Engaging students to explore career ideas is no easy task. Many institutions and colleges often tag on career education around the core subjects or invite speakers in classes on occasional basis. Others have a more integrated approach and provide quality guidance activities with a career professional. Which ever end the institution is at, the vital need to have students thinking, exploring and being inspired on their future pathways remains important. When it comes to decisions on school subjects and options beyond high school, the need for clarity on their career plans becomes all the more necessary.
We at Career Guidance Charts seek to support the work of schools in providing careers information in graphic format. Our career posters and infographics suit a generation of students that want the information at an instant. We answer the question? What can I do with English? What can I do with Geography? with our range of career charts that point to potential pathways. It only needs a glance from a student whilst waiting for teacher, or standing in a queue to see one of our vibrant career posters that might inspire them to ponder for a moment a potential career pathway. For those students with no real ideas, the need for such infographics to engage them with where they can take a subject of interest or skill they have can prove incredibly helpful. Having displays in schools also adds the greater sense that a school is gearing its students to the future world of work. The intense reality of education and learning meets the external world of careers and points your students to the life that is beyond the four walls. With over 130 career posters in our collection, we are confident we can provide the career infographics you might need for class, corridor, career library or career resource area.
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The UK occupation list serves to outline the jobs in the UK where there are insufficient workers resident in the UK. Some of the key sectors that are in demand include IT, Healthcare, Engineering, Energy Sector, Creative and social care sector. This graphic outlines some of those roles in this single career poster. There are some interesting careers mentioned in the shortage list that include dancers and 3 D animators that illustrate some of the more specific roles, however there is more than could be done to encourage young people to consider some of the many STEM careers that are listed here. In particular, its worth mentioning the wide range of engineering occupations that the list details both electrical, mechanical and production engineers. We produce our own range of career posters to this affect in the STEM series but there's plenty more work that guidance advisors and parents can do to steer young people to consider these careers. We thought it was worth publishing a blog about the work that goes on behind the scenes at CGC. The challenge of producing a career infographic that not only contains good content but that can work visually on a classroom wall or in a school corridor is not that straight forward. The Process When we look at a new poster series it takes a lot of time and effort to not only research the career area but source the images that will work. Take our career chart series, a simple mind map. However it took us seven different revisions to find a graphic design format that we felt would work. Once that was done we began the task of researching the industry and its occupations. In general,.that process takes about a day to do, We then discuss them with professionals in the industry and make the relevant changes so the content is accurate. We try and source the latest occupations titles and seek to use the most common terms. Our collection is now in excess of 70 career charts and we're working on new ones all the time. Career Poster ideas When we decided to work on our new career grid series, we already had an idea of how it might look. The thought came from a graphic we saw in a local restaurant that got us thinking about how we could develop this new career poster. The challenging element came in researching the industries associated with the subjects we wanted to use and finding images that would work. You might think that would be as easy as plucking an image from a google search but it isn't. We have to purchase images under licence to use. and also try and ensure we have a mixture of people from different ethnic groups. What Next? We're working on a series of career infographics that have more icons and illustrations. These take a lot of time and thought to produce and we regular chat with other professional colleagues to gain their views on the content before finalising them. We've already got 7 in the set but there is more to come. So there you have it. It's just a poster but behind the stage their's a lot to bring a career poster into the limelight.
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Russ BannerI have 10 years experience of working in careers guidance and am director of CGC. We publish career infographics for schools and colleges Archives
November 2022
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