LASALS CAREER SERVICE
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
“Dreams are extremely important.
You can't do it unless you imagine it."
- George Lucas
Hello and welcome to the LASALS careers service page!
Watch the video on the left and meet Dan, our Careers Leader. He will tell you all about Careers Planning.
Here at LASALS we offer careers information, advice and guidance from qualified and experienced advisers. Regardless of your age, circumstances or professional standing, you can access free careers advice and information, helping you to make informed choices and decisions regarding your future career pathways and progression.
Whether this means employment, training or further education, we can help you to realise your potential, enabling you to follow a pathway leading to new and exciting opportunities. We can also discuss your employability needs and help you to access a range of opportunities, including courses from our Employment Skills Programme.
All LASALS learners are entitled to access the LASALS career services for impartial careers related information, advice and guidance. We would also like to hear from people looking to return to learning as well as those considering enrolment onto LASALS courses.
We are dedicated to delivering a quality service and have recruited a careers leader to ensure we keep up to date with current standards of practice and trends in employment and education and that we keep improving on what we are doing to support learners. We are a Matrix accredited information, advice and guidance provider, so it’s not just us that thinks we’re getting it right!
We hope to update this page with new links and information around careers, events and providers regularly, so keeping checking for news and developments. In the meantime, there are a couple of links below to introduce you to careers and employment that you may want to check out.
Thank you for taking the time to get this far! We hope to hear from you some time in the future.
Dan Kilgariff
Careers Leader, LASALS
For further information or to book an online, telephone or face-to-face appointment with an adviser
please call 0116 4541900 or email dkilgariff@leicesterlearns.ac.uk
Resources
We have complied a list of useful links and resources:
National Careers Service - Click here
The main gov website for everything careers related. Complete a skills assessment, explore different careers and find advice.
Futures - Click here to find out more
The National Careers Service provider for Leicester is called Futures and their office can be found at 80-82 Charles Street, Leicester, LE1 1FB. They are a well-established local provider of career advice and support adults with choosing careers and looking for employment.
The National Careers Service provider for Leicester is called Futures and their office can be found at 80-82 Charles Street, Leicester, LE1 1FB. They are a well-established local provider of career advice and support adults with choosing careers and looking for employment.
UCAS - Click here to find out more
Connecting people to University, post Uni studies including teacher training, apprenticeships & internships. Find all the information for your next step.
Connecting people to University, post Uni studies including teacher training, apprenticeships & internships. Find all the information for your next step.
Leicester Employment Hub - Click here to find out more
A local provider of employment and apprenticeship related services
A local provider of employment and apprenticeship related services
QualHub - Click here to find out more
The main national web-based resource for all NCFE & CACHE branded qualifications.
UK ENIC - Click here to find out more
The UK National Information Centre for the recognition and evaluation of international qualifications and skills
A national provider who can tell you what your overseas qualifications are equal to in the UK (fees apply)
icould - Click here to Learn more!
Although targeted towards secondary school students this is still a useful resource for adults. It has hundreds of videos of people in employment talking all about their jobs, what their duties are, what their working environment is like and how they got into their careers. It covers numerous jobs across more than 30 employment sectors. It also has a Buzz Quiz which is really quick and is all about you, so there’s no wrong answers for a start! It can help you to learn more about your strengths, better understand how others may see you & explore subjects or careers that may suit your animal personality type. I completed the test myself and I am a Seal, which looking at it seems to fit me being a careers adviser perfectly.
BBC Sounds - Life Hacks
Looking for careers advice? Vick and Katie are here to help.
This BBC Sounds podcast discusses all things from side hustles, work experience, workplace wellbeing, CVs and much more in 177 episodes so far! Have a listen here.