Unifrog is an excellent website that we subscribe to full of helpful advice and guidance about careers. To access Unifrog, pupils should log in with their school email address and follow the Reset Password/Resend Welcome Email link. Once logged in, a good starting place is to scroll down to the Personality and Interests Profiles and take the quizzes. The Careers Library has information on many different job roles and the skills required, whilst the Subjects Library has two useful sections when thinking about options: In a Nutshell lists relevant GCSEs and courses for a particular subject area, whilst Geek Out has resources to explore the subject further. Pupils can favour different careers and subjects which will be saved to their profile for future reference. 

Please also use the Bay House Careers site for more information, together with a video explaining how Unifrog can support the Guided Choices process. 

At the moment, few of you will have definite sense of what your future will look like so your choices of subjects should be broad and balanced; keeping you options for the future open. 

However, when you are thinking about careers in the future you may find it helpful to know that:

• employers place considerable emphasis on English and Maths

• employers look for people who are flexible in their approach to work. There is less job security these days, so it helps if you are interested in a wide range of activities rather than one particular job

•  many employers emphasise the importance of transferable skills and behaviours. A group of local employers worked with us on these and helped use to create our Gosport Futures (skills) and we worked across the GFM to identify theGFMway (behaviours).

Most employers say that these personal qualities are decisive factors when they are appointing staff.

It is therefore important that all students:

• do your very best to reach as high a standard as you can in your school subjects over the next two years, especially in English and Mathematics.

• develop those personal and social qualities referred to above.

• approach the next two years at school with interest, confidence and enthusiasm

• take advantage of the advice and practice that is given during Years 10 and 11 to prepare yourself for life after school, for example the writing of letters of application, learning about the world of work, visiting local colleges, firms, youth training schemes, etc.

It is also important to take part in other activities in and out of school such as clubs, trips, Cadets, Scouts, Guides, voluntary work, new hobbies. Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, music, arts, cultural development (e.g. visiting a museum or gallery) and sports of all kinds.