Features & Benefits of Launchpad

Benefits

• Local authorities
  Supports young people in your area to achieve more.
• Schools
  Provides a complete resource for the effective delivery of Key Stage 3 careers guidance.
  Supports elements of the PSHE and Citizenship curricula.
  Easily integrated into existing methods of delivery.
• Young people
  Develops awareness of options and promotes exploration of the world of work.
  Helps pupils make the right personal choices.
  Gives pupils the knowledge they need to make decisions about their future education, training and employment.
  Enables young people to gain support from parents/carers with use available anywhere with internet access.

Program features

• Skills profiling quiz provides results after just 20 questions
• Identifies Functional Skills strengths and areas for improvement
• PLTS (Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills) diagnostic tool
• Information on GCSE and Diploma subjects
• Built-in controls allow schools to just show options available locally
• Illustrates the skills needed to study subjects at Key Stage 4
• Highlights routes from subjects into careers
• Information on over 490 careers
• Over 300 high-quality videos
• Over 3,100 photographs of people in the workplace
• Case study interviews with people about their jobs
• Action Plan records achievements and encourages goal setting