Careers
- Applying to colleges
- Apprenticeships
- Careers advice
- Local college news
- CV help
- Employability
- Finding jobs
- Get Smaart Magazine
- Hobbies & Interests
- Local colleges & 6ths
- Aims & policies
- Parents & carers
- Leavers stories
- Volunteering
Careers
1) Thinking Time (beginning Y7)
What do I want to do?
- Use the Careers Etc website (see Mr Kemm for your password) tailored to Rye College students.
- Visit Big Ambition and find information about jobs & companies, play careers games and find out about courses available to you
- Look at your hobbies and interests from an employers perspective
- Research jobs to help you decide on your future
2) Choosing Time (beginning Y9)
Who do I want to be?
- Use Plan-It to design your own future (see Mr Kemm for your password)
- Select Key Stage 4 Options (Rye College options booklet) that match your aspirations
- Start putting your CV together
- Ask for advice from our careers advisor or contact a national advisor
3) Testing Time (beginning Y10)
Am I heading in the right direction?
- Use Plan-It to consider your post-16 choices (see Mr Kemm for your password)
- Look at colleges / 6th forms available in the LRC
- Increase your skills and experience by volunteering
- Ask for advice from our careers advisor or contact a national advisor
Apprenticeships
Video promoting apprenticeships from CareersBox
Careers / College Calendar
Shift Happens
This presentation is in need of an update, but still a bit of a thinker..
11 Rules
A presentation from Bill Gates
4) Decision Time (beginning Y11)
What other information do I need?
- Read the Get Smaart e-zine
- See our careers advisor or contact a national advisor
- Visit My Future Sussex or My Future Kent to look at your post-16 options
- Visit UCAS to look at your post-18 options (download the App)
- Check your progress during your last year at school
- Complete your College Application Form
- Look at the websites / application forms of local colleges / 6th forms
- Stay up to date with college & 6th form news & events
- Look into apprenticeships
- Increase your skills and experience by volunteering
- Make sure your CV is finished
- Try the Skills Explorer from CareersBox
Do it!
Whether you are going to college, going on an apprenticeship, starting a job or something else - good luck!
Updated: 10/02/2012
