Petroc's Careers Policy

Careers Policy - What do FE Academic Staff Need to Know?

• Whole College Approach to Careers Guidance

Petroc has adopted a whole college approach to careers guidance. In practise this mean that any staff being presented with a careers query by a student should be able to either deal with that enquiry, or if not, know where to refer the student. This training will give you the skills to do this. 

• Gatsby Benchmarks

Although it is unlikely that you will need to know these in detail, it will be important for you to know what they are. These are covered later in the training.

• Careers Knowledge

It is not expected that you become careers experts. In fact, only staff trained to level 6 in careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG)  should be providing careers advice and guidance to students.  However, you should have the knowledge to be able to signpost a student to the resource that best suits their careers needs. This could be paper-based, digital or a member of staff. Again, this training will cover this.

• Parents/Carers

Talking to parents/carers of Petroc students can be a fairly common occurrence (depending upon your job role). Being able to support them with their careers-related queries, or providing them with careers information so they can support their young person, is important. This training will take you through how to sign-post parents/carers to relevant careers information or support.

• Employers/Employees

If you come into contact with employers or employees as part of your job, and they want to work with the college in some way such as advertising a vacancy, offer a tour of their premises, deliver a presentation or offer work experience; then you will need to know who to direct them to.

• Key Careers Contacts

Knowing to whom to refer students, parents or employers to will be important, and you will know this by the end of this training.

Read the Petroc's Careers Policy in full.