Parents
Parents: how you can support your children achieve their career aspiration
- Talk to your children about what they want to do after school and help them to investigate options and pathways.
- Discuss skills in the workplace and encourage them to talk to friends and family about different kinds of careers and workplace environments
- Help them to identify their own skills and strengths, and the kind of work and environment that might suit them
- Discuss the various careers activity that takes place in school and how it might inspire and inform your child
- Explore some of the websites listed in the Student and Additional Resources sections, and with your child have a look at lots of job profiles and labour market information on Eclips (career website) which can be accessed via mystuff on the school website (https://mystuff.holmer.bucks.sch.uk/hap/#-careers
- Where appropriate, help them to visit further and higher education institutions on Open Days
- Help your child to find appropriate work experience placements
- Help your child to prepare for interviews and applications
- Support wider opportunities for your child to gain insight and understanding of the world of work
- Positively support your child’s ambitions and aspirations
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