For the Gatsby Careers Guidelines - A careers assembly lasting around 20-25 minutes (including short clip) with a focus on why Careers Education is so important and how students can make the most of all the opportunities presented to them whilst in school. The assembly examines the cases of two fictional ex-students, Alisha and Jack, who didn’t take Careers Education seriously and ended up paying the price for it by adding years on to their lives in the time it took them to eventually find their ideal jobs. The slides in the previews are just a sample and not the whole assembly. The assembly includes optional interactive elements, a 4 minute clip, a lot of motivational information, questions for students to answer and a little humour. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship, RE and RSE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources

My Skills and Careers Booklet contains 20 pages and has been updated for the 2024 academic years. This Careers booklet is packed full of varied activities, worksheets, tasks for students to undertake with regards to exploring their own skills and qualities in line with thinking about their future career opportunities. The booklet also has activities related to Labour MArket Information and exploring employment sectors whilst also considering thing like how Brexit may impact Labour trends. This Careers Booklet also comes with some of our most popular careers resources. I will detail a list below Contents included 1 x 20 Page A4 Careers Booklet of activities 1 x Student Workbooklet in PDF format 1 x Set of Careers Domino Templates 1 x Student Blank Poster Template 1 x Skills and Qualities Card Sort activity with Worksheet ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Have a look at some of our highly popular specialist careers units: ☞ Year 7 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 8 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 9 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 10 Secondary Careers Unit ☞ Year 11 Gatsby Benchmark Careers in Context Unit ☞ Year 12 Secondary Finance and Careers Unit ☞ Year 13 Secondary Finance and Careers Unit

2 HOURS - NEW PSHE / Careers lesson for 2026, perfect for students to begin to assess and develop their personal skills, strengths, interests, qualities and values in relation to their future career paths. This lesson covers both Gatsby Guidelines and the DfE’s new 2026 RSHE Guidelines / PSHE Association’s objectives for Living in the Wider World KS3. Everything is editable. engaging and easy to follow. Lesson plan included. Students will discover their own personal skills, strengths, interests, qualities and values by assessing examples, completing progress templates, creative and fun tasks, video clip tasks, partnered activities and much more. They will then investigate the employability skills their potential future employers are looking for in the modern world, and see just how much their personal attributes have already started to apply. They will also set realistic but ambitious goals about those they wish to develop and begin thinking about how their interests and values could also help them decide upon a career path. This is taken from the new 2026 COMPLETE SECONDARY PSHE Package This contains all the new DfE RSHE 2026 topics - AI deepfakes, sextortion, chatbots, brain development, coercive control, online misogyny, harmful behaviour online and so much more. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also run the EC Publishing website, where you can find anything and everything for PSHE. Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

2 HOURS! For the Gatsby Benchmark Careers Guidelines. fully resourced careers lesson (no internet or computers needed - all job research info is provided). Students have information about 16 different types of jobs and careers in a variety of sectors (A4 info sheet on each). They then have templates to complete to research if the job is one they could potentially pursue as a career - answering probing questions about their own suitability, skills and qualities as they explore each one. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, Citizenship or Tutor Time. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our PSHE Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack

Job Interviews + Preparation. For the Gatsby Careers Guidelines - a detailed lesson containing a 1-2 hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, interview role play activities - for KS3/ KS4. Includes detailed lesson plan. This lesson has recently been updated for 2026, and students will spend the first part following the journey of a student called Katey, as she tries to gain a position in the tech industry. They will follow her from Year 8, how she prepared, worked hard and overcame setbacks up until the age of 22, when she finally lands a job at a small start-up. Students will then think about their own journeys, before completing job interview role play exercises and finally creating a TikTok (not on their phones) about how preparation for their eventual successful job interview actually starts now, whilst still at school, Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2026 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk. This contains all the new DfE RSHE 2026 topics - AI deepfakes, sextortion, chatbots, brain development, online misogyny and so much more. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

Interview Preparation. Careers and PSHE (Life Skills & Wellbeing) Lesson Pack. Learning Outcomes: To understand how to prepare for an interview To understand the do’s and don’ts during an interview To practice a mock interview Each Lesson Pack Contains: 1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning) Student Worksheet(s) Mindfulness Extension Activities Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker) Teacher Notes (On some slides) Mapped against Latest DfE Guidance, PSHE Association Core themes and Requirements Mapped against Gatsby Benchmark in Careers standards We sell Complete Careers and Gatsby Careers Benchmark Units - Take a look at some of them here: ⇨ CAREERS KS3 UNIT ⇨ Careers, Employability Skills + Enterprise Unit ⇨ Careers and Gatsby Benchmarks Quizzes ⇨ Post 16 Options and Careers Lesson ⇨ Careers and Employment Activities and Cardsorts ⇨ Skills and Qualities Careers Quiz ⇨ Careers - Writing a Personal Statement ⇨ Careers - Student Workbook ⇨ Careers - Interview Preparation Lesson

2 HOURS NEW DfE RSHE GUIDELINES COMPLIANT (see lesson plan included for details). New, double lesson all about how we appear to others online and how poor presentation can taint an employer’s view of us. Over 90% of employers admit to screening potential candidates’ social media, so in this lesson students will examine exactly why employers do this, and what they’re looking for. Students will then assess case studies of seven teenagers with questionable or positive social media profiles, giving advice on how they can improve and what should not be posted or should remain private. They will then assess tweets from celebrities and politicians that either made them lose their jobs, or made them lose face in the public eye, investigating why and what we can learn from these. The lesson includes a detailed, editable PowerPoint, accompanying worksheets, information pack, clip tasks, analysis tasks, creative tasks and much more. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Includes detailed lesson plan. This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing Complete 2026 PSHE Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website. Everything is editable and easy to pick up and run with and includes future DfE updates too. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk THIS LESSON IS FROM THE EC COMPLETE SECONDARY KS3 KS4 PSHE PACKAGE 2026 This contains all the new DfE RSHE 2026 topics - AI deepfakes, sextortion, chatbots, brain development, coercive control, online misogyny, harmful behaviour online and so much more. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also offer a Complete KS3 RE Package Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk

Careers, Jobs, Work Skills + Employment Quiz. For end of term or any time! For any secondary year group as a part of a Careers unit, or as an informal PSHE / Careers assessment. This is an easy to use, Careers and Employability Skills Quiz which compliments the Gatsby Guidelines, covering questions on a range of topics, including: Job interviews and applications Life in work Employability Skills Pay and conditions Rights at work Future Careers Qualifications Apprenticeships Perfect for a Tutor Time session, end of term PSHE lesson or for using any time during a Careers unit for a bit of colourful, interactive fun. All answers included on a separate document, with full explanations. The questions are divided between multiple choice and true or false. Everything is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning. If you like this, we also provide a complete KS3 PSHE Package for schools as well as hundreds of other lessons and PSHE assessment and PSHE audit tools. Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Leave a review for this quiz and pick any resource from any of these stores, up to the value of £3, for free! (drop us an email with the one you’d like - info@ecpublishing.co.uk) English - PSHE, RE, Citizenship - Humanities - The quiz is in the Zip File labelled ‘Careers Quiz’. The image files have been uploaded just so you can see the kind of questions in the quiz as a preview. Many more free and inexpensive resources for PSHE, RE, Tutor Time, Citizenship GCSE and RSE available at my store and at my store: EC Resources

2 HOUR LESSON for PSHE / Careers with a focus on how the rise of AI is already affecting the job market and how it will most likely affect all of our career prospects in future. The lesson focuses on the types of jobs that are already facing redundancies, the workplaces benefiting from the technology and the more ‘future-proof’ careers that it’s advisable for students to start considering. The lesson also investigates the prospect of UBI (universal basic income) and how we may see possibly this implemented in future. The lesson includes a detailed, editable PowerPoint, accompanying worksheets, AI information pack, clip tasks, analysis tasks, creative tasks, jobs info pack and much more. Suitable for KS3 or KS4, but best suited to KS4, just because of some of the terminology. This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing Complete 2026 PSHE Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website. Everything is editable and easy to pick up and run with and includes future DfE updates too. This has been written to cover the 2026 PSHE guidance from the DfE and PSHE Association for RSE. Includes detailed lesson plan. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk THIS LESSON IS FROM THE EC COMPLETE SECONDARY KS3 KS4 PSHE PACKAGE 2026 Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also offer a Complete KS3 RE Package All of which can also be found at discounted rates on the EC Publishing Ltd website (with a quick Google). For any queries or school invoice orders contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

For the Gatsby Benchmark Careers Guidelines - 1 -2 hour lesson with a focus on writing CVs. This pack includes a detailed powerpoint, shortlisting and creating CVs activities, clips with questions, various differentiated activities and a selection of good to bad CVs to analyse as well as hints and tips for creating your own. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

COVERS NEW 2026 DfE GUIDANCE (see lesson plan for details). In this lesson students will explore the intricacies of employment law and how it applies to the everyday person in a variety of situations. They will also investigate how the Equality Act is applied in the workplace, by putting themselves in the position of an employer considering new candidates. The lesson includes group tasks, literacy-based tasks, clip tasks, case studies and many other activities. Everything is editable and easy to just pick up and Includes detailed lesson plan. Taken from the new 2026 EC Publishing Complete Secondary PSHE Package. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

NEW 2026 RSHE GUIDPSHE / CAREERS lesson all about the importance of being ambitious and aspirational, but also realistic, when it comes to setting career goals. Students will investigate how it may not be possible for everyone to become an influencer, footballer or rapper - but is is possible for all of us to attain an aspirational and ambitious career if we’re prepared to put the hard work in. Students will examine case studies about ambitious people who achieved their dreams and how they had to overcome challenges to do so. They will explore how setting ambitious but attainable goals can help them achieve their very best and explore how having a fall-back plan can be a really good idea. Students will complete clip tasks, creative tasks, debate tasks, literacy-based tasks, analysis tasks and much more. Everything is editable and ready to go - created for KS3 but could be used with a younger KS4 set too. Includes lesson plan. This lesson is taken from the new EC Publishing Complete PSHE Package which can be found at the EC Publishing website. Everything is editable and easy to pick up and run with. This has been written to cover the 2020-24 PSHE guidance from the DfE and PSHE Association for Living in the Wider World. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk Check out our PSHE Packages on Tes here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE Complete KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete KS3 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

1-2 hour session, detailed PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, well differentiated, suitable for KS3/ KS4, to help cover the Gatsby Careers Guidelines. Created for Year 10s in the run up to starting their work experience placements. The progress sheet is optional These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

Managing Debt Careers Lesson- Careers Education and CDI Framework. 1-2 hour Lesson. Part of the Cre8tive Careers KS5 Resources for Sixth Formers or Year 11 Students on personal finance. Editable 21 slide PowerPoint Lesson, Lesson Assessment, Student Resources, Signposting to extra support services. ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Learning Objectives To know the range of credit options available to adults To understand the seriousness of debt and how to overcome it To know the difference between priority debts and non-priority debts Some Key Terms Covered Debt, Interest, Crisis Loan, Repayments, Interest, Loan Sharks, overdraft Careers (Assessment) Objectives I understand the impact getting into debt can have on myself and my family I can identify priority and no-priority debts I know how to access reliable advice on debt counselling ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Each Lesson Pack Contains: ☞ 1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning) ☞ Most lessons include a Worksheet ☞ Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker) ☞ Teacher Notes (On some slides) ☞ Mapped against the Careers Development Index (CDI) and Gatsby Benchmarks ⟴ PSHE Association Theme: Living in Wider World ⟴ Be Ofsted and DfE PSHE ready with our resources! Product Code: RSE/C8/LS/265 ❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀ ⇨ KS4 Relationships and Sex Education Unit ⇨ Y11 Staying Safe (Parties, Online and Drugs) Unit Bundle ⇨ KS4 Drugs Education Unit Bundle ⇨ Women’s Health Unit Unit Bundle ⇨ Contraception and STI Unit Y9’s Bundle ⇨ Law Crime and Society Unit Bundle ⇨ Extremism + Radicalisation + Terrorism Unit Bundle ⇨ An introduction to Politics for KS3 Students

The Big Skills and Qualities Quiz - Fun Premium High Quality Quiz, Lesson PowerPoint on the topic of Careers suitable for KS3 or KS4 Students Contents of Quiz 1 x 32 Slide Editable PowerPoint Quiz - (All the 50+ questions in 9 different fun and varied rounds. Followed by all the Answers and a Creative Tie Breaker) 1 x Lesson Plan (matched to PSHE Association Core themes & Links and DFE Statutory Guidance) 1 x Team Answer Sheets (print 1 per team for students to record their answers) 1 x Set of Optional Award Certificates (1st, 2nd and 3rd place team and Team leader Certificates) 1 x Extension PPT of Mindfulness activities for students. 1 x PowerPoint slide signposting extra online support for students & Teachers related to this topic. We sell Complete PSHE and Citizenship Units - Take a look at some of them here: Gangs Drugs and Alcohol Unit Politics, Parliament and Me Unit KS4 Careers and Gatsby Benchmarks Unit Extremism and Terrorism PREVENT Unit Exploring British Values Unit LGBTQAI+ PSHE Unit of Work Celebrating Diversity in the UK PSHE Curriculum Overview tool Secondary PSHE Audit tool for Schools Primary PSHE Audit tool for Schools International World Issues Unit All resources designed by a specialist Team of practicing PSHE and Citizenship teachers and HOD’s.

Originally Google Slides - some text may have shifted as a result! A series of 20 min lessons to support Year 10 / Year 11 students in creating CVs and considering employment opportunities. Covers tranferable skills, online presence, interview preparation, CV writing, and careers advice.

New Careers Assembly - Assembly Topic: Exploring what a career might look like and how school subjects can link to them - Part of a Recovery Curriculum of Assemblies for students. Each Assembly Contains: 1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Clear structure, Assessment of Learning, Beautiful presentation, Engaging Premium Quality Slides & Thoughtful Questioning) Designed by Specialists Mapped against Latest DfE Guidance, PSHE Association Core themes and 2020 Requirements The Cre8tive Curriculum way! Our shared vision at Cre8tive Curriculum is to help teachers to equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning and become independent critical thinkers. Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need for educational, fun and creative lessons.

Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Psychology and Careers. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This PowerPoint explains the work of Dr Jonathan Grainger, a cognitive psychologist who is using experimental techniques to determine how skilled readers process words and sentences. • This resource also contains an interview with Dr Grainger and advice about careers in this field. If you or your students have a question for him, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Dr Grainger will reply! • The Ppt. contains ‘talking points’ to prompt students to reflect on Dr Grainger’s work, career path and the tips he offers. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

This briefing paper covers the current and future position of carees education, information, advice and guidance in schools in England. It includes a summary of the government’s expectations on schools, good practice in delivery of CEIAG, future arrangements, based on the 2011 Education Bill and the principles that should underpin these.

A sample lesson plan from Highflyers Publishing to support careers education and guidance. This pack contains 18 'Careers Challenges' worksheets, designed to allow students the freedom to decide how they want to tackle their own career learning. (Apprenticeships, Further Education, Getting a Job, Higher Education, Work Experience, Volunteering & Gap Year, Self-employment/Entrepreneurship).