Do this regularly: Use a careers linked starter slide or video that shows how the lesson content links to a role / job., Organise an in lesson presentation from an employer over Skype / Google / Zoom, Organise an employer or education company to help run a drop down day with challenges / a competition., Run a department INSET at an employer’s site, with opportunity to take part in a tour / employer presentation.Highlight and provide opportunity to develop employability skills into the curriculum., Highlight and provide opportunity to develop employability skills into the curriculum., Organise a subject linked employer presentation / prizes at a parents evening / open evening / celebration evening, Use industry as an example for lesson content. This might involve samples of clothing, videos of different working environments, interviews with employees., Create a display in your classroom of what types of careers link to your subject and LMI data., Have flyers and brochures in classroom that link to further study. I.e. prospectuses, career path posters. “Where will ### take me?”, Set a homework to read a magazine article that you have found that links to the subject. Discuss at the start of next lesson., Had one or two goes at this: Add a piece of information about a relevant career to the worksheet for an activity or homework., Create a competition with an employer for students to compete in as part of their lesson / enrichment., Ensure that displays have role models that are diverse and cover a range of relevant sectors., Use employers as judges for internal competitions, giving students opportunity to present ideas externally., Share your own careers and study journey with students through a display, slide or notice on your classroom., Ask students to visit careers websites as part of worksheets or homework task for a subject., Ask students to do a survey with their friends about their opinions on a current topic related to the subject. I.e. fracking, driverless cars, Ask students to find out how their parents use part of your subject. I.e. how do they use maths as part of their job? Do they have to work with clients?, Ask students to watch a subject specific TV / YouTube clip and review the content. They could also recommend another clip for the class to watch., Find out what careers / skills are in demand in your local area. Link the need for local expertise to the skills learned in the lesson., Never done this: Organise a visiting speaker / employer to talk about the curriculum topic and how it links to their work., Organise an employer to support a club or competition. I.e. robotics, STEM club, engineering..., Run a club or competition. I.e. robotics, STEM club, engineering..., Take students to visit a workplace, linked to their curriculum topic., Attend a STEM Ambassador or career networking meeting and find out about local career events / volunteers., Use an example to show how the topic / skills the students are learning link to the world outside of school. I.e news story, product, person., Create subject linked career packs for parents to take away at parents evenings., Raise awareness of careers linked to a celebration day / week (I.e. Ada Lovelace day, Pi Day, STEM Clubs week, Tomorrow's Engineers week), Use student voice to understand about the career aspirations of students in your class. Use this information to plan relevant curriculum content., Set students the challenge to use 3 key words in a sentence with their parents and discuss their meaning., Show how 3 different people who do 3 different jobs use the same skill / knowledge that you have just taught., Highlight where a skill / knowledge in one lesson is used in another lesson. Try and link these common skills to people who might use them in industry.,

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