Year 10 - Learning outcomes

• Key activities: work experience and mock business interviews

• Lessons include preparing to find and carry out work experience placements; CVs, applications and interview technique in preparation for mock business interviews; understanding post-16 options. These activities are supplemented with after-the academy support sessions with PC access.

• Recognise how you are changing, what you have to offer and what’s important to you

• Be positive about your own story and the responsibility you are taking for your own progress, achievement and wellbeing

• Explain key ideas about career and careers development

• Explain different types of business, how they operate and how they measure success

• Find relevant job and labour information (LMI) and know how to use it in career planning

• Recognise and challenge stereotyping, discrimination and other barriers to equality, diversity and inclusion, and know your rights and responsibilities in relation to these issues

• Build and make the most of your personal network of support including making effective use of impartial careers information, advice and guidance

• Show that you have acquired and developed qualities and skills to improve your employability

• Show that you can be enterprising in the way you learn, carry out work and plan your career

• Research your education, training, apprenticeships, employment and volunteering options including information about the best progress pathways through to specific goals

• Know how to make important plans and decisions carefully including how to solve problems and deal appropriately with influences on you

• Know your rights and responsibilities in a selection process and the strategies to use to improve your chances of being chosen

• Review and reflect on previous transitions to help you improve your preparation for future moves in education, training and employment