What is Launch Your Career?
Introducing a pioneering and innovative VR and online experience that supports educators to deliver an engaging & personalised careers guidance program, preparing students of today for their journey into tomorrow.
With technology advancements driving the quest for more immersive experiences, greater connections and meaningful and personalised encounters, it’s time to embrace career discovery in a new dimension and start the journey today!
Launch Your Career is the worlds first career search and discovery experience that uses Virtual Reality to capture the imagination of young people, and immerse them into a journey of exploration.
Students are exposed to LMI data, exclusive career video content, 360º virtual FE and Workplace tours, Live and Virtual encounters with employers, and FE/HE providers, Live apprenticeship vacancies and course information, and a career database packed with thousands of career opportunities. Ever interaction is personalised using our Personality Type Theory, ensuring that every individual is presented with relevant career information, with the freedom to explore all opprtunities.
Our personality quiz centres around personality type theory, born from the workings and theories of Myers-Briggs and Carl Jung, and developed by our personality and career guidance expert David Hodgson.
David joined Launch Your Career to further his research and develop his personality quiz (which started off as the Buzz quiz which is used by career professionals all over the world) with the intention of extending the journey for students and creating a platform that really makes a difference for young people on their journey of discovery. David has worked with students and organisations all over the world, testing, researching and refining his work, ensuring that the young person is considered throughout and that the information is easily digestable and captures event the shortest of attention spans.
Our personality quiz is more than a 15 minute quiz, it aims to help young people understand themselves and others around them whilst presenting opportunites to them, and provides careers leaders in schools the opportunity to meet the needs of each student and with their guidance expertise, help them to thrive as they prepare for their next steps.
Launch Your Career is available to schools taking part in The National Careers Challenge with The Inspirational Learning Group in the UK.
Recommended Usage
Launch Your Career should be used with each year group as they transition through school. The Virtual Reality experience is ideal for getting students introduced to career guidance and motivated to think about their future, it is also a great way of inspiring disengaged students. Following this experience students can access their portal during career lessons/registration/ for homework to explore pathways of study, different careers, colleges and workplaces, live events and more.
Educational Impact
 Company | HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2014 |
| Age Range | 11-13, 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | Vr ExperienceVideo Content360° Workplace ToursApprenticeship VacanciesCareer DatabasePersonality Quiz Centre |
 Languages | English |
 Policies |  Privacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android |
 Set Up | Our onboarding process is seamless and our school delivery team are on hand to support you every step of the way. Once your school has signed our terms of use, we can help onboard your students and get you started! |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Our in school delivery team will dicuss all the options with each school to ensure we adhere to all policies. |
 Support | EmailPhone Support |
| Home Learning | Although our platform is not available to parents, the student portal is however accessible by the student and can be shared with parents at home. |
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Suprateem Acharya
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Used Launch Your Career weekly for 0–3 months
Jun 2022
As per my experiance, Launch My Career is just an awesome career builiding authority. But I didn't like some of the things happened here...I have completed 2 sessions of the whole Premium pursuit. The first session was just amazing......but the 2nd session was the worst one. Like it didn't help anything. I have not got the promised planning yet.
Suprateem Acharya found Launch Your Career:
- Moderately provides school data
- Does not significantly improve school processes
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Significantly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Jessica Pieri
Careers Advisor/Coordinator
Used Launch Your Career occasionally for 4-6 months
Dec 2021
There are just a few small tweaks to make it an all encompassing platform and therefore, a "no brainer" for schools.
Jessica Pieri found Launch Your Career:
- Does not significantly provide school data“We are yet to find a system that can manage our three years of destination data. It is currently completed on a spreadsheet! In order for us to move this to a system, we would need to have a way to log the destinations for each year group, send annual emails to them to update on their location and, if possible, this to then be automatically updated on the system.”
- Slightly improves school processes“Not yet, but this is because we are not using it to it's full extend! On our roadmap, we intend for all students to know their student animal/personality type by Year 9. This will be recorded so that when they come for their guidance appointment in Year 11, I know the best approach to take with them. This information can also be shared with teachers to support them to help the students in a classroom setting.”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“It could if we had better implemented it as it allows students to take control of their own careers planning, thus aiding the improvement of their wellbeing and focus in lesson (when focused, students are generally better behaved!).”
- Does not significantly improve attainment“Attainment is already very high within our school, we (Swindon Academy) are top of the leaderboard in our area for Progress8 Attainment. The focus here is very much on classroom management and curriculum learning.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“When used properly (!), yes definitely.”