Students

Advice & Guidance

During your time at Kirkbie Kendal we will give you a lot of support to help you decide on what your next steps will be. There will be careers talks, assemblies, Careers Fairs, Mock Interviews, form time careers sessions and careers in your lessons plus much more!

When you’re considering what your future steps will be it is important that you focus on your interests and what motivates you. It is also important to think about your skills.

Make sure you regularly check the KKS Careers Padlet- this has up to date information on opportunities and information for you. It can be found at https://padlet.com/jdonald16/wdn0eet3g78wqcpk .

You also have access to the online platform Unifrog and you use your school email address for your login. You will have form time sessions this year showing you how to use the platform. It includes lots of personality, interests and skills quizzes as well as allowing you to search for future careers, looking at which job roles link to your school subjects and information on apprenticeships, T Levels, University and college courses plus much more! https://www.unifrog.org/

There are also lots of people in school who can help you with Careers, these include:

Your form tutor
Teachers & support staff
Ms Donald (Careers Lead)
Mrs Barker (Deputy Head )
Mrs Herema (Our independent Careers Advisor). She runs drop-in sessions in the library on Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes. If you would like to request a longer individual appointment with her, just let Miss Donald know.

Here are some useful links for you, these are especially important when you are thinking about what you want to do after year 9,11 and sixth form. 

Jobs and Careers

www.startprofile.com
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk
www.inspira.org.uk/
www.lancashire.gov.uk/youthzone.aspx
www.greatbusiness.gov.uk
www.unifrog.org
www.gov.uk/starting-up-a-business
www.fsb.org.uk
www.investinsouthlakeland.co.uk
U Explore website with local labour market information

University

www.direct.gov.uk
www.ucas.com

Gap Years

www.yearoutgroup.org
www.gapwork.com
www.volunteerics.org

Apprenticeships

Furness College  www.furness.ac.uk/apprenticeships/
Kendal College www.kendal.ac.uk/apprenticeships
Lakes College www.lcwc.ac.uk
Carlisle College apprenticeships@carlisle.ac.uk
Gen2 www.gen2.ac.uk
BAE Systems www.baesystems.com/en/careers/careers-in-the-uk/apprenticeships
Cumbria Police Force https://www.cumbria.police.uk/careers/police-officers/entry-routes/police-constable-degree-apprenticeship-pcda
System People APPRENTICESHIPS@SYSTEM-PEOPLE.CO.UK

Cumbria County Council

apprentice@cumbria.gov.uk
Energus https://www.energus.co.uk/skills-training/apprenticeships/

Please see links below for further external careers advice and guidance.

Career of the Week