National Careers Week 2025
3-8th March 2025
National Careers Week is a one-week celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people develop awareness and about their future pathways.
NCW is a dedicated week every year allowing schools, colleges, universities, alternative provision settings and organisations to work towards enhanced careers provision.
Here at The Bishop’s Stortford High School, we have both events and special form activities planned (see below).
For lots of great information, advice and resources, do visit the National Careers Website: https://nationalcareersweek.com/
The Virtual Careers Fair goes ‘live’ on 3rd March: https://nationalcareersweek.com/ncw2025-vcf-info/
Monday 24th February
Years 8-13 Lunchtime Careers Workshop
Eddie Sneddon – Careers in Sports Journalism
Monday 3rd March
Years 8-13 Lunchtime Careers Workshop
Dr Stephen Daly – Medical Careers
1.10pm-1.50pm Room C10
Year 11 Assembly Guests
Adam Baker & George Knight
Sporting Futures 3pm-3.30pm
Careers in Sports Teaching/Coaching
Year 9 Assembly Guest: Dean Bristow
Group 1 Auto BMW/Mini
3pm-3.30pm
Careers in Marketing, Sales, Servicing Technicians, Data Analysis, Business & Finance
Tuesday 4th March
Years 8-13 Lunchtime Careers Workshop
Stewart Dempsey – Officer Careers in the Army
1.10pm-1.50pm Room C10
Year 10 Assembly Guest
Robin Heath, Inflite Engineering Careers
3pm-3.30pm
Wednesday 5th March
Years 8-13 Lunchtime Careers Workshop
Amelie Mason – Careers in the BBC
1.10pm-1.50pm Room C10
Year 8 Assembly Guest:
Amelie Mason, BBC Careers 3pm-3.30pm
Friday 7th March
Year 7 Assembly Guest
LCpl Stephen Swart & Sgt Graham Abols
British Army Careers
Do encourage your son/daughter to attend the workshops; not only are they great for finding out more about different roles in various sectors, but they’re a great way of making contacts for work experience and post-18 recruitment.
They are very informal and fun to attend – with occasional freebies!
Form Tutor Sessions During National Careers Week
Year 7 The World of Work – learning from Labour Market Information (LMI) and what is the labour market of the future?
Year 8 Skills For The Future – learning about skills for the future and how they relate to the subjects you are studying and discovering our employability skills
Year 9 What Are My Options After GCSE’s? Learning about vocational and occupational pathways; A Levels, T Levels, Traineeships, BTECS….. jargon-busting information
Year 10 Exploring Careers – exploring different careers to help plan for the future and discovering careers in the Priority Sector
Year 11 Occupational Pathways – learning more about the different pathways after GCSE’s and consider which pathway is best for you.
Parents Guide To National Careers Week 2025
The Parents’ Guide aims to provide parents with the information they need to help their teenage children make the right choices to create successful futures after GCSE and sixth form.
Here’s a link to the 2024 Green Careers Guide where you’ll find general careers guidance including information on green careers, careers magazines, careers films, booklets & guides. Look out for the updated 2025 version. There also a link here to helpful advice and information to help you grow your sustainability career.
Career Profiles are listed on the Start website along with information on study choices
And here’s a link to the UCAS Careers Quiz here.
There are more quizzes on the Careers section of the TBSHS website, and sixth form students can complete the Personality Quiz via Unifrog.
Hertfordshire industry requires talented people so it is important when choosing your career to have an understanding of the main purpose of these industries, what skills are needed and why a particular sector could be right for you.
Hertfordshire Opportunities Portal showcases careers across industry sectors. Explore the sectors via the link to find out about some of our local employers, watch videos that will describe how other residents have found great careers in Hertfordshire’s local industries and search for live jobs, courses and apprenticeships, click here
For more information on roles, here’s a link to the Hop Into Careers Directory
