Our dedicated careers team are here to provide you with advice on apprenticeships, UCAS applications, your future career, CV writing, interviews and job searching. They can guide you through your options with one-on-one meetings or small group sessions.
Curriculum areas arrange for guest speakers with a wealth of industry experience to visit campus throughout the year to share their knowledge with you in terms of skills and experiences of working in their specific roles. We hold annual careers fairs on campus for you to learn more about potential destinations and opportunities in different vocational careers.
Information, Advice and Guidance
Careers Guidance
Your time at college is valuable and how you spend it will determine what direction you take. We are here to help you make an informed decision – so make use of us while you can! We can offer support in the following ways:
- If you feel that you have made the wrong course choice in September, we can help guide you with transferring courses through our Swap, Don’t Drop activity that runs annually up to October half term.
- Whilst you are studying at college, we can help you to decide which career pathway is best suited for you by considering your interests and your abilities. We can also provide you with careers guidance in the year after you have left us if it is needed.
- We can guide you in finding out information on options and next steps available to you following your course – whether this be more education, professional training, gap years or entering the world of work.
- We provide 1:1 meetings with a careers advisor to guide you.
Information Advice Centre
We can signpost you to online materials to help you research different options that may help you decide upon your future career direction.
Useful Online Careers Resources
Want to know what you can do with your course? Our Careers and Enterprise site has a collection of all the best career information and job vacancy sites that relate to the vocational study areas offered by Reaseheath.
- Extensive information on careers and courses
- Useful sections on CV writing, interviews, job seeking and assessing your skills and interests
- Support with UCAS applications
- University Student Finance information
- Cheshire and Warrington Opportunities Portal
Career Service
“All students whilst on their study programme at Reaseheath College have an entitlement to a free impartial Careers and Guidance review with a qualified CEIAG Advisor”
The College’s careers service will help students with:
- Employability – Reaseheath will support you with CV creation, job applications and job interview preparation.
- List up to date job vacancies – part time vacancies prior to Easter half term – then full time after Easter half term
- Apprenticeships – looking at how to apply for an Apprenticeship
- Degree Courses and advice for those progressing to University – reviewing personal statements, UCAS applications, student finance and accommodation
Careers meetings are conducted by qualified careers advisors. You can contact them to make an appointment via email – careers@reaseheath.ac.uk – or speak to your progress coach who can arrange an appointment. Contact will be made via Microsoft teams and it is your responsibility to check and reply to messages.
The Careers & Progress Hub is situated in Jodrell Hall, next to our wellbeing office.
We have Matrix accreditation for the quality of IAG we deliver, and each year we have a Continuous Improvement Check with the Matrix assessor to scrutinise the impact of our careers programme. We are supported by the Careers and Enterprise Company and complete Compass evaluations, where we analyse the detail of our programme and its objectives. We contract to an external agency to conduct our external destination data gathering exercise, and they provide us with a detailed report on where our learners have ended up after completion of their FE course. This helps us understand how well we have helped to prepare students for their next steps.
Completion of work placement/experience is an essential component of the majority of our educational delivery at Reaseheath College and this is part of our careers programme in terms of finding employers, preparing for placement, and identifying goals that are to be completed during the work placement/experience itself.
Our student focused Pulse surveys enable us to understand how students feel the careers programme is helping to prepare them for their future plans. Gathering and the intended destination data from students in Term Two enables us to provide additional advice and guidance to students who may be a little unsure on what they would like to do after they have completed their studies at Reaseheath College.
Meet the team
This information is reviewed annually in June.
