Thanks for scanning the QR code in one of the workbooks that has brought you here!
Detailed below you will see hyperlinks to relevant sites and blank copies of exercises for you to download and print if you need more space than that available in the book.
If you spot other websites that are useful when you are choosing what to do next, please let me know so I can add them in. I want this to become a hub of knowledge.
Likewise, if you spot a link from here that isn’t working, please let me know in case you’ve found that before I do.
These are the links that are referenced in each of the workbooks. Beneath these lists you will find more information to help your research for whichever decision point you are at.
Section One – Voices
Skills and Strengths Exercises — National Careers Service
Needs and Motivators of Young People — UCAS
Job Options — National Careers Service
Dealing with Exam Stress — Young Minds
Templates:
Lifeline
Worries
Personal Assessment
Career Ideas
Section Two – More Voices
Templates:
More Voices
Control
Self-Summary
Section Three – Visualising Options
Education hub (DfE)
Info about – subject based qualifications, apprenticeship, international B, part time volunteer and study, vocational qualifications, part time work and study
Templates:
Visualise your options — roads you could take
Researching your options — pros and cons
Ranking your options
Looking Ahead — Self-Summary
Section Four – Making a Plan
Interview Tips
Making a Plan
Tie It All together
And for your next decision point, 18 and Stuck? is available!
Section One – Voices
Skills and Strengths Exercises — National Careers Service
Needs and Motivators of Young People — UCAS
Job Options — National Careers Service
Dealing with Exam Stress — Young Minds
Templates:
The Story of your Life
What’s in your head?
Personal Assessment
Career Ideas
Section Two – More Voices
Templates:
More Voices
Control
Self-Summary
Section Three – Visualising Options
Education hub (DfE)
Info about – subject based qualifications, apprenticeship, part time volunteer and study, vocational qualifications, part time work and study, traveling
Templates:
Billboard — the options to consider
Visualise your options — roads you could take
Researching your options — pros and cons
Ranking your options
Looking Ahead — Self-Summary
Section Four – Making a Plan
Interview Tips
Making a Plan Template
Tie It All Together
And for your next decision point, Out of Uni and Stuck? is available! Coming in 2026 Mid Twenties and Stuck?
Section One – Voices
Skills and Strengths Exercises — National Careers Service
Needs and Motivators of Young People — UCAS
Job Options — National Careers Service
Dealing with Exam Stress — Young Minds
Templates:
Bricks of your Life
Emotional Baggage?
Wall of Success
Career Ideas
Section Two – More Voices
Templates:
More Voices
Control
Self-Summary
Section Three – Visualising Options
Info about – subject based qualifications, part time volunteer and study, vocational qualifications, part time work and study, traveling
Templates:
The World is Yours — the options to consider
Visualising your options — pros and cons
Ranking your options
Looking Ahead — Self-Summary
Section Four – Making a Plan
Interview Tips
Making a Plan Template
Tie It All Together
And for your next decision point, coming in 2026 Mid Twenties and Stuck?
Research information to assist you with making your next choices. Please do get in touch if you come across a site in your own research that you think will help others so that I can consider adding it here.
Student interviews — watch interviews with students and people in early careers talk about how they chose what they wanted to do. You’ll notice that almost all of them had worries, concerns, and sometimes no idea of what they’d do!
Kayleigh Fryer – At the time of the interview, Kayleigh worked 9-5 at Reading Students’ Union as the Events and Belonging Coordinator. Empowering the student body to cultivate community through relevant and engaging events. And 5 – 9 is a skilled photographer, mostly shooting gigs, events, and promo shoots. Kayleigh co-founded a publication and network, Out of Rage, designed to create a community of heavy music lovers and help them into the industry as reviewers, photographers, interviewers, artists, and more.
Holly Hobbs – Holly started her career on an apprenticeship programme at Microsoft before going on to set up her business – Apprentivia – The Early Talent Employer Branding Agency, where she helps employers attract & develop young talent 
. Holly is an early career employer branding strategist and has an online community of 40k+ and is a regular speaker.
Sophie Broome – Sophie describes herself as “A girl in her 20’s trying to navigate the marketing world”. She talks in her profile about the result of her degree feeling like the end of the world but has learnt to see the positives. I know a lot of people will relate to what Sophie shares, which is why I’ve asked her to come on and chat.
Ethan Cobley – Ethan is a Data Analyst at SplashBI, on an apprenticeship programme with University of Sussex. He was one of the newest apprentices at the University. We talk about his reasons for choosing an apprenticeship over full time study for a degree. We chatted about how work experience helped Ethan decide on an apprenticeship, and how he finds the balance of work and study.
Information about possible options for the next stage:
Subject Based Qualifications post age 16
Subject Based Qualifications post age 18
Subject Based Qualifications post Uni
Apprenticeships
Volunteering
Vocational Qualifications
Traveling
Graduate Programmes
Early Careers