Please use the below code to access the Employability, Skills and Careers Google Classroom for KS4/5:
gq2mody |
Employment and Skills 2025
Employment & Skills Event poster
Paragon Recruitment Prize Draw
Year 11 Careers Assembly Rota
Year 11 students will have the opportunity to attend a variety of different talks throughout the school year. They will be asked to sign up in tutor time for those they wish to attend. If anyone is interested in coming in to talk to our Year 11 students about their career, please contact BHSEnquiries@sch.im
03 October 2025 |
Scoill Phurt le Moirrey |
Teaching |
17 October 2025 |
Mrs Roome |
Employment and Skills presentation |
24 October 2025 |
UCM |
UCM Courses |
14 November 2025 |
Manx National Farmers Union |
Agriculture/rural/land careers |
21 November 2025 |
Nobles Path Lab |
Microbiology |
09 January 2026 |
Manx Care |
Nursing |
16 January 2026 |
Isle of Man Courts/Registry |
Legal/Registry careers |
13 February 2026 |
Vueling |
Airline industry |
06 March 2026 |
Barclays |
Banking/Finance |
27 March 2026 |
UCM |
Next Steps |
National Careers Week 2nd - 7th March 2026
Monday 2nd - Friday 7th March is National Careers Week (NCW) - a one-week celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people develop awareness and excitement about their future pathways
For further careers inspiration:
https://icould.com/explore/
On iCould you can search by job type or school subject and there is a wide range of videos.
https://careerswales.gov.wales/job-information/subjects
On Careers Wales you can find information about different jobs and their requirements.
https://studyworkgrow.com/category/work/job-spotlights/
Here you can find a range of you can filter by interest or area of study – there are some quite interesting options on this site.
https://signposts.sch.im/
DESC Careers Information, Advice and Guidance Service
KS4 Record of Experience
Editable Personal Statement template
Support & Guidance at Ballakermeen
We are justifiably proud of our careers education and guidance at Ballakermeen which runs throughout a learner’s tenure here. The school’s careers and employability policy takes its ethos and direction from the Isle of Man Government’s Careers Education and Guidance Framework and thecareers and education programme employs a vast range of diverse partnerships which help to fulfil an aspirational programme of careers support and guidance. These include (not exhaustive):
- Careers assemblies
- Careers interviews
- A number of visits to various careers exhibitions
- Working with external agencies including Junior Achievement, Inspiring the Future and Unifrog
- The school’s own PSHE programme
- Working with UCM to provide visits and extra support
- Mock Interviews for Year 11
Furthermore, our vocational curriculum offer continues to grow in partnership with BTEC, SQA, ASDAN and the John Muirs Environmental Award. Members of the SLT also attend the 14-19 and Employability curriculum meetings with the DESC which include staff from the careers service and UCM.
Useful Links
The list below contains links to a number of websites that contain useful advice relating to careers and higher education.
DESC Signposts Website
The DESC Careers Website ‘Signposts’ is a useful source of information for Key Stage 4 and 5 Students.
It has many useful links available on it and the DESC Careers Team are adding to this on a daily basis.