At Aberdare Community School, through Health & Wellbeing days, visits, talks and experiences, we aim to provide comprehensive and progressive career and higher education guidance to all pupils.

In conjunction with external agencies, such as Careers Wales and RCT Employment Education and Training Team, ACT, local universities and further education colleges and with the support of local businesses and employers, we support our pupils in many ways.

We assist them in exploring their career aspirations and help make informed decisions about subject choices, further and higher education, alternative pathways and future employment. This ensures that our students undertake a learning pathway that is tailored for them and offers them an experience which serves to help them to:

  • Understand how important sensible career choices are made through having the right information from experts in their field of careers and the world of work;

  • Gain valuable work experience;

  • Make informed decisions about subject choices;

  • Understand how their strengths, interests and personality fit together to enable them to make informed decisions;

  • Consider university options and alternatives to higher education such as employment and apprenticeships so that they pursue the correct learning pathway for them.

Links to:

Latest careers news and events

Jobs Board & current vacancies

Apprenticeships

Employment Links & Schemes

Other careers based websites:

  • www.icould.com – aims to help you to make the most of your potential by showing how others have used theirs, take the ‘Buzz’ personality profile quiz.

  • www.startprofile.com – investigate careers, watch videos and get great advice, find out about employers and work experience opportunities in your area.

  • www.careersbox.co.uk – video based job profile information and skills explorer tool.

  • www.successatschool.org – gives clear and comprehensive information about a range of Career Zones (sectors), in an easy to access format. Students can create a profile to help to collate useful information. ’60 second interviews’ giving profile of professionals, provide a useful insight into specific careers.

  • www.how2become.com – offers detailed advice on how to access a range of sectors. Also offers the purchase of resources, compiled in conjunction with professionals working in these fields, designed to enable you to achieve your dream career or course. A selection of these books and online psychometric testing access have been supplied to the School by How2Become.

  • www.careerswales.com – a good general careers website and job profile database.

  • www.fasttomato.com – an interactive careers website to help with ‘careers matching’ programme to help with career choice (log in for a free guest pass).

  • www.notgoingtouni.co.uk – opportunities that exist outside of university.

  • www.ucas.com – information about university courses on offer, also the Stamford test to help with ideas about subjects to study.

  • www.russellgroup.ac.uk – represents 24 leading universities, source of careers information & advice including ‘informed choices’ a downloadable guide to making post 16 choices.

  • www.prospects.ac.uk – find out which areas you could access after a particular degree.

  • MyCareerSpringboard.org – Springboard is for students. It is divided into two main sections: the Career Test and the Career Exploration Tool. In tandem, these two interactive tools allow students to find some career inspiration and gain an insight into their different career options.

  • www.jobapplications.co.uk – this site has useful videos, demonstrating how to complete the online applications for many top companies in the UK, as well as providing detailed information on salaries and interviews. Applications forms can be printed off directly from this site.

  • jobs.telegraph.co.uk/careers – lots of information about specific sectors as well as advice on how to create a CV and prepare for interviews.

  • www.allaboutschoolleavers.co.uk – displays current apprenticeship and school leaver programme opportunities, to the latest school leaver job news, and gives career journey advice.

  • www.allAboutApprenticeships.co.uk – gives live apprenticeship vacancies, organised by sector or area. Also offers plenty of advice on making applications.

  • www.careerswales.com/en/cap/traineeships/ - Careers Wales search engine for traineeships.

  • www.careerswales.gov.wales/ - Careers Wales

  • CWRE Outline

  • CWRE Toolkit

  • Latest Issue of Make the Future Yours! — Make The Future Yours!

For more information on how to apply, please visit:

https://www.sgilcymru.com/en/job-description-criw-apprentice/

 

South Wales Police are excited to offer 10 x 8 Week Paid Summer
Placement Opportunities.

These Roles will be in a number of departments throughout the force.
The successful candidates will have the opportunity to have an insight
and gain experience of what it is like to work for South Wales Police.


This scheme will take place from the 1st July to 23rd August 2024.

To apply for these Roles please click on the link provided for each
individual Job Advert.

· 6549 – Summer Placement Corporate Services - Summer Placement
Corporate Services. - Police Jobs Wales (tal.net):
https://s-url.co/m-kOAA

· 6550 – Summer Placement Attraction and Engagement - Summer
Placement - Attraction and Engagement - Police Jobs Wales (tal.net):
https://s-url.co/nOkOAA

· 6551 – Summer Placement Community and Partnership Support -
Summer Placement Community and Partnership Support - Police Jobs Wales
(tal.net:
https://s-url.co/nekOAA

· 6552 – Summer Placement Community Safety Support - Summer
Placement Community Safety Support - Police Jobs Wales (tal.net):
https://s-url.co/nukOAA

· 6553 – Summer Placement Neighbourhood Policing Support - Summer
Placement - Neighbourhood Policing Support - Police Jobs Wales
(tal.net):
https://s-url.co/n-kOAA

· 6554 – Summer Placement Property Warehouse Assistant - Summer
Placement Property Warehouse Assistant - Police Jobs Wales (tal.net):
https://s-url.co/oOkOAA

· 6555 – Summer Placement EDI Administrative Assistant - Summer
Placement-EDI Administrative Assistant - Police Jobs Wales (tal.net):
https://s-url.co/oekOAA

· 6556 - Summer Placement ICT Support - Summer Placement -ICT -
Police Jobs Wales (tal.net):
https://s-url.co/oukOAA

· 6557 - Summer Placement Public Service Centre - Summer Placement
Public Service Centre – Police Jobs Wales (tal.net):
https://s-url.co/o-kOAA

· 6558 - Summer Placement Submissions Support Assistant - Summer
Placement- Submissions Support Assistant - Police Jobs Wales
(tal.net):
https://s-url.co/pOkOAA

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
Positive Action Team. PositiveAction@south-wales.police.uk:
mailto:PositiveAction@south-wales.police.uk

Kindest Regards

South Wales Police Positive Action Team.