Information for schools in our nine boroughs
Resources for careers leaders
These resources have been produced by various careers organisations and consultants to help you enhance careers education:
Gatsby Benchmark toolkits
These toolkits are designed to equip professionals with the information and strategies necessary to guide students towards fulfilling careers.
- Benchmark 1 Toolkit - A stable careers programme
- Benchmark 2 Toolkit - Learning from career and labour market information
- Benchmark 3 Toolkit – Addressing the needs of each young person
- Benchmark 4 Toolkit – Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Benchmark 5 Toolkit – Encounters with employers and employees
- Benchmark 6 Toolkit – Experiences of workplaces
- Benchmark 7 Toolkit – Encounters with further and higher education
- Benchmark 8 Toolkit – Personal guidance
Careers and Enterprise Company - schools toolkit (pdf)
Careers and Enterprise Company - colleges and ITPs toolkit (pdf)
Guides to key local employment sectors
Our employer-led Local Skills Improvement Plan identified five priority sectors where businesses, educators, training partners and key stakeholders are working to close skills gaps.
To support this, we have commissioned resources for students and staff highlighting some of the roles, challenges and opportunities in each sector, plus Hospitality and Catering, in this part of London:
- Construction LMI (pdf)
- Creative and Digital LMI (pdf)
- Health and Social Care LMI (pdf)
- Hospitality and Catering LMI (pdf)
- Manufacturing LMI (pdf)
- Transport and Logistics LMI (pdf)
Working with careers hubs across London, we have produced a series of posters too providing insights into ten job sectors.
Download the posters here:
- Business and finance (pdf)
- Construction (pdf)
- Creative (pdf)
- Digital (pdf)
- Green (pdf)
- Health and Social Care (pdf)
- Hospitality (pdf)
- Manufacturing (pdf)
- Retail (pdf)
- Transport and Storage (pdf)
London Labour Market Information
Local labour market information supports students with career and study planning.
The London LMI platform will support your students on their journey to the world of work, to make their best next step and be employment ready.
The student-friendly content, lesson resources and data insights help schools and colleges to accelerate their journey towards the Gatsby benchmarks.