpilot to help plan for Work Experience
One place for all your careers information.
Y10:
Using Careerpilot to help plan for Work Experience
Introduction slide
Careerpilot can answer all your career questions

2. What is it? One place 11-19 year olds All the choices Decision tools
350,000+ users in
97% of users found the site useful
100s of positive quotes
“At first I was unsure on what I wanted to do after school but Careerpilot has enlightened me and helped reassure me.”
“It has made me re think my options and once where I thought university was a no go, I am now looking at this.”
Explain that Careerpilot is a free website used across the South of England. Helping students to find out about all of their career options. Important for finding out more about jobs and courses & it support when making key decisions like choosing work experience or post 16 and post 18 options.

3. What did these celebs do before becoming famous?
Worked in GAP
Roof thatcher
Blogger 25M followers
Hip Hop singer
Check
in person at Manchester airport
Joe Sugg
Kanye West
Data shows you are likely to have 10 different jobs by the time you are 42!
Actress Corrie, Our Girl
Quick starter activity to show that you are likely do a range of different jobs in your lifetime. Work experience help students to find out what work is like and to try out something which interests them.
Ask students if they know who each celebrity is, what they do and what they used to do.
Joe Sugg Thatcher to Blogger
Kanye West – worked in GAP as a sales asst. /
Michelle Keegan – Check in person at Manchester Airport
Michelle Kegan

4. What will you get out of Work Experience?
Find out what working life is like
Helps you explore a type of career you might like
It can build your self-confidence
Potentially earn some money (e.g. part time work)
You will learn more skills
Ask students why they think WEX is important – show them the possible answers – there may be others that haven’t been displayed on the slide
Make useful contacts for the future

5. Where will you start exploring your future study and career?
Highlights
19 Job sectors, 100s profiles
Where will you start exploring your future study and career?
Different starting points
These are some of the highlights of Careerpilot that might be useful to Y10 students including a section about work experience in a job or career.
Detailed information on range of pathways, section on WEX HERE

6. But wait, there’s more… Sign in/Register to save your choices
Today you will do these activities
Explain that the website can be used to save their choices – they can bookmark pages and choices to come back to later. They can record their skills and jobs that they are interested in and save them in Career Tools and after work experience record what they did.
Soon they will do Skills Map and select some Job sectors.

7. Information on work experience
Explain that the website can be used to save their choices – they can bookmark pages and choices to come back to later. They can record their skills and jobs that they are interested in and save them in Career Tools and after work experience record what they did.
Soon they will do Skills Map and select some Job sectors.

8. If an employer asks, “What skills do you have?”, what would you say?
Get you answers ready with the Skills Bank.
Skills Map:
They do quiz, see results, add their own examples and when they apply for work experience or a job/course they can use their examples in the Skills Bank

9. Do you know what job you might like to do?
To get ideas for work experience of the future: They can explore job sectors – students can look at jobs in different sectors or look at jobs that are linked to school subjects or take the job sector quiz if they are unsure what they want to do.

10. Shows the animal job sector and the 3 different sub sector within this sector – animal, agriculture and environmental jobs

11. This shows the animal sector and the different jobs within that sector where students can find out more detail about individual jobs

12. They can find out lots of information about the job and, if they have done the skills map, compare their skills with those required by the job.

13. Career Tools linked to Reporting Zone
A reminder that each of their choices and results are saved within their Career Tools (as long as they register on the site)

14. If you have registered before, sign in
The first thing the students should do is register or sign if they have used before, then they can save all your choices as they use the site and see them in a report.
Note to person delivering this session: It is really important that students get back to their previous record if they have already registered before. If they can’t remember what they used you can check it in the Reporting Zone by searching for them in Users. Is they can remember the they used then they can do ‘Forgotten Password’.
ALL STUDENTS SHOULD BE REMINDER TO REMEMBER THEIR PASSWORD AS THEY WILL BE COMING BACK TO CAREERPILOT

15. Students can work through the suggested activities for planning WEX or the Y10 activities. If there is time they could do a 5 minute general explore of the site first but try and get the set tasks done as this will provide information in the reports which can be accessed in the Reporting Zone.

16. 4 suggested activities to get you started
Keep bookmarking your choices
There are 4 activities to help with planning for WEX

17. Did anybody find a job that earns more than £100,000 a year?
Who explored?
Did anybody find a job that earns more than £100,000 a year?
Hands up who is keen on? as on slide.
Pilots can earn up to 140,000 a year when experienced.
Could also ask how much does a teacher earn?

18. Did anyone score 100% on one of the skills?
When you come back from WEX add a record to your Skills Bank
Did anyone score 100% on one of the skills?
Ask the students if anyone scored100%, go through each skill and have a show of hands? Have a discussion about what they found out when they looked at the skills required for different jobs and their own skills if there is time. Remind them when they come back they should log on and add an entry to the Skill Map about Work experience.

19. Report moves up each year
Just in case they haven’t seen the report show it and explain that is created once the career tools have been completed – moves up with them each year in school – must remember password to see it again and every year!
Report moves up each year

20. Tell your family about Careerpilot and also the Parent Zone so they can help you
Worth mentioning that they can show Careerpilot and their report to parents and that there is also a Parent Zone

21. Keep using Careerpilot, bookmarking and reviewing your choices
REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD!
Keep using Careerpilot, bookmarking and reviewing your choices
Careerpilot can help you until you are 21
Careerpilot.org.uk