KS3 Students

Locker 

Your Locker is a place where you and your teachers/advisor can store anything important. It doesn’t matter what the file type is - things like Word Docs, google sheets, jpegs, pdfs, and URLs all work.

There are two main reasons for you or your teacher/advisor to put something in a your Locker:

1. For safekeeping and to have everything in one place

2. In order to submit things as part of applications (eg via the Common App and Parchment)

Every student’s Locker has a student side, where you can add:

• • Student application items, like their UK Personal Statement, CV / Resumé, Cover Letters

  • General items, like a certificate, or a piece of school work of which they are really proud
     

Every student’s Locker also has a teacher side, where teachers can add:

• • Teacher application items, like Overall References, Predicts, and School reports

  • General items, like Homework, Action Plans and Videos/Websites they want to share with you

  • Interaction items - every time a teacher adds an interaction for a student and then attaches a file or URL to the interaction - the file or URL is saved to your Locker. 

Activities

In any application, whether it be for education, training, or a job, you’ll need to give specific examples of things you’ve done. 

You can use the Activities tool to: 

• record examples of academic and extracurricular activities

• get feedback from teachers on your examples.

Skills

In any application - whether it be for education, training, or a job - you’ll need to show evidence that you have developed skills.

If you’re a student, you can use the Skills tool to:

• Record examples of things you’ve done where you’ve shown a particular skill

• Get feedback from teachers on your examples

• Pull your skill examples into your CV

Interaction

This section shows any interactions you have had in which a teacher, careers advisor, or other staff members have added you.

This may include:

• CPD Lessons

• Employer Encounters

• Career Guidance Sessions

• Workshops

• Assemblies

• Trips

Interest Quiz/Profile

Holland identified six categories of personality, and the careers associated with them. No one's personality fits neatly into just one category - the interests quiz shows how highly you score in each of the six categories, building an overall picture of your interests and linking to the careers and subjects that most closely match your results.

Remember, you can excel in any job or subject you choose to pursue – the Interests profile is simply a tool to help you start thinking about what you want to do.
 

In a nutshell

You can create your Interests profile by first taking a quiz. The profile is based on your results. They can use your profile to:

• Learn more about your interests and the careers associated with them

• Use your results to browse suggested Careers library and Subject library profiles

• Share your results with your teachers and careers advisers
   

How to complete the quiz

• Go to the Student side of your Unifrog homepage, scroll down to Quizzes, and click ‘Start’ on the Interests profile.

• If you haven’t taken the quiz before, you’ll see some guidance at the top on how to think about your answers. You’ll then be given the first question. Consecutive questions will appear as you complete each one. 

• A progress bar will appear at the top showing how much you have left to complete.

• You can go back and change your answers, but you need to complete the quiz in one sitting.

• The quiz should take around 12 minutes to complete. Once you are finished, click ‘Get my results’.

Exploring your results

Once you've completed the quiz, your Interests profile will be populated.

• Your results will show the six interest categories, and your score for each one.

• If you scroll down, you can see your categories in order from top to bottom and you can click ‘Expand’ to read what this means in more detail.

• Scroll back up, and you’ll also see the option to ‘Search the Careers library’ or ‘Search the Subjects library.’

• If you click on one of these, you’ll be taken into the Careers or Subjects library where you’ll see the careers or subjects most commonly linked to your interests, ranked in order with the closest matches at the top.

• You can use the Filter button to narrow down your results by things like career area, subject area, salary, and education requirements.

• Once you’re in the Careers or Subjects library, click any one of your results to ‘Read the profile’, or click the heart button to favourite them – you’ll then find them at the top of both libraries and in your ‘Favourites’ tab. Favouriting profiles will also bring opportunities relevant to you into your ‘What's coming up’ feed at the top of your profile.
   

Careers Library 

The Careers library helps you explore careers across a range of sectors. You can:

• Search the library by keyword, school subject, career sector, competency, subject group, theme, working environment, and personality/interests type

• Filter by subject area, prospects, and education requirements

• Favourite career profiles you like so you can come back to them easily

Subject Library

The Subjects library helps you explore university-level subjects but has lots of practical applications for all students, even those not considering university as a Post-18 option. For example:

• The summary of what it means to study that subject at a higher level will also help students considering an apprenticeship or training programme in the same subject area

• The top 10 most popular subjects students study at school before going on to university will help younger students choose their Level 2 or 3 subjects

• The Geek Out and Recommendations sections are helpful for students writing an essay, EPQ, or independent study project related to that subject area

• The Explore section shows related apprenticeships and FE courses as well as university courses so you can search for opportunities that suit your needs

Know How Library 

The Know-how library is a searchable repository of hundreds of guides for students on topics to do with post-16 and post-18 opportunities, careers, and PSHE, Wellbeing, SEL and Citizenship.

Many of the guides feature videos as well as text. They are all useful and engaging.

You can:

• Search by keyword, by career and subject areas, and by skills

• See guides that are ‘Relevant now’ due to the time of year and your age

• Favourite guides you like so you can come back to them easily