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Careers Our role is to help your son build a solid foundation for his future career management. By helping him to understand his aptitudes and abilities, skills and interests we aim to support the transition from school to university and the working world. As part of the whole school’s commitment to encouraging breadth of opportunity and motivation to follow his passions we aim to translate his time at Merchant Taylors’ into career decisions that will be rewarded with fulfilment and success. We offer a full programme of education and guidance including a wide range of lessons and activities, dedicated career days and events, guest speaker programmes, insights and lectures targeted appropriately, as well as a work experience placement. We support the academic team, boys and parents by being available for parent consultations and school information evenings. In Year 10, the careers programme introduces employability skills and CV writing. In Year 11, we host our own Career Convention to help our students continue to explore career opportunities and this event is supported by many parents and old boys and girls who share their own career experiences. We are very keen supporters of the Young Enterprise Programme as well as other business competitions, encouraging teams to develop their business skills, with many successful outcomes. The Morrisby Psychometric Profile is taken in Year 10, helping boys to identify aptitudes, abilities and personal qualities along with their own area of interest. Individual feedback meetings are given to each student. Where a student may have a vocational career in mind, such as medicine or dentistry, specialist advice is on hand from the careers team working closely with academic staff. Applying to university marks a very exciting time in a boy’s school career and at Merchant Taylors’ this process begins as early as Year 10, starting with advice on how to begin their research into courses and universities through formal testing and information delivered via assemblies and careers events. There are more than 50,000 degree courses on offer in the UK and we pride ourselves on the support we give to our university applicants, through the documentation supplied and the expert advice that is given throughout the process by our experienced UCAS advisers. We have an outstanding record of helping boys to secure their first-choice university place. Mrs V. Mee, Head of Careers and Head of UCAS v.mee@merchanttaylors.com
