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Whether you’re leaving school, college or uni, changing jobs or returning to work after a break, navigating your next steps can be pretty daunting. There are a huge range of options study-wise – apprenticeships, degrees, vocational qualifications – not to mention job-seeking hoops to jump through – finding a job, applying, sending CVs, going for interviews. Thankfully, there’s a lot of careers guidance, advice, resources and support out there to set you on the right path towards your dream job.
Brighton & Hove Library Service
Fourteen libraries across the city offering careers and jobseekers’ materials, IT access, reference books plus various services and facilities from photocopying to study spaces.
Provides support, careers advice and guidance to 16- to 18-year-olds across West and East Sussex to help them find work, or move into learning or training, and in doing so improving their life chances.
East Sussex Library & Information Services
A group of 17 libraries across East Sussex offering a range of reference books, careers materials, adult and family learning opportunities and with links to community services such as Children's Centres.
A social enterprise that trades as a recruitment business and provides support over-16s looking for work including advice on careers and business start-up, work experience and volunteering opportunities, plus help with using IT.
Finds suitable placements for adults with learning disabilities, brain injuries and autism, and for their carers, as well as offering support to placement employers.
Based in Crawley but working nationally, Ingeus‘ personalised and professional support helps jobseekers aged 19-plus facing challenges such as disability, disadvantage, illness, an offending background or substance misuse, into work or training and with their health and wellbeing.
A Hailsham-based youth project providing drop-in sessions for under-25s, with staff on hand to offer support with job searches, applications, interview skills, CV writing and finding employment or apprenticeship opportunities in the area.
Government-funded employment agency and social security offices across the region offering help, advice, resources and extra support to find work, training opportunities and entitlement to benefits for over-16s on Universal Credit. Type in your postcode to find your nearest office.
Provides careers information and advice, as well as practical workshops on CV writing, interviews and business start-up, to help over-19 jobseekers in Eastbourne and the surrounding area into education or employment.
Sussex Community Development Association
Works across East Sussex supporting community-based projects aimed at addressing the needs of those most vulnerable in the community, offering counselling, employment support, an advice-and-information hub and many other services.
Traveller Education Support Team
Supports schools across West Sussex to raise standards, challenge prejudices, narrow achievement and attendance gaps, and promote effective partnerships with Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT) families and communities.
In addition to providing accommodation for young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness across Sussex and Surrey, it also offers education and training services such as employability skills, placements, training and social enterprise initiatives, plus counselling services and health and wellbeing support.
Youth Employability Service (East Sussex)
Helping 16- to 18-year-olds who are or are at risk of being NEET (Not in Education Employment or Training) to move into education, training and work through offering careers advice, employability skills training and other jobseeker support from its offices in Hastings and Eastbourne.