Careers

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Not many young people will know exactly what they want to be and often your career ideas change as you go through education, further learning or training and then into work. Everyone continues to learn throughout their lives.

All young people make choices about what subjects and qualifications they want to study in Year 8 or 9. You have another set of choices to make in Year 11 and again once you are 18.

The education system is changing so that all young people will continue in education or training to age 17 from 2013 and to age 18 from 2015. There is also a wider choice of courses for 14-19 year olds than there has ever been. Your parents, teachers, school's careers co-ordinator and Connexions can help you with these choices.

Choices

Look at the Learning and Choices link above for more details about what your options are.

Course Options

You could look for information on all the course options on the county's online prospectus:
Xplore Progress

Job vacancies

Or you could check the latest job vacancies on:

• www.jobs4you2.org.uk

Careers Database

There is a careers database on NextStep which gives lots of information about all sorts of careers visit:

• https://nextstep.direct.gov.uk/planningyourcareer/jobprofiles/Pages/default.aspx

Want to find out more?

For further information about careers, have a look at the Careers section on the Directgov website:

• http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/YoungPeople/Workandcareers/index.htm

Have a look in your school or college careers library, jobs are split into groups known as job families in the Connexions Resource Centre Index (CRCI):

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