Careers - Student Area

During your time at Bingley Grammar School, we strongly encourage you to take part in our Careers Education programme and the wide range of activities designed to help you make informed decisions about your next steps, build essential life skills and prepare you for the world of work.

How to get involved and boost your skills:

Broaden your horizons: Take part in work placements, career workshops, and inspirational talks from guest speakers across various industries.
Build your skill set: Try out a new hobby or join an extra-curricular club—either inside or outside of school.
Make a difference: Get involved in local charity and fundraising projects.
Help show your strengths: Work towards your LORIC certificates (Leadership, Organisation, Resilience, Initiative, and Communication).

Useful Websites:

We know there is a huge amount of career information out there, and finding the right path can feel overwhelming! To help you explore different industries, study routes, and job market trends, the websites below may help. Don't forget, you can also log into your Unifrog account anytime to research your options.

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.

Direct.Gov – The government website has an extensive section on employment covering things such as vacancies, the law on minimum wage, tax payments when you work etc.

West Yorks Combined Authority - Local information about skills, jobs and employment.

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