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Exploring your Pathways
Exploring your Pathways
MOOC
The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) tool is a way to search and apply for (mostly free!) online courses.
MOOCs can take anything from an hour to several months to complete, and they sometimes have flexible start dates and durations. They are usually unlimited by participant numbers, available for open access via the web.
Studying a MOOC will help you understand if you’re genuinely interested in a topic, and learn more about the stuff you’re interested in. If you complete a MOOC, you might choose to talk about it in applications to jobs or university courses, and the knowledge you’ve gained will help you feel more prepared for further study or careers.
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.
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
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
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
Recording what you have done
Recording what you have done
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:
For safekeeping and to have everything in one place
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.
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.
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
Quizzes
Quizzes
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 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.
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
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
Searching for Opportunities
Searching for Opportunities
The UK University shortlisting tool makes it easy to compare courses and universities and decide which ones to apply to.
You can:
Search for course that matches up to 10 subjects at a time
Filter by distance from home, type of course, type of university, and entry requirements
The tool also compares the entry requirements of every course with the grades you’re likely to get to determine whether each course is an aspirational, solid, or safe application for you.
International Universities
Unifrog also has a host of different University shortlisting tools for Universities in other areas outside of the UK.
The Special opportunities shortlisting tool makes it easy to compare different types of support for students’ higher education applications, and decide which ones to apply to.
You can:
Find out about activities like summer schools, residentials, and competitions, and opportunities like contextual offers
Compare one-off and recurring scholarships
Exclude opportunities that aren’t relevant to you (for example those related to a religious affiliation, those for students with top grades, and so on)
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.
The Events tool works by getting to know your interests and creating a calendar of opportunities that suit you. So in order to see events, you’ll need to get using the rest of Unifrog first!
The main way that you will start seeing events relevant to you is by making Shortlists on Unifrog’s shortlisting tools – that’s any of the tools under ‘Searching for opportunities’ on your Unifrog homepage, from searching for apprenticeships in the UK to universities all over the world.
When going through these tools, make sure to hit ‘Save’ at the end to complete them, and the Events tool will show you any upcoming events related to the subjects, institutions, or workplaces you’re interested in.
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