CEIAG - Personal Guidance

The term ‘career guidance’ is used by both Gatsby and the Careers Strategy to describe the full range of career-related interventions which support young people to make choices and to develop their career thinking. ‘’

Personal guidance describes the one-to-one interactions which take place between a careers adviser and a young person. At Coombe Boys' School we spend a lot of time ensuring that ALL students in Yr 11 and 13 have access to a careers adviser who can provide personalised advice in regard to future pathways.

Why is Personal Guidance so Important?

Personal guidance is the provision of guidance interviews to young people in secondary education, and is one component of the Gatsby Benchmarks, which constitute a coherent and comprehensive approach to careers guidance. Access this report to understand potential return on investment (ROI) of personal guidance
Providing structured personal guidance time within the school enables students to focus on their future dreams and to set goals to achieve them.
Research shows that students benefit from conversations with familiar and trusted adults who can challenge and support them.
Access to independent and impartial professional careers guidance is strongly valued by students and parents and is a recurring feature of good provision.
Personal guidance helps students to consolidate and reflect upon their vocational identity, career decision making and self-efficacy. It is a focal point for making sense of the vital ingredients in the careers programme including encounters with employers and higher education, experiences of workplaces and career learning in subjects

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