Getting ahead in your career

... right now!

“Career” – definition

1. (Noun) “The job or series of jobs that you do in your working life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn more money e.g. My career seems to be developing effectively!”

2. (Verb) “To move rapidly and uncontrollably from one place to another e.g. The vehicle careered rapidly down the slope and into the crowd of onlookers, causing mass devastation.”

KS4 Careers – structure reminder

• 10s: Work Experience (Feb)• 11s: Options (Jan)

Both involve• PSHE in several blocks throughout the year• Separate processes (with deadlines)• 1-on-1 support meetings (CRU 10s / MDR 11s)• + workshops for year 10s

Make the most of meetings

• Only 1-2 all year, 20 minutes each• Do prior paperwork in registration (or you will lose

most or all your time on it)• Think before you arrive about – pre-discussed (PSHE / workshop / meeting / this)– questions you want to ask– possibilities / ideas / routes / obstacles– sharing thoughts with parents FIRST– levels / grades / salaries / realism

• BOOK YOURSELF (11s) or wait until told (10s)

Brief pressure reminders

• the decline of the West• the rise in global educational standards• the competitive lower-salary marketplace• no more pensions, worker rights or retirement• barely affordable housing and– healthcare?– education?– food?

But again – your generation is...• the best educated• the most multi-skilled, multi-attentional• adapted to rapid change (technology / social)• harder working than any previous• social media / digital natives• intelligent opportunists• uniquely globally-aware and compassionate• free to choose to compete anywhere worldwide – just

look around you• Young. It’s YOUR time.

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Where will you be, in a week,or a month,

or a year,

in careers terms,

from where you are now?