The working group was set up to support hub schools to roll out the FSQ and in doing so identify gaps in provision, tailor careers activities to individual needs and measure progress of careers programmes over time.
There are five versions of the Future Skills Questionnaire, each tailored to transition points throughout secondary education and students with SEND.
She shared her insights about the FSQ with us.
We used it to identify gaps in our students understanding of their career paths. We read the questions to the students individually so were able to discuss the answers they gave.
It helped us to recognise what lesson plans we needed to put in place in order to improve their understanding of what is available for them after year 11.
Share with our careers adviser and repeat next year to track progress.
This is a tough one as we found that to answer the questions in the questionnaire we needed to simplify them and some of the questions they answered confidently but incorrectly, an example being the question 'do you know which websites to look for to find about jobs' and they all said yes - google. Because we were completing this questionnaire individually with our students we were able to factor this into our plans but if the students completed it without support we wouldn't have picked this up.
Maybe start off with a small group and provide individual support rather than just sending an email version.
