Launch Your Career
Jessica Pieri

Careers Advisor/Coordinator

The Careers Lady - C/O Swindon Academy, Great Western Academy and Green Labyrinth Training, England

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.
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