In this section you'll find links to sites that provide careers information and advice for your child.
ASC (Advice Support Careers) Careers Advice & Course Guidance
For practical help on careers and course planning:
The College offers a "drop-in" sessions with a Careers Adviser for quick queries and you can arrange a longer appointment (usually an hour), if you need specialist Careers Advice in more detail. Contact ASC on (0191) 375 4400 for details.
- options and what to do next
- choice of course and career
- job search
- application and interview preparation for work and higher education
Connexions
Connexions brings together a full range of youth support services so that young people aged 13-19 can overcome barriers to their education, training and employment opportunities. Personal advisers, through a network of 47 partnerships across England, will deliver tailor-made advice and guidance to young people on a full range of issues from careers guidance to finance, housing and health. You can find out more about Connexions and their guide for Year 11 students by clicking here.
It's Your Choice
It's Your Choice is designed as a workbook for Year 10 or 11 students. It provides educational and careers guidance for students facing decisions about whether to embark on further education or move into the world of training and work; and it outlines the full range of options open to them. This is an ideal website to direct your child to so that they can have a look at the options available for themselves, click here to go to the website.
Which Way Now?
Which Way Now? is designed as a workbook which leads Year 9 students through all the stages of making their option choices at age 14. Most sections contain exercises called action points to help students relate the information to their own thoughts. This is another ideal website to direct your child to so that they can have a look at the options available for themselves, click here for details.