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Exploring Your Future Options – Careers Education Unit

Help your students make confident, informed decisions about their next steps in education and employment with this ready-to-teach careers education unit. Perfect for high school students, this resource introduces key ideas around post-secondary options, job markets, future skills, and planning for the unexpected.

✅ What’s Included:
• 7 x Fully Editable PowerPoint Lesson Packs
• 7 x Homework Ideas
• 7 x End-of-Lesson Confidence Checker Assessments
• Video links, practical tasks, reflective questions, and clear learning outcomes
• Teacher notes and mapped to Gatsby Benchmarks, PSHE themes, and careers guidance

📘 Lesson Topics:

1. Choosing a College Major / Degree Subject
2. Understanding Job Markets After School or College
3. Future Skills – What Employers Will Look For
4. The Importance of University Open Days
5. National Apprenticeship Week (NAW)
6. University Clearing + Handling Setbacks (Plan Bs)
7. How to Find a Job & Navigate Recruitment

🎯 Learning Outcomes:
• Explore how to choose a degree or major that suits personal goals and interests
• Understand current and future job markets and how to access relevant career data
• Differentiate between hard and soft skills and their workplace applications
• Learn what to expect at a university open day and how to prepare
• Reflect on apprenticeship pathways and their advantages
• Discover what university clearing involves and why having a plan B is essential
• Understand the job-hunting process and how to write strong applications

🔑 Key Vocabulary:
Degree, UCAS, Entry Requirements, Job Market, Employability, Soft Skills, Apprenticeship, Clearing, Labour Market Information (LMI), CV, Cover Letter, Recruitment

💡 Perfect For:
• High School Careers Classes (Grades 9–12)
• College & Career Readiness Programs
• Drop-Down Days or Advisory Sessions
• Post-16 Pathway Exploration
• Transition Planning Lessons

We sell Complete Careers Units - Take a look at some of them here:
⇨ CAREERS KS3 UNIT
⇨ Careers, Employability Skills + Enterprise Unit
⇨ Careers and Gatsby Benchmarks Quizzes
⇨ Post 16 Options and Careers Lesson
⇨ Careers and Employment Activities and Cardsorts
⇨ Skills and Qualities Careers Quiz
⇨ Careers - Writing a Personal Statement
⇨ Careers - Student Workbook
⇨ Careers - Interview Preparation Lesson

Be Ofsted and DfE PSHE ready with our resources! Product Code: C8/CCB/