Careers Programme

Student engagement with careers activities is tracked using a tracking and reporting tool contained within COMPASS+. This allows us to track our provision against the Gatsby Benchmarks. Students are also asked to rate the careers provision that they have received over the course of the school year via a questionnaire set in MS Teams at the end of each academic year. Outgoing Year 11 students will also be offered the opportunity to provide feedback through a review co-ordinated by our CEIAG Advisor. All of this information is used to identify strengths, gaps and weakness in provision and to complement the indicators we get from our Post-16 and Post-18 destination data.

Careers Adviser: Danny Manning

What do Year 11s think of the service provided by C+K?

During the Summer Term Careers Advisers surveyed the Year 11 cohort to gather feedback on the service provided by C+K Careers and their Careers Adviser.

Below is a summary of the results.

Have you had contact with your Careers Adviser?

100% of students confirmed they had contact with their careers adviser during Year 11.

If yes, what contact have you had with your Careers Adviser during Year 10/11?

The students who answered this question gave the below responses:

Face to face interview 88.24%
Group interview 26.27%
In a class 5.88%
In an assembly 23.53%
Lunchtime or after school drop in 11.76%
Email/text/phone call 14.71%

All students were offered at least one group or individual guidance session by the end of Year 11. Those who were seen in groups were made aware of how to book an individual appointment if they felt they needed one. All students were made aware via Teams about the ability to come to lunch time drop ins, although this didn’t have a high take up. We think this was at least in part due to the way the school day was changed and the nature of the split lunches, meaning we only advertised for one day as being available for Year 11s. We will change this next year to make it it is clear that students can come to see me at other times as well. We will continue to remain in contact with students over the summer, to ensure they have plans in place and support those who don’t.

Have you had enough contact with your Careers Adviser?

97.06% felt they had enough contact with the Careers Adviser. Only 1 student did not – and they confirmed they knew how to have more contact if they wanted

Did you receive support at the right time to help you make decisions about the future?

94.12% of students felt that they received guidance at the right time. Only two students felt they hadn’t, the only student who made a comment about this said they would have liked support ‘closer in the year to application dates and exams’. We will make sure to contact this student over the summer to ensure they are confident about their next step.

Overall, how satisfied have you been with the help and support you received from your Careers Adviser?

Below are the answers given by those who answered this question:

Very satisfied 41.18%
Satisfied 58.82%
Not satisfied 0%
Very dissatisfied 0%

12 students commented further with all offering positive feedback.

Some of the positive feedback included:

‘He has been very helpful and helped me to understand what choices and paths I can choose in the future as well as what form of education I can enter after school’

‘He helped me look into the steps needed to work for the police or in counselling’

‘Helped me properly rethink my original options, made me feel more confident in where i wanted to go’.
‘My careers advisor was very friendly and helpful during my face to face and showed me the useful websites. He gave me good advice and helped me with decision making’