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Life after school

When your child is starting to think about next steps after school, there are lots of different options to explore in education, training and starting a career. Even if they want to do something different to what you’ve done, there are ways that you can help them to think through what’s next.

Life after school

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How to help your child to think about their career

  1. Give them advice from your own experience and ask family friends and relatives to share theirs too.  
  2. Keep an open mind around all the options – university, apprenticeships and going straight into work.  
  3. Remember that nothing is final: most of our first jobs are a steppingstone into a career. 
Life after school

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Looking for more?

There are a range of different websites that can help you help your child with their options after school, have a look at them:

The Graduate Project How to help your children get their foot in the job market  

Youth Employment How to help your child choose a career  

Parentkind Helping with careers advice  

Barclays Life Skills How to decide what to do after school  

National Careers Service Get the Jump

 

Time to reflect

When thinking about how you can support your child in their life after school…

What are you already doing that you want to carry on doing?

What have you learned that you could try today?

What do you want to do next?

Know what you want to do next?

Log into your free account (on the top right-hand side) to set a goal on something that’s important to you and your family – then you can check in to show yourself how far you’ve come.

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