Long-Term Career Planning – Full Unit
Long-Term Career Planning – Full Unit (Careers Education / Personal Development)
7+ Lesson Bundle • Workbooklet • Quiz • Editable Resources
Support students in making confident decisions about their futures with this forward-looking careers unit. Learners explore long-term goals, resilience, career challenges, business start-up ideas, and how modern tools (including AI) can support their journey. Designed to help Y11 students prepare for post-16 transitions with clarity and self-belief.
Perfect for Careers Education, Personal Development, tutor programmes, transition support, or enrichment days.
🎯 What’s Included
A fully editable, ready-to-teach unit featuring:
1. Career Challenges & Setbacks
Teaches students how to handle disappointment, build resilience, reframe failure and bounce back with purpose.
2. Decision Fatigue & Career Planning
Explores why too many choices can overwhelm us and provides strategies for making clearer, more confident decisions.
3. How Can AI Help in My Career Journey?
Shows students how AI tools can assist with skill development, research, planning, revision, and preparing applications — safely and ethically.
4. Learning from Career Journeys
Students analyse real-life career pathways, detours, pivots and success stories to inspire their own planning.
5. Long-Term Career Goals & Planning
Guides learners through vision-setting, milestones, reflection, and building an adaptable long-term plan.
6. Starting a Business as a Teen
A motivating lesson covering youth entrepreneurship, idea generation, side hustles, legality, risk and reward.
7. Work–Life Balance & Career Planning
Explores wellbeing, boundaries, burnout prevention and how personal priorities shape career choices.
8. End-of-Unit Quiz
Ideal for assessment and consolidation.
📘 Student Workbooklet
A structured resource full of activities, reflection tasks, planning sheets, and applied scenarios.
✨ Key Skills Developed
Long-term planning & goal setting
Resilience & coping with setbacks
Decision-making under pressure
Digital awareness & use of AI career tools
Entrepreneurial thinking
Work–life balance & wellbeing
Career research & transition readiness
📂 Format
Fully editable PowerPoint lessons
Printable / editable student workbooklet
Quiz (interactive + printable)
Teacher notes + optional extension tasks
💡 Perfect For
Careers Education (Y10–Y12)
Personal Development programmes
Transition preparation (post-16)
Tutor time & pastoral sessions
Aspirations and enterprise days
