Careers Information for Parents and Carers

Unifrog are our online careers platforms and are one-stop-shops for everything careers and progression related. It is packed full of useful tools from career profiles to CV building and personality quizzes to university course information. All students have access to the platforms right through school. Students will have opportunities to use the platforms in school through their UG time but can also log in at any time from home or a mobile device. We encourage parents/carers to use Unifrog alongside their children to find out what they have been doing and prompt discussions about their career ideas and aspirations. It is also possible for parents/carers to set up their own login for Unifrog. You can set goals and targets to keep your child accountable and help them achieve their ambitions. If you would like to set up your own Unifrog account, please contact us by email at (kitty.manhinyim@oasishadley.org) for a registration code.

Work Experience

We offer a work-related learning programme to from Y9 to Y13 where virtual or in person work experience opportunity is advertised to students to apply weekly. In addition, we offer all our students the opportunity to find and complete a one-week work experience placement in Year 12. Students are responsible for sourcing their own work experience placement. This is an important part of the process enabling them to develop their communication and organisation skills and build confidence. Students will be supported through this process in school by the Career, work experience and enrichment coordinator and their tutors. We appreciate your support in helping your child to secure a work experience opportunity and your own networks and contacts will be a valuable resource for your child in this process. Students in Year 11 to Year 13 can participate in a Career Day, an annual life day event which connects them with the world of work, providing CV /interview workshops, career fair, mock interview sessions, career talks. Post-16 and Post-18 Routes Moving on from school can be a challenging time for both students and parent/carers. Our students are well supported with careers information advice and guidance when it comes to making decisions about their post-16 and post-18 routes.

Career Guidance

We also offer parents consultation evenings and academic review days at key transition points to help you in your understanding of the decisions your child is making. Our Career coordinator is available for you to speak to with any questions or concerns at parents’ consultation evenings, or at any time via email (kitty.manhinyim@oasishadley.org). For information about your child’s options post-16, please see the National Careers Service information. For students leaving Sixth Form, the UCAS website is an excellent resource

Post 16/ 18 options

For information about our own Sixth Form, please see the Sixth Form pages on our website. Apprenticeships offer an alternative training route for school leavers either at age 16 or 18. These allow learners to begin work in a real job and learn on the job spending 20% of their time working towards a qualification with a training provider. Apprenticeships are available in a huge and growing range of different vocational areas, and at all levels from intermediate (equivalent to GCSEs) right up to degree apprenticeships. To find out more about apprenticeships please visit Amazing Apprenticeships where you can also download a monthly Parent Pack with information and updates specifically aimed at parents and carers.
Labour Market Information (LMI)
Labour Market Information (LMI) To help students make informed decisions about their futures, our careers programme equips them to be able to find and make use of up-to-date information about the local labour market. LMI can help young people and their parents/carers to understand the salaries and promotion opportunities for different jobs, and the volume and location of vacancies across different sectors.
You will be able to find reliable and up to date LMI in the “Useful Links” listed below. The government also funds a high-quality service called “LMI for all” which draws together official statistics and data to provide a current picture of the labour market in different sectors. This information can be accessed using the Careerometer on the link below: Careerometer

Useful links