While some argue that it is too early for students to worry about careers given uncertainties about the future job market, this document recommends that students begin exploring careers now by reflecting on their skills, interests, and ambitions, as well as researching different types of work, so that they can take responsibility for their career path and make informed choices about their future. The world of work is changing rapidly, and gaining self-knowledge and researching options early allows students to lay their own "crazy paving" career path.

1. Why bother thinking about careers
now?

2. Unemployment
Low pay
Zero hours contracts
What are you going
to do when you leave
school?
I’m going to
university
I’m too young to
worry now
LA LA LA LA LA
Scare tactics don’t work

3. There s no such thing as a
career path – it’s crazy paving
and you have to lay it yourself.
Dominic Churchill

4. What you
learn about
careers now
will be out of
date by the
time you
leave school
The world is changing

5. You used to save work here

6. Now it’s more likely to be here

7. Your smartphone is smarter than 5 year old PCs

8. Not just computing

10. Get to know
yourself
•Skills
•Likes
•Dislikes
•Ambitions
Research types of work
you’re interested in
•Careers in science
•Jobs outdoors
•Caring professions
•Jobs using numbers
So what on earth do I do?

11. Above All
You have
responsibility for
yourself