Useful Websites
This page is divided into the following sub-sections to help you locate information that is relevant to your needs:
- CEIAG links
- Careers and progression
- Local colleges and sixth form colleges
- Local sixth forms and academies
- Information about apprenticeships
- Apprenticeship providers and vacancy search tools
CEIAG links
Gatsby Benchmarks: https://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career-guidance
DofE: https://www.dofe.org/
Careers and progression
- Business Birmingham, to explore the growth sectors of business and industry in Birmingham
- Birmingham Careers service
- Careers Pilot, a one-stop website for information on qualifications, option, jobs and much more
- Career map – job searching for 16-24 years of aged people
- College and sixth form open days
- Information about job sectors
- Juniper Training (apprenticeship and training provider)
- Novo Training (apprenticeship and training provider)
- Resume builder, in demand skills
- Resume builder, templates
- Resume builder, create a resume
- Resume builder, how to write a resume
- STEM
- UCAS
- UCAS explore jobs, to search jobs by skills or subjects
- Work Pays, training provider that offers training and supportive programmes
Local Colleges and Sixth Form Colleges
- Access Creative College
- ACM (specialist music college)
- BIMM (Music) College
- Birmingham Metropolitan College
- Cadbury Sixth Form College
- Colmers School and Sixth Form College
- Halesowen College
- Heart of Worcestershire College (Bromsgrove, Redditch and Worcester)
- Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
- King Edwards VI College, Stourbridge
- Sandwell College, West Bromwich
- South and City College Birmingham (including Longbridge Bournville College Campus)
- Solihull College & University Centre
- Solihull Sixth Form College
- University College Birmingham
Local Sixth Forms and Academies
- Academy for Young Engineers, Solihull
- Aston University Engineering Academy
- Birmingham Ormiston (Creative Digital and Performing Arts) Academy (BOA)
- Bishop Challoner Sixth Form
- Central St Michael’s Sixth Form
- Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School Sixth Form
- King Edwards @ Five Ways
- King Edwards @ Camp Hill
- King Edwards @ Aston
- Kings Norton Girls’ School Sixth Form
- St Thomas Aquinas School and Sixth Form
- University of Birmingham School Sixth Form
Information about Apprenticeships
- 101 Amazing apprenticeship activities for schools and students
- All About School Leavers – options
- Amazing apprenticeships, promoting the benefits of apprenticeships
- Apprenticeships – what are the facts?
- Festival of Apprenticeships Fair
- Find Apprenticeships
- Get my first job – Find apprenticeships, degree apprenticeships and work experience
- Government – Find an apprenticeship near you
- Juniper Training (apprenticeship and training provider)
- Ladder for Birmingham – championing apprenticeships in Birmingham
- Novo Training (apprenticeship and training provider)
- Rate my apprenticeship
- UCAS – How to find an apprenticeship near you
- Which? – guide to Higher and Degree apprenticeships
Apprenticeship Providers and Vacancy Search Tools
- All About School Leavers – vacancies
- Army apprenticeships
- Baltic Digital and IT apprenticeship – vacancies
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust – vacancies
- Birmingham Children’s Trust, Social Work – vacancies
- Birmingham Electrical Training
- Birmingham Metropolitan College – vacancies
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospitial NHS Trust – vacancies
- City and Guilds – vacancies
- Civil Service – vacancies
- Creative Alliance – vacancies
- Energy Utilities Jobs
- Heart of England Training – vacancies
- Jaguar Land Rover – vacancies
- Juniper Training (apprenticeship and training provider)
- KPMG apprenticeships
- Make UK – vacancies
- NEC – vacancies
- Network Rail – vacancies
- NHS – vacancies
- NotGoingToUni apprenticeship search tool
- Novo Training (apprenticeship and training provider)
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust – vacancies
- South and City College – vacancies
- SpringPod – search engine
- The Royal Air Force apprenticeships
- The Royal Navy apprenticeships
- The University of Birmingham – vacancies
- University College Birmingham – vacancies
- University Hospitals Birmingham
- Virgin Media – vacancies
- Youth Employment UK
Armed Forces
Students can also choose to join the armed forces and each year there are typically between 1 and 3 KNBS students that choose this route. Click on the hyperlinks for more information: