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Employability and Careers Department

Departmental Staff

  • Mrs Corona McMorrow – Head of Careers
  • Mrs Martina McCaughey – Careers Advisor

Other staff:

  • KS3: Mrs McMorrow; Mrs Fegan, Mrs Devlin, Mr O’Hara
  • KS4: Mrs McMorrow; Mrs Breen, Mrs Darcy, Mrs Devlin, Mr O’Hara
  • Post 16: Mrs McMorrow; Mrs McCrory, Mrs Harley, Mrs Gallagher

Key Stage 3

KS3 Students have one period a week of Employability

 

Year 8 Course Content

  • Job awareness – Students match a range of work activities with relevant jobs & demonstrate an understanding of the activities undertaken in a specific job role.
  • Skills and Qualities – Students begin to consider their own personal skills and qualities and explore, identify and classify a range of key employability skills and qualities required by employers for specific jobs & begin to match their own skills and qualities with job requirements.
  • Personal Career Planning – Students will develop their own planning skills, recognise key steps in achieving a goal and set appropriate targets.
  • Career Research – Research career areas using Kudos software package and www.careersserviceni.com website. Prepare and deliver a powerpoint presentation on a career area of their choice.

 

  • Job opportunities in the local economy – Name a range of local places of work and associated jobs.
  • Occupational Sectors – Identify & categorise career opportunities in the main occupational sectors e.g. retail, finance, agriculture, health, manufacturing, hospitality, service.
  • Technological Changes – Identify recent technological changes and how they have impacted on employment opportunities and work practices.
  • Changes in the local & global economy – Students will identify a range of products that are now produced outside UK/Ireland and explain why these items are not produced in UK/Ireland and the effect this has on employment opportunities and associated jobs.

 

  • Work Patterns – Explain how work patterns have changed & how people have different ways of working in their job; e.g. flexi-time, part-time, teleworking etc.
  • Enterprise – Identify the key attributes of an enterprising person. Pupils will match their potential attributes with those of an enterprising person and solve a business problem in an innovative manner.
Year 8 Employment Presentations

Year 8 Employment Presentations

Year 9: Some of the Topics Covered

  • Career awareness, research & personal career planning
  • Economic growth/ decline & job opportunities within EU countries
  • Corporate Social Responsibility including Environmental issues and implications for employability
  • Impact of globalisation
  • Entrepreneurship & business planning

 

Year 9 visit the Bank

Year 9 students visit the Bank

Year 10: Some of the Topics Covered

  • Choosing GCSE subjects & the implications this will have on future career opportunities.
  • Personal Career Planning
  • Enterprise & Self– employment – opportunities and implications
  • Local & Global employment

key Stage 4

Year 11 & 12

 NB: As well as personal career planning students prepare for the GCSE LLW Employability paper which they take in Summer of Year 12.

 Areas of study include:

  • Globalisation and the impact on employment
  • Rights and responsibilities of Employers and employees
  • Self-employment & Sources of Support
  • Recruitment and Selection Practices for Employment  
  • Career research, job suggestions using Cascaid Careers package
  • Completion of CVS and personal career plans
  • Job application process, including interview awareness and practice
  • Skills and qualities/ SWOT
  • The study of labour market information & the investigation of changing employment   trends and career implications.
  • Post 16 opportunities and preparation for making Post 16 choices.
Year 12 Mock Interview Practice

Year 12 Mock Interview Practice

Key Stage 5

Students have one period a week of Careers

Year 13

  • Labour Market Information & Employment Trends
  • Career Interests & Preferences
  • University Admissions information & trends including talks from Admissions Tutors throughout UK and Ireland
  • Detailed Course & University Research
  • Work Experience – preparation & evaluation
  • Presentation skills
  • Why Higher Education
  • UCAS & CAO application process
  • Personal Career Planning & Skills & Qualities Audit
  • Attendance at workshops on specific career areas

Year 14

  • UCAS Personal Statement
  • Completing the UCAS form online
  • CAO application
  • Interview preparation, including mock interviews
  • Presentation skills
  • Gap year research
  • Choosing a firm & insurance UCAS choice
  • Finance for University/ college
  • Accommodation @ university
  • Use of Social Media & Employability
  • Adapting to life at university
  • Job/ apprenticeship/ bursary and sponsorship opportunities
SWAH Careers in Medicine Event

SWAH Careers in Medicine Event


SWAH Careers in Medicine Event

SWAH Careers in Medicine Event

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