YEAR 9
Year 9 is the time when you take your first steps in shaping your future direction by picking your GCSE options. You should also consider that by the time you start to apply for your first job, over half the jobs that you will be able to choose from, do not even exist yet. Other traditional jobs will have disappeared!
How many shop assistants will there be if all the shops go online?
- Train to become a web shop designer/manager.
Do you think some cleaning jobs will be replaced by Robots?
- Train to become a Robot programmer.
Will parcels be delivered by lorry or drone?
- Train to become a drone flight manager
You need to plan for a fast changing future with lots of exciting opportunities. Therefore, you need to be flexible and adaptable.
Your Next Steps Planning for Your Future
Choosing your options
It is really important that you think carefully about the options you pick in Year 9 as the direction you choose will start to shape the career pathway that you will follow. Have a look here at the options presentation you were shown in lessons . You could also sign up to Career Pilot and take a look at their Options website. You could also start to look a bit further ahead at some of the options after your GCSEs - there is some information here.
Jobs of the future
It is really important to remember that the job you might end up doing may not exist yet! This is esepcially true as robots and AI start to take over a lot of the jobs that in the past, humans would have done. Click here to watch a short video all about 'The changing world', here or here to look at some suggestions for what jobs of the future might be like.
Helpful Links
A range of useful websites and resources to use:
Careersbox
Careersbox is the national careers film library, a free careers resource showing hundreds of real people doing real jobs - https://www.careersbox.co.uk/
Career Pilot
Career Pilot includes expert careers information and tools for 11-19 year olds, all in one place. Explore different job sectors and how you can study and work at the same time – even to university level. Information about vocational qualifications, plus the top 20 apprenticeship vacancies in the South West
CareerRadar
Students can register with CareerRadar using their school email address to undertake a simple psychometric test and explore suggested career pathways.
Gloucestershire County Council
What’s Next? is a booklet that gives Gloucestershire students information and advice about choosing GCSE options, post-16 study, the world of work, and preparing themselves for adulthood.
Designed with the help of students, it takes young people through the choices they have and suggests lots of resources where they can explore these options for themselves. It encourages students to think about what subjects they enjoy, what they're good at and what they might want to do after school.
Click here to download the What's Next booklet.
icould
Need inspiration for your career? icould includes 1000 films of personal career stories, across many occupations. There is an option to search by subject area. Use the Careers Wizard by answering 5 questions to view articles and videos about careers that might suit you.
SACU
SACU offers a great independent and impartial source of careers information to students, parents and teachers. SACU has published a free, user friendly career's quiz on their website (the Spartan Test). You need no prior knowledge. You don’t need to have started planning your future yet. All you need to do is choose a picture. You select 1 image from a possible 4. You do this with different images a total of 48 times. That’s it. All you need to do is make a quick instinctive decision on which image (if any) best represents you. Don’t take too long and don’t analyse too deeply on possible hidden meanings!
Library/Book based
There are lots of books to look at in the LRC for you to find out about different jobs and how to get there. We keep this section up to date and keep an eye out for future employment trends.