English Career Resources

Key Stage 4: What is a Career?

Extensions

These are the questions used to conduct the interviews available in this resource.

If students each conducted one interview of an adult they know, you would have a much richer pool of data to draw on for the writing task.

Students can make recordings using the audio tool on many mobile phones, or any of their other 'digital native' gadgets.

• What does the word 'career' mean to you?
  
  
• How would you describe your career?
  
  
• Is this the career you imagined you would have when you were younger?
  
  
• How did you get into your career?
  
  
• How do you see your career developing in the future?
  
  
• Do you think careers have changed in your working life? If so, how?
  
  
• What advice would you give younger people as they start their working lives?