I’ve been asked to evaluate a Career Guide Website – Your Career Guide, and I’m pretty excited.  In my junior and senior level English classes I like to do lots of college and career research with them so I have a ton of useful sites bookmarked and thought I may be adding this site to my favorites. It is a United Kingdom site, but after spending some time browsing, I think it has some very useful features.

As a teacher I am sometimes disappointed in our education system and the fact that it does not take into account that all of our kids are not college bound straight out off high school, but it appears after reading Your Career Guide that the United Kingdom is looking for some of those “leavers” in an articles where they discuss career opportunities for school leavers.

One thing I would like to see that I didn’t find on Your Career Guide is some basic information about careers. I found lots of detailed information that would be good if you already have an idea of what career you want to go in, but to be able to use this in my classroom activities with young students who are still unsure of their goals in the world, I’d like to see more basic information about a variety of careers in each field – hours worked, how much education it takes, average salaries, detailed job descriptions, etc – the things that my students need to take into consideration when deciding on their future after high school.

Overall I think the Career Guide website has great potential and would already be useful for those of us with focus and drive and who know what we want out of life, but may need some help getting there. As a business graduate, I evaluated that area of the site the most as that’s where my knowledge falls. In this area of the website, I found multiple articles that interested me enough to read more than the first paragraph or two. If you are looking for information about careers, check them out and see what you think.