Exploring Your Future Options – Careers Education Unit

Exploring Your Future Options – Careers Education Unit

Prepare your students to make confident, informed decisions about their next steps in education and employment with this fully resourced Careers Education Unit. Designed for high school learners, this unit helps students navigate the complex world of post-secondary options, emerging job markets, and essential future-ready skills.

Through a series of engaging, discussion-rich lessons, students explore university pathways, apprenticeships, employment opportunities, and alternative routes while learning how to research, plan, and adapt when circumstances change. This resource encourages self-reflection, goal setting, and resilience, equipping students with the tools they need to create a realistic and flexible plan for their future.

✅ What’s Included:
• 7 x Fully Editable PowerPoint Lesson Packs

• 1 Fully editable student workbooklet that follows the lessons
• 1 Team Quiz activity
  • 7 x Homework Ideas
  • 7 x End-of-Lesson Confidence Checker Assessments
  • Video links, practical tasks, reflective questions, and clear learning outcomes
  • Teacher notes and mapped to Gatsby Benchmarks, PSHE themes, and careers guidance

📘 Lesson Topics:

1. Choosing a College Major / Degree Subject
2. Understanding Job Markets After School or College
3. Future Skills – What Employers Will Look For
4. The Importance of University Open Days
5. National Apprenticeship Week (NAW)
6. University Clearing + Handling Setbacks (Plan Bs)
7. How to Find a Job & Navigate Recruitment

🎯 Learning Outcomes:
• Explore how to choose a degree or major that suits personal goals and interests
• Understand current and future job markets and how to access relevant career data
• Differentiate between hard and soft skills and their workplace applications
• Learn what to expect at a university open day and how to prepare
• Reflect on apprenticeship pathways and their advantages
• Discover what university clearing involves and why having a plan B is essential
• Understand the job-hunting process and how to write strong applications

🔑 Key Vocabulary:
Degree, UCAS, Entry Requirements, Job Market, Employability, Soft Skills, Apprenticeship, Clearing, Labour Market Information (LMI), CV, Cover Letter, Recruitment

💡 Perfect For:
• High School Careers Classes (Grades 9–12)
• College & Career Readiness Programs
• Drop-Down Days or Advisory Sessions
• Post-16 Pathway Exploration
• Transition Planning Lessons

We sell Complete Careers 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

Be Ofsted and DfE PSHE ready with our resources! Product Code: C8/CCB/