Face to Face Careers
Guidance

A bespoke face to face careers guidance service for schools

Supporting a Careers Education, Information, Advice, and Guidance (CEIAG) programme by delivering personalised careers guidance isn’t just what we do – it’s our bread and butter, our DNA, our ‘thing’.

Our face-to-face careers guidance service is completely tailored to fit around your existing careers plan. By focusing on what really matters to you and your students, we provide a solution that’s practical, high-impact and great value for money.

We’re proud to be anything but ‘standard’. Our enthusiastic and knowledgeable advisers don’t just drop in and out – they become part of your school community. We take the time to really get to know your students, your values and your culture, so the guidance we provide feels personal, relevant and meaningful.

How we support you is entirely shaped by your needs. Whether that’s one-to-one guidance sessions for your Year 11’s or a more whole-school approach, we’ll tailor everything to suit you. This could include careers cafés, assemblies, careers roadshows, individual guidance interviews and support at Parents’ Evenings and Results Days – all helping you work confidently towards the Gatsby Benchmarks and meet your statutory responsibilities.

5 Point Approach to CEIAG

Our careers guidance approach is based on a 5-phase framework for action. This ensures your young people can access the most appropriate CEIAG for their needs and aspirations.

We want to understand your school needs and your students, so we can tailor our delivery to meet your needs.

What does your existing provision look like? How can we enhance that? What are the needs of your young people? What makes them tick? We take the time to understand you and your school.

If your school needs mostly one-to-one intervention, that’s not a problem. Or maybe group sessions will yield the best results to help inform your students. We’ll work with you to identify the best careers information, advice and guidance interventions for your school and get to work delivering just that. No distractions or additional roles, just a pure and impartial careers advice and guidance service.

Then comes the implementation stage where your dedicated Careers Adviser(s) and our leadership team will establish the implement the most effective careers guidance mechanisms for your students.

Our support for your Year 11s doesn’t stop when they go on study leave! No, no, no. We are there on Results Day to support those who don’t get the grades they’d hoped for and then we track them post-16, helping to support that transition wherever we can. We pride ourselves on providing added-value to schools wherever possible, and destination tracking is one such area where we will always go above and beyond to support our schools.

For us, getting the right careers advice whilst at school makes all the difference long term to a young person, which is why our team is so passionate about promoting what we do wherever possible. We pride ourselves on delivering a positive careers service that provides the impartial information needed by a young person to empower them to make informed decisions.

I feel much more confident with my future options, thank you so much!

Student from The Vale Academy

My son has got a smile back on his face and even said he’s excited to go to college and learn things that he wants to learn and is interested in. Karen has had such a positive impact on him and the change in him since our conversation is huge. Thank you so much, I know you’re only doing your job but you have gone above and beyond and helped massively. I really appreciate it!

Parent from Outwood Academy Hemsworth

Sean was really sweet and made it known that if I didn’t understand something I could just ask which made me feel a lot more comfortable in the meeting.

Student from Samworth Church Academy

Progress Careers have been an invaluable asset to our academy and have provided expert advice and guidance as we continue to develop our CEIAG programme.

Carlton Le Willows Academy, Delta Academies Trust

Very satisfied, got all the key information I needed and she answered all my questions I needed to ask and help me further look at my options.

Student from Darton Academy

How we support you

Find out just a handful of the many ways we can support you…

Access to iProgress

Digital tracking of all career planning tools

Accessibility tool

across all web pages to
ensure inclusivity

1:1 personal guidance
appointments

(Face-to-face and virtual options available)

Quality in
Careers Standards Award

Support and guidance to achieve

Full access to our
bespoke careers resources

tailored to all students.

Parent/Carer inclusion and support

with invitations to child’s 1:1 sessions

Dedicated Microsite

Top tips, information, advice and guidance for your students

CPD sessions

INSET day workshops for the
whole staff body

Data intelligence

key data-driven career insights, including
localised Labour Market Information

Benefits of working with us to deliver face-to-face careers guidance

Save yourself the costs of training your own in-house Careers Advisers/Leads by tapping into our expertise. All of our team are qualified to Level 6 in careers advice and guidance, or working towards this. They also have access to an extensive career adviser network where they can share best practice and collaborate to provide you with best possible careers advice.

Minimise the potential disruption to your careers programme by choosing us. If your allocated Progress Careers adviser is off sick for example, we will always do our best to cover that sickness with another member of our fabulous team, so your students don’t miss out.

There’s no need to invest in careers portals for your students or tracking software, we have taken care of that! We give our customers access to their own dedicated microsite, featuring a ‘Careers Discovery Tool’ powered by live LMI data, and iProgress – your one-stop careers app for tracking, reporting, and accessing your careers service.

As part of our offer, we support with driving best practice and careers collaboration across your school, Trust, region or Career Leads, because two heads are better than one!

Our team will be 100% focused on what you need them to deliver and the way they do this is with passion, enthusiasm, and friendliness. We are re-setting the stereotypical perceptions of careers advice and guidance.

When partnering with us to deliver your face-to-face guidance, schools get access to our wealth of digital careers resources from pull-up banners to corridor posters, free of charge.

Unlock our FREE careers resources…

Get instant access to a bundle of careers resources that inform, inspire and empower the next generation, supporting high-quality Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance for your students.

Get in touch with our team

Whether you’re looking to strengthen your careers provision, support your students with meaningful pathways, or explore how Progress Careers can work alongside your school or organisation – our team is here to help.

Ready to start the conversation?
Speak to our friendly team today and discover how we can support your goals.