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Careers Guidance

PERSONAL CAREERS GUIDANCE

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TOTAL SESSIONS 24/25

ACCESS CREATIVE COLLEGE: 123 sessions:
BIR 14, BRI 20, LIN 14, LON 25, MAN 20, NOR 25, PLY 5
ACCESS SPORT: 60 sessions

AVAILABLE SESSIONS 24/25 TERM 1
All sessions must be booked via Hubspot at the link above.

Thursday 3rd October: 6 sessions
Tuesday 8th October: 6 sessions
Thursday 10th October: 6 sessions
Thursday 17th October: 6 sessions
Tuesday 5th November: 6 sessions
Thursday 7th November: 6 sessions
Thursday 14th November: 6 sessions
Tuesday 19th November: 6 sessions
Thursday 21st November: 6 sessions
Thursday 28th November: 6 sessions
Tuesday 3rd December: 6 sessions
Thursday 5th December: 6 sessions
Thursday 12th December: 6 sessions
Thursday 19th December: 6 sessions

AVAILABLE SESSIONS 24/25 TERM 2
All sessions must be booked via Hubspot at the link above.

Thursday 9th January: 6 sessions
Tuesday 14th January: 6 sessions
Wednesday 15th January: 6 sessions
Thursday 16th January: 6 sessions
Friday 17th January: 6 sessions
Thursday 23rd January: 6 sessions
Tuesday 28th January: 6 sessions
Thursday 30th January: 6 sessions
Thursday 6th February: 6 sessions
Tuesday 25th February: 6 sessions
Thursday 27th February: 6 sessions
Thursday 6th March: 6 sessions
Tuesday 11th March: 6 sessions
Thursday 13th March: 6 sessions
Thursday 20th March: 6 sessions
Tuesday 25th March: 3 sessions
Thursday 27th March: 6 sessions

Personal Careers Guidance with Positive Steps.mp4

What is a Career Guidance Session?

A career guidance session is a virtual 1-2-1 discussion which allows you to talk about your next steps and career aspirations with a qualified, independent careers adviser.

Your adviser will help you towards achieving your desired career goals, acting as a guide, and leading and setting up a course of action. Sessions are delivered by ACC partner, Positive Steps, and last up to 45 minutes.

Sessions are available if:

You have made the wrong course choice.
You are thinking of leaving your course.
You are uncertain of your next steps when you finish the course.
You have special educational needs.

'Career guidance supports you to access work, education or training opportunities that provide access to a source of income, social contact, purposeful activity and healthy challenges.'

Empowering YOU!

Career guidance helps you to:

Recognise your own strengths and build on them
Focus on the future
Plan a desirable but attainable lifestyle and identity
Work out what is important to you
Set achievable goals

All of these elements can help to promote your well-being. There is good evidence that career guidance has a positive effect on mental health.

'Career guidance increases social mobility. How do you move up the social ladder if you don't know what the rungs look like.'

Benefiting YOU!

A career guidance session can have many benefits. Here are some of them:

Exploring and identifying your own skills, strengths and priorities.
Supporting you to identify career ideas.
Providing up to date careers information and resources..
Providing the latest Labour Market Information (LMI).
Providing up to date information about future learning and employment opportunities.
Access to the latest information on education changes.

'Everybody needs a guide. Whatever your options, a guide will navigate you through the choices and challenges you face along the way.'

Your Session

Your personal careers guidance will be provided by Positive Steps, an independent charitable trust. It will be a structured career conversation between you and a careers professional.

Your session will be a virtual 1-2-1 discussion lasting around 45 minutes. This will be done via Meets on a computer or mobile, so make sure you are in a quiet space with good internet access.

Your adviser will be a professionally qualified Level 6 Career Adviser.

The output of your session will be an individual Progression Plan for you to take away.

'Career guidance helps people manage their life, learning and work. People’s careers develop over their lives, so they need lifelong access to career guidance.'

Booking your session

Arrange a 1-2-1 meeting with your Course Leader or Learning Support Manager to go through the process and make sure you are happy with everything.

To book a session you will need to select an available date and your Course Leader or Learning Support Manager will inform the Careers Adviser of the reason for the booking with any relevant background information.

'The evidence shows that career guidance can have substantial benefits for the economy by supporting individuals to enhance their capacities in ways that contribute to enhanced jobs, skills and growth.'

Who are Positive Steps?

Positive Steps work in schools, colleges and training establishments providing careers information, advice and guidance to help young people make well-informed and realistic decisions about their career pathways.

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'It helps you identify factors influencing your career development and helps you assess your interests, abilities, and values.'

After your session

Pick up any actions with your Course Leaderor Learning Support Manager via a 1-2-1 Review or in Course Progress.

We may decide that you need another career guidance session in which case this can be arranged.

We want you to review your experience of your career guidance session via the form below.

REVIEW FORM

'A career adviser offers unbiased insights, information, expertise and advice, thus enabling you to figure out who you are and what you want from your career.'

NCS Careers Advice

The National Careers Service provides careers information, advice and guidance. They can help you to make decisions on learning, training and work at all stages in your career.

Wherever you are in your decision-making, you can call and speak to a Careers Adviser on 0800 100 900 or use webchat.