Additional resources
Activity 2: The CV challenge
- Using LinkedIn, using social media for job hunting [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]
- CVs and application forms
- Personal branding for career success
- Career Skills for the 2020s
- Developing Career resilience
- How to Build Resilience at Work
- Understanding your sector
- Take control of your career: Labour Market Information (LMI) interactive
- Working in the voluntary sector
- Open door to success
Activity 3: Considering a job change
- Developing Career resilience
- Plan your career – several topics under this section.
- Succeed in the Workplace – A comprehensive resource covering work planning, understanding yourself, networking, voluntary work and planning next steps.
- Develop your career and career change
- Using labour market information to plan next steps
- Understanding your sector
- Working in the voluntary sector
Activity 4: Ideas for business
- Self-employment | Help Centre | The Open University
- Entrepreneurship BOC – from ideas to reality
- Entrepreneurship by older people: Case studies of people setting up businesses later in life
- Business and self-employed (GOV.UK) Help, advice and guidance on setting up and growing your business.
- Scope: information and advice for disabled people considering self-employment.
- GOV.UK’s business finance support finder gives information on extensive finance, grants and support directory, plus advice on other methods of financing your business for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- The Prince’s Trust
Conversations about your options
- Develop your career: Continuing professional development (CPD)
- Skills for work
- Moving forward from redundancy
- DWP skills tool kit
- The Federation of Industry Sector Skills and Standards and the National Guidance Research Forum give valuable information on employment trends across a range of areas. The Office for National Statistics reports on social trends in the UK.