For Parents & Carers

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Supporting Your Child’s Career Journey

As a parent or carer, your encouragement and conversations play a vital role in shaping your child’s future aspirations. We aim to keep you fully informed about local labor market insights, study options, and critical decision-making milestones.

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  • Parent Information Evenings and Assembly Links

  • Key Transition Milestones

    • Year 8: GCSE Pathways Choices & Pathways Evening.

    • Year 10: Work Experience Preparation & Employer Insights.

    • Year 11: Post-16 Applications (A-Levels, T Levels, Vocational Courses, Apprenticeships).  

  • Home Engagement & Resources

    • Talking Futures: We recommend using the CEC-backed Talking Futures toolkit, which provides practical tips, conversation starters, and guides to help you explore post-16 and post-18 pathways with your teenager at home.

    • Labour Market Information (LMI): Discover which employment sectors are growing locally in our region by viewing our termly (See further information below).

    • Parent Feedback: We continually evaluate our careers delivery to ensure it meets student needs. Please take 5 minutes to complete our annual Parent Careers Survey Link.

  • Labour Market Information

    LMI stands for Labour Market Information. In short, it refers to any relevant information about the current state of the jobs market.

    LMI can include information like:

    • The industries and businesses that operate in a certain location.

    • The types of jobs that exist and what they involve.

    • How many of those jobs there are.

    • The skills that are currently or will be in high demand.

    • Commute and travel to work patterns.

    • Typical rates of pay.

    • Career progression opportunities.

    If you’re job hunting or will be soon, learning about LMI will help you to understand what opportunities are available to you and how you can best take advantage of them. If you’re already in a job, LMI can give you some insight into how you might be able to grow in your career, what opportunities to advance are available to you, and how.

    Based on LMI, you can decide things like:

    • Are there job opportunities for me where I live, or do I need to consider relocating for the career I want?

    • Does the pay for my dream career align with how much I’d like to earn? If not, am I okay with that?

    • How long will it take me to rise through the ranks in my career to my desired position, and am I willing to do the work to get there?

    • How competitive is my industry? Do I have a backup plan if it doesn’t work out in the way I want it to?

    • Is college, university, an apprenticeship, or working my way up from an entry level job the right path for me?

    Wildern students can access up to date LMI information through a number of sources, most notably being their Unifrog accounts, but also through the newsletters and websites below:

    • The Office of National Statistics

    • The Southampton Data Observatory

    • The Career Coach