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Home > Careers Service NI > Promoting the Careers Service
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About Careers Service Northern Ireland |
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Our MissionTo develop effective career decision makers leading to increased and appropriate participation in education, training and employment.
Our ApproachTo be professional in dealing with customers and committed to providing them with a quality service.
Our Careers Advice & Guidance ServiceThroughout Northern Ireland Careers Advisers based in JobCentres, Jobs and Benefits Offices and Careers Offices provide an all age advice and guidance service, to help young people and adults make informed choices about their future career paths.
Year 10
Year 12
18+
Additional Support Needs
Year 10After Christmas in Year 10, you will start thinking about what subjects you want to do for GCSE. Don’t worry if you don’t have a clear idea of what you want to do, help is at hand! Your Careers Teacher at school will give you a lot of help. A Careers Adviser may visit your school, talk to your class about choosing your options for GCSE and provide you with information.
Useful Links:Choosing GCSE Subjects and other courses
Thinking About A Career
Year 12At the beginning of Year 12, your Careers Adviser will speak to your class. You will have the opportunity to fill in a careers questionnaire called “Getting Connected”. This will start you thinking about careers and help identify where you are with your career choices and help you plan the way ahead. If you have been thinking about various jobs, Getting Connected will assist you further.
After this, you will get an opportunity to have an individual interview with your Careers Adviser who will give you advice and guidance on the following options:-
Useful Links:
Going to a College of Further and Higher Education Training
Getting a job
Self Employment
Voluntary Work
18+Careers Advisers, based in JobCentres / Jobs and Benefits offices and Careers Offices throughout Northern Ireland, can give you advice and guidance on any of the following
Useful Links:Further education
Higher education
Training
Getting a job
Change of Career
Self Employment
Voluntary Work
Redundancy
Additional Support NeedsAre you a person with any of the following which may affect your career choice?
- physical disability
- a medical condition
- a sensory impairment
- a general or specific learning difficulty
- emotional and behavioural difficulties
If you are, there are Careers Advisers based in JobCentres, Jobs and Benefits Offices and Careers Offices throughout Northern Ireland who have specialist skills. They can provide you with information, advice and guidance and will help you make realistic choices about your future.
These Careers Advisers can help if you are:
- in full-time education at school or college until aged 19
- considering training before your 22nd birthday
- already on a training programme
- unemployed
and thinking about
- staying on at school / leaving school
- moving to a college of further/higher education
- employment
- studying from home – via a local Further Education
College
- a Learndirect Centre – to access on line courses
If you are over 18 and looking for a job the Careers Adviser can refer you to the Disablement Employment Adviser (DEA) who will be able to help you.
Careers Service Support Unit (CSSU) is an all age careers information service based in Belfast. Post-primary educational establishments,Careers Teachers, Careers Advisers, JobCentres, Jobs and Benefits Offices, Careers Offices, training organisations, other agencies and the general public use this local careers information. CSSU also provides policy and compiles statistical returns.
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