How the Career Accelerator programme achieves the Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance:

• Learning from career and labour market information: Career Accelerator focuses on preparing students for jobs in the modern economy. The employers who deliver the content in our programmes come from industries which are experiencing a growth in job creation and market size; these include: Cyber Security, FinTech (financial technology), HealthTech (health technology), EdTech (education technology), Tech Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Video Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, among others.
• Encounters with Employers and Employees: The workshops are designed to demystify what it’s like working in different areas of the modern economy. Career Accelerator is delivered by digital employers who have experience in their respective sectors.
• A Stable Careers Programme: Career Accelerator provides a holistic 3 month career programme providing workshops, mentoring and some work placements to ensure that students are receiving multiple methods of career support and that this is not done on an arbitrary basis.
• Addressing the needs of each pupil: Career Accelerator provides the students with personalised mentorship led by employees working in the digital sector, who they collaborate with to identify their career interests, build realistic and ambitious career goals and make steps to achieve these.
• Personal Guidance: Students will receive personal guidance to do with career planning during the mentoring sessions. The purpose of the mentoring is to help students reflect on their interests and strengths, learn about career planning and goal setting and develop realistic goals and a plan of action to achieve these.