Inspiring futures with Get Career Confident

Our Get Career Confident website is a key resource for you, your learners and their parents & carers to use throughout the year.  It’s designed to help young people make informed, inspiring choices about their futures.  Make sure to bookmark www.getcareerconfident.co.uk and share it with your colleagues. 

We’ve outlined some of the key resources below to give you an insight into what you can access throughout the year:

Videos

Our videos are organised into three key areas:

  • See to Be – these videos feature real people talking about the roles they love, what they involve, how they got into them and al with links to Sussex.
  • How To - covering a range of topics including choosing GCSEs, applying to college, understanding apprenticeships and university and getting your first job.
  • Careers - a set of films on different industry sectors to help prepare, inspire and support.

What Next guides

Comprehensive up to date and relevant ‘what next guides’ covering options at 14, 16 and 18.  These can be viewed online or contact Charlie to order paper copies for your school / college

A NEW Workshop – Is Higher Education Right for Me?

A 60 – 90 minute session for learners in Year 10 and up. A highly informative yet accessible workshop that takes learners through key considerations of studying higher education, including the pathway options, where you can study, and how the finance system works.  For more information or to book, please contact Charlie on c.field@sussexlearningnetwork.org.uk.

Workshops

Hour-long sessions dedicated to a particular theme and packed with information and practical advice and tips for bringing the issue to life, together with pointers to useful, tried and tested resources. Topics include:

  • Alternatives to university
  • Who am I?
  • Is that really a career?
  • Making good choices
  • Will robots take over?

CPD

We run termly online CPD sessions for careers leads. Find out more and book your place by emailing Charlie Field Davis.

Social Media

We have two social media accounts for young people Instagram use:@getcconfident and TikTok use @getcareerconfident.  Practitioners can join us on LinkedIn by searching Sussex Learning Network.