Kudos Careers Program

							                    CGS GUIDE TO CAREERS SOFTWARE & WEBSITES
KUDOS
Start>All Programs>Careers>Kudos
                                                                       Kudos is a careers matching programme,
                                                                       designed to help you explore careers. It
                                                                       contains information on more than 1700 career
                                                                       titles.

                                                                       The programme will ask you questions about
                                                                       your likes and dislikes, qualifications you have
                                                                       gained or are studying for, and any health
                                                                       factors that may affect you.

                                                                       It will then match you to careers and provide
                                                                       information for you to find out more about them.

                                                                       It will help you to find careers that suit your
                                                                       personal interests - and may suggest some that
                                                                       you've never thought about before.

   It can look at careers that you are already interested in and see whether or not they really suit you.


CAREERSCAPE
Start>All Programs>Careers>Careerscape Multimedia


                                                                           •   Detailed career information on over
                                                                               1800 career titles

                                                                           •   Information updated three times a year

                                                                           •   Over 400 real-life case studies

                                                                           •   Over 80 articles covering education,
                                                                               training and employment

                                                                           •   Flexible access via the Internet; Live
                                                                               web and email links

                                                                           •   Salary and Labour market information




WORK EXPERIENCE DATABASE - VERYAN WEBVIEW ONLINE

www.learnaboutwork.org/devon




 The Devon Education Business Partnership
The Devon Education Business Partnership (EBP), vet and approve companies and organisations as            (EBP),
 vet experience companies and organisations as
workand approveproviders within the South West region. It is possible to access the EBP database          work
 experience providers online.
of approved employerswithin the South West                                                                region.
 It is possible to access the EBP database
 of approved employers online.
This will enable you to search for a placement out of school hours and also gives you access to a greater
number of employers than those held on the school's own database.
 This will enable you to search for a placement out
 of school hours and also gives you access to a                                                           greater
In the Spring/Summer term each year, Y10 students planning their Y11 work experience placement will be provided
                              those held on
 number of employers than to allow access to this website.
with a personal pin number
 the school’s own database.
 WORK EXPERIENCE DATABASE - SCHOOL'S OWN
 Start>All Programs>Careers>Work Experience Database

 A record of every employer used by students
 from this school over the past few years.

 May contain more personalised feedback than the
 Veryan Webview database.




 HIGHER IDEAS
 Start>All Programs>Careers>Higher Ideas




Higher Ideas can be used by students considering their A-Level choices, and also by A-Level students planning higher
education - to help with initial ideas. There is a database containing 16,000 courses at 550+ institutions, split into 600+
areas of study. Searches can be performed using current subject choices, students' interests and future career plans,
to identify HE courses that will be of interest.




 UCAS WEBSITE
 www.ucas.com




  UCAS is the central organisation that processes applications for full-time undergraduate courses at UK universities
  and colleges.

  There is a section called 'Apply' where students make their online applications.

  In the section called 'Course Search' you can conduct a search for courses by entering the degree subject required,
  an institution name or a geographical region to search in. The search result will give a list of institutions in
  alphabetical order with all the relevant courses they offer, together with information about the entry requirements for
  each specific undergraduate course.


  careersprogram-guide [Updated Nov 06]