National Careers Week 2021
Get Ready for National Careers Week 2021!
Monday 1st to Saturday 6th March 2021
The 10th annual National Careers Week 2021 is being held during 1st to 6th March 2021. It is a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people leaving education.
For a range of resources and activities, please click here.
Please also take a look at our Job of the Week for further information and details about individual career pathways.
National Careers Week
Easy resources to help you run an effective NCW
It's the tenth annual National Careers Week - this year's theme is Empowering Positive Change through Careers Education. We've brought together some resources for each day of the week to help you continue careers learning, lockdown style. Each set of resources is complete with easy tasks you can set your students.
MONDAY: How to become...
Our "How to become" section is full of job profiles and other guides to help your students explore different careers paths and the skills, qualifications and experience needed to get there, as well as what to expect from the profession when they do.
Task: Ask your students to research three careers they are interested in and develop a five-step plan on how they could start pursuing each of these career paths now.
TUESDAY: Employability skills
Employers value key skills like teamwork, communication and problem solving but many graduates and school/college leavers lack these. Your students can get ahead by understanding how to develop these skills while still at school/college so that they can make successful applications even when they are up against more experienced candidates
Task: Ask your students to research an employability skill required in one of jobs they researched in Monday's task, and come up with three ways they will develop that skill at school/college.
WEDNESDAY: Careers action plan
Last year, we created a careers actions plan students could use to map out their plan for careers development in lockdown. This year, students are returning to school as we gradually come out of lockdown, but this action plan is still a useful tool to help your students plan for their futures in a structured way. You can find it under item 1 on our coronavirus resources page.
Task: Get your students to download and complete a careers action plan ready for the summer term. Note: the action plan references 2020 but this can simply be amended to say "2021".
THURSDAY: Industry spotlights
Our industry spotlight series looks at a number of industries in depth, highlighting future trends, job opportunities available within these industries and pathways from education to employment in each sector. You can find them under item 2 on our coronavirus resources page.
Task: Ask your students to pick one of these industry spotlights to read. Get them to make notes and complete the worksheet provided with the industry spotlight.
FRIDAY: Crisis Careers Heroes
Last spring, we ran a campaign highlighting some of the amazing people who are often undervalued in our society but whose work was vital to getting us through the pandemic - from nurses, teachers and homeless support workers to cleaners, postal workers and HGV drivers. You can find all the information on this page.
Task: Ask your students to focus on one of the five areas highlighted in our series. Encourage them to reflect on what kinds of jobs are socially beneficial and why pursuing such a career might provide personal fulfilment.
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