Careers & Employability Advice

Careers and Employability

At Highlands College, we are dedicated to providing our students with the support they need to embark on successful careers. Our Careers Advice and Guidance team offers a range of services to help students explore their career options, develop employability skills, and make informed decisions about their progression into the world of work or Higher Education.

Our Careers Education, Information, Advice, and Guidance (CEIAG) guidelines ensures that all students have access to high-quality, impartial careers guidance. These guidelines apply to all full-time and part-time learners and are designed to help students overcome barriers to progression, learning, and employment. We are committed to providing a stable and structured careers programme within the Future Skills Tutorials aligned with the Gatsby Benchmarks.

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Skills Development

We offer a variety of opportunities for students to develop their employability skills. This includes:

  • Employability and placement drop-in sessions
  • One-to-one appointments
  • Workshops and skills sessions
  • Access to our online learning platform, Navigate, to assess and develop employability skills
  • Partnership events that bring employers to campus and students to industry
Navigate
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Work Experience

We provide students with opportunities to:

  • Participate in work shadowing schemes
  • Undertake work placements
  • Engage in industry visits
  • Work with vocational experts within their curriculum
Work Placements
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Frequently Asked

Information for Parents

We recognise the crucial role that parents and carers play in helping students make informed career choices. 

At Highlands College, we provide parents with access to Labour Market Information (LMI), which show progression options and future career prospects for each course. 

We keep parents informed about their child's opportunities throughout the year by publishing a Careers Programme calendar.

What's after Sixth Form?

Not all students enter into employment upon completion of their sixth form course, in fact, around 50% choose to study further at university level.

Several of our courses have direct learning pathways into University College Jersey (UCJ), but regardless of whether students choose to attend UCJ, or whether they go further afield, we support them fully as they take this next step.

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