1. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School Oakgrove Integrated College Year 12 Choices Meeting for Students & Parents 14 th March, 2016

2. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School Yr 12 Careers Programme Labour Market Information (LMI) STEM What Employers Want Curriculum Vitae (CV) Job Applications Interview Skills Post 16 Options Personal Career Plan

3. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School Post 16 Options Employment Further training eg ‘Training For Success’ Apprenticeships NWRC Start a Business / Entrepreneurship Oakgrove College University

4. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School Vocational Options Further training eg ‘Training For Success’, – various training organisations Apprenticeships – www.nidirect.gov.uk/apprenticeshipsni www.nidirect.gov.uk/apprenticeshipsni NWRC – www.nwrc.ac.ukwww.nwrc.ac.uk Starting a Business / Entrepreneurship – www.investni.com www.investni.com

5. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School A-Levels and University Statistics show that the more qualifications you have the better chance you have of being employed The higher the qualification, the better your salary will be Only choose A-Levels and University as an option if you are suited to it University is expensive – Average Student Debt - £25000 N.Ireland, £15-20000 RoI & £30-40000 Engand, Scotland & Wales

6. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School How To Choose Subjects Choose subjects because you: are good at it, you like it or find it interesting need it or it’s useful for your future career think you will do well in it and your teachers think it is a suitable choice for you like the method of assessment and teaching

7. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School How Not To Choose Subjects Don’t choose subjects because: your friends are doing it you think you should do it – even if you don’t want to (STEM) you can’t think of anything else to choose you think it will be easy but you haven’t found out about it you really like the teacher who teaches it

8. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School University Information Research university courses and subject/grades required www.ucas.com - Course Searchwww.ucas.com Universities will make offers to students using grades eg BBB or points 300/120 Most university courses require at least 3 A-Level or equivalent qualifications

9. Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School Useful Websites www.careersserviceni.com www.foylelc.com www.ucas.com www.cao.ie www.ulster.ac.uk www.qub.ac.uk www.nwrc.ac.uk www.nidirect.gov.uk/apprenticeshipsni www.investni.com

10. Careers Service NI Careers Advisors for Oakgrove Kathryn McCallion 1 st Floor, Richmond Chambers, The Diamond, BT48 6HN 028 71272800 www.careersserviceni.com Richmondchambers.cs@delni.gov.uk Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School

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17. Advice to potential students Strong need for employability skills such as: team working; good communication; people management; problem solving, critical/objective thinking, initiative, commercial acumen. Young people should study in an area for which they have a passion. If oversupplied subject area then need to excel (e.g. in general a 2:2 in Engineering is likely to be more sought after than a 2:2 in Social Studies) Oakgrove Integrated College A Specialist UNICEF Rights Respecting School