The aim of our Careers Programme is to ensure that you learn all the skills required to achieve your future career goals, build your aspirations and help you make effective decisions for your future.
The aim of our Careers Programme is to ensure that you learn all the skills required to achieve your future career goals, build your aspirations and help you make effective decisions for your future.
Throughout the year, all study programme students will receive:
- Access to a qualified careers adviser for confidential and impartial advice
- Ongoing support from a Personal Tutor
- Internal work experience opportunities relevant to your work-related course
- Work placement with an external employer relevant to your work-related course
- Help developing a CV
- Mock interviews to build your confidence
- Help to apply for apprenticeships and further education courses
- Industry-related guest speakers and workshops
- External industry visits to inspire your future career choices
- Annual Moving On event where you can meet with and speak to local colleges, universities, employers and training providers about what you will do when you progress from college
Gatsby Benchmarks
Our Careers Programme is based on the eight Gatsby Benchmarks to ensure we offer good career guidance to all our students.
They eight Gatsby Benchmarks are:
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career and labour market information.
- Addressing the needs of each student
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
Who to contact about careers?
- Amanda Tozer is the Career & IAG Lead at Greenbank and she holds a Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Career Development. Her role is to provide impartial career guidance to our learners, support with applications, CV writing and mock interviews and to coordinate the planning and delivery of our careers programme through staff training, audits and workshops.
- If you wish to book a guidance meeting or speak to Amanda, you can pop in to Room G32 or send her an e-mail: amanda.tozer@greenbank.org.uk
- Sophie Preece is our Recruitment & Work Placement Coordinator. If you wish to discuss work experience opportunities, you can contact her on: sophie.preece@greenbank.org.uk
Useful Links
Greenbank College Careers Strategy