Inspiring and supporting your learners to make well informed decisions about their future and assisting you to embed Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance into your school FREE of charge. This challenge supports young people to start to think about their next steps after school and embeds careers education into the curriculum alongside being mapped to the Scottish curriculum for excellence. Pupils are asked to undertake 5x key tasks including researching, reimagining, planning and pitching before then looking at the potential career options available using what have just learnt. Based around a sustainability and mobility focus which asks teams to invent a new form of public shared transport to support Scottish mobility. The challenge also supports pupils in their soft and employability skills by using teamwork, communication and reasoning throughout. This competition is kindly sponsored by the SMTA.

Inspiring and supporting your learners to make well informed decisions about their future and assisting you to embed Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance into your school FREE of charge. This challenge supports young people to start to think about their next steps after school and embeds careers education into the curriculum alongside being mapped to the Scottish curriculum for excellence. Pupils are asked to undertake 5x key tasks including researching, reimagining, planning and pitching before then looking at the potential career options available using what have just learnt. Based around a sustainability and mobility focus which asks teams to invent a new form of public shared transport to support Scottish mobility. The challenge also supports pupils in their soft and employability skills by using teamwork, communication and reasoning throughout. This competition is kindly sponsored by the SMTA

Rules of the road: understanding what employers expect in terms of behaviour and conduct when employed. Did you think of behaviour when you created your list of what employers will be looking for? You may think that only your behaviour during a job interview will be considered as that’s all a prospective employer will see. Actually, there’s a lot you can do to build up your understanding and the skills needed by employers before you apply for that all important job. And by gaining experience you will be able to demonstrate it in your application. How? Module 2: Rules of the Road will help you get a much better understanding of what sort of behaviour will be expected in a workplace and how you can learn to adapt your own behaviour to meet your employer’s expectations. Employers will be looking for evidence that you know how to behave in the workplace and that can be provided in a number of ways. Have you had any part-time work yet? If not, how about voluntary work? You will be offered an opportunity for work experience before you leave school.

Roadblocks: Adapting to barriers and unexpected last-minute changes, finding alternative routes and solutions. As you travel along on your career journey, there are bound to be challenges along the way. Some of these will require minor adjustments in approach or usual process to overcome, for others you will need to think on your feet, adapt and perhaps step out of your comfort zone in order to find the best route to take. Every day we face changes and new scenarios, however how we perceive them often dictates the difference between seeing a barrier in the way or recognising an opportunity for growth. Being adaptable and flexible means having a positive attitude to change and being able to quickly and effectively adjust to new circumstances. There four key skills that support adaptability: • Cognitive flexibility • Learning Mindset • Resourcefulness • Versatility

Topic: Budgeting Context: Drag Racing This exercise allows the student to “play” with variable factors, to achieve the best result possible when designing their own drag racing vehicle. It will also introduce them to ideas of trade off and value for money.

This IMI life skills activity will support young people to be able to prepare a cash-flow forecast and to understand the importance of cash flow and how to improve it whilst preparing on saving and budgeting to own your first vehicle. Topic: Finance & money Context: Buying a Car