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 Unifrog it has a Careers Library which contains up-to-date labour market information for over 1300 different careers, with details about the required skills and qualifications for each one. The Subjects Library gives advice about what qualifications you will need to study a subject at university. Additionally, the platform helps students successfully apply for these opportunities by using Unifrog to write their applications, such as personal statements and CVs, and guiding them through the process, allowing teachers to give live feedback. Students can also record their key skills and achievements, and build up an impressive portfolio over time.
• 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