KS4 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

Personality Profile

In the Personality Quiz you answer a series of quick questions about your feelings, thoughts, and behaviours, giving answers on a scale from one to five. Your results give you a frog-inspired personality type, and the chance to explore the careers and subjects most commonly associated with it.

Remember, any personality type can enjoy and excel at any job or subject they choose - the Personality profile is simply a great tool for you to start thinking about yourselves, and about what you want to do.

Work Environments Profile

Work environments describe what life at work will be like, from the setting (like outside or inside), to the activities (like public speaking or analysing data), to the situations you'll find yourself in (like managing people or dealing with customers).

It's possible to do the same career in different types of working environments - for example, some businesses allow employees to work from home every day, whereas others require time in the office. The Work environments profile matches careers based on their most common working environment.

Skills Profile

The Skills profile gets you to self-evaluate your level in 22 different skills by considering specific real-life scenarios, and shows you the careers and subjects which might suit your abilities and potential.

• See how you score and compare to others in your age group on some of the measurable skills

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

• Share your results with your teachers and careers adviser

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 – the Interests profile is simply a tool to help you start thinking about what you want to do.

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
   

Webinars

The Webinars tool lets you view discussions and tutorials from universities, employers, and subject experts, all hosted by and exclusive to Unifrog.

• You can sign up to Upcoming webinars.

• You can search for and view Past webinars.

• You can make a list of your favourite webinars so you can easily find them again.

Read, Watch, Listen

The Read, Watch, Listen tool is full of resources to expand your’ knowledge in things you're interested in: from apps to articles, music to podcasts, and videos to social media accounts.

The Read, Watch, Listen tool is a curated library of resources to broaden and deepen your knowledge about your interests. For example, if you are interested in journalism, you can find relevant things to read, watch, and listen to – like a Ted Talk by a journalist on what it means to work in the field. 

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

Apprenticeships

The Apprenticeships shortlisting tool helps students find apprenticeships, traineeships, degree apprenticeships, and school leaver programmes. 

You can look for vacancies based on things like their location and standard, the level of qualification you’ll receive, and more.

College/Sixth Form

A tool that allows you to search,  filter and shortlist local colleges/sixth forms and the courses they offer.

CV/Resume

 CV (sometimes referred to as a resumé) is a summary (normally one page) of your work experience, education, and skills, which you show to a potential employer. It’s a way of marketing yourself to someone to persuade them to give you a job. 

One important tip is to tailor your CV to every new role you apply for, editing it to show how you meet the specific requirements for each role. 

You can use Unifrog’s CV / Resumé tool to: 

• create a CV, and easily tweak it every time you apply for a new role

• get feedback from teachers on your CV

Writing Tool

You can use the Writing tool to create and edit any writing for use in their applications, such as:

• Cover letters

• Exemplar work

• Supplemental essays

• Personal statements for entry into a sixth form

The tool is super useful because: 

• You will see best practice guidance specific to the type of writing they are doing and have all their extra pieces of writing in one place

• Teachers can easily make edits and give feedback and can see all the writing items in one place.