Employability Team
| Rachel Hopwood | Careers Lead |
| Sally Devlin | Employability (Careers) Coordinator |
| Simon Osborne | Enterprise Advisor |
| Dr Gill Odolphie | Enterprise Advisor |
If you need to contact the employability team you can call the main office on 01934 742 608 or email office@kowessex.co.uk.
Documents
Careers Guidance
Work Experience
Resources
LMI Employment Quiz and Average Pay Checker
LMI have developed a short quiz to help students figure out what they might like to do for work. They have also developed a tool for checking UK average pay by job type.
Somerset Careers Hub Student & Parent/Carers Padlet & Opportunities Padlet
The Somerset careers hub Padlets may be of interest to students and parents. It is regularly updated with news and opportunities relating to careers in all industries in Somerset and the rest of the South West as well as careers education resources for all students at all levels.
Useful Links
| National Careers Service | The government has set up specialist services for young people to obtain impartial Careers Advice |
| Success at School | This site has a “Careerzone” which is an excellent resource for finding out more about the different types of jobs available, with information about what to study and how to get there |
| Uptree | Free to access careers site offering a personality test, cv builder and some basic careers information |
| Youth Employment UK | The website of an organisation working to decrease unemployment amongst young people. It includes useful careers advice and research |
| Target Careers | A free to access site which is designed to increase the general knowledge of young people about a wide range of careers and relevant training |
| Career Pilot | Student friendly site of careers information |
| Career Alchemy | Parental advice site which answers many frequently asked questions |
| Milkround | A website that combines live jobs and apprenticeship vacancies with general careers information |
| All About Group | They offer free advice and guidance to young people, helping over half a million young people each year. |
| Careers Box | This site has lots of short films embedded in it where all kinds of people talk about a wide variety of areas of work |
| Practice Reasoning | This site has guides for students in dealing with psychometric tests during job interviews and internships |
| WikiJob | A site that helps you explore opportunities and plan your career as well as provide information on government funded further education |