Careers
Careers advisors appointed by the Harris Federation, work with students on career planning.
Our careers advisor is Mrs Lesley Tannock and she can be contacted at careers@harrischaffordhundred.org.uk.
Within the academy our careers programme is led by Ms Emerson-Morris; you can contact her at a.emerson@harrischaffordhundred.org.uk or 01375 484580
You can download our Careers Policy here
You can download our Provider Access Policy here
There are many issues that often crop up in interviews, such as students readying themselves for the job market, students looking at university, students considering apprenticeships or even self-employment? Often students are not sure what further learning they will need to be able to do a particular career. Many students are unsure what type of career would even suit them. These, and many other issues, form the basis of careers guidance at Harris Academy Chafford Hundred.
For more information please follow:
Events
Curriculum
LMI & Careers Information
Student Destinations
Local Apprenticeship Vacancies
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Careers Events at HACH 23/24
In service of students making their mark on their futures our visitors and events academic year 2023/24 have so far included:​
- London Philharmonic Orchestra workshops.
Jacqui Doyle-Price MP visiting our KS4 and KS5 students and participating in a lively political debate
- Artist in Residence Ian Murphy working with our talented artists
- Harris Healthcare Day covering a wide range of career options with Health
- Soccer Assist informing our talented football academy teams on USA Scholarship Opportunities
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, we had a range of inspirational BAME alumni present their career journeys to students ranging from music to fashion to investment banking and everything inbetween
Careers Events at HACH 22/23
Academic year 2022/23 included:
- Sir Geoffrey Owen talk with Year 12 and 13 about the opportunities of a globalised economy
- Next Tech Girls Event working with Year 9 girls on careers in computing and STEM
- Year 7 and 8 talk with an architect about the power in their industry of learning languages
- Whole school bespoke assembly from Saatchi and Saatchi alongside workshops for Y9-13 looking at real life advertising experiences of work. MORE HERE
- SEND Coffee morning with South Essex College
- Investment 2020 sessions for Year 10 - 13 about careers in investment banking
- NHS Careers Day
- Year 11 Futures Evening, featuring a number of local colleges and sixth forms
- An assembly for Year 9 by former Dragon's Den contestant and food entrepreneur Levi Roots about making your mark on the world of business.
- Into Careers Films Animation Workshop
- Careers Fair COMING SOON
Careers in our Curriculum
Next Steps
As times change, so does the need to reflect and deliver important careers information in the most useable and appropriate manner and format. For many young people - and adults alike- that format is the internet. It is accessible almost anywhere and, as long as it is suitably maintained, is pretty reliable.
Visit the Greater Essex Careers Hub YouTube Channel by clicking below
Careerometer
When considering exciting opportunities for future careers, it’s important to have a good understanding of employment prospects within different industries, ie. is it a growing or declining sector?
Please use our Labour Market Information for All widget below to explore which careers are projected to grow to help guide your decisions.
It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.
The websites shown below generally fall into that category and are entirely suitable for use by, and for, young people. If some of them seem confusing – and some are! – please come and see the Careers Adviser. Every website listed below is free.
- This is the national site for almost all apprenticeship applications nationwide. You will need to register an account with them (it’s free) but then you can search and apply for apprenticeships that you fancy doing.
- Great site for finding out where the local learning opportunities for post-16 are. Search by course, subject or even provider. So, you could use it to find out if a particular college offered a particular A Level or BTEC, or just look for where the nearest learning provider is that does the course you want.
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/
- Lots of useful information, including how to choose careers by using some of the on-line inventories available. Also points you to on-line help and call centres for careers guidance.
- Really user-friendly site. The ‘Buzz’ test is especially fun to do and might help reinforce career planning or help you think in a different direction. Great video clips and other careers tools to help young people decide.
- Great site for videos. It includes lots of people talking about their careers, what brought them into it and what the job is really like. You just choose the career area you’re thinking of and then choose who you would like to listen to. It's very inspirational and the videos are short.
- As it says, if you’re not thinking about university after Level 3 qualifications then take a look at this site. Not only is it packed with advice about opportunities but it also carries live vacancies. Not all the vacancies or opportunities will be in your locality, so you have to decide what to do at that point.
www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship
- Search online for current apprenticeship vacancies with a link to online applications.
- There are 350 careers in the NHS. Use this website to watch videos, read case studies and learn more about the largest UK employer with over 1.3 million employees.
Lots of career areas have sites that belong to their industry bodies. For example:
- Psychology - www.bps.org.uk
- Law - www.allaboutlaw.co.uk
- Health or medicine - https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/
- Teaching - www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching
- Journalism - www.journalism.co.uk
Student Destinations
| Year 13 Destination Data | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| DESTINATION | % of Yr group | % of Yr group | % of Yr group | % of Yr group | % of Yr group |
| Students going to Russell Group | 24% | 19% | 25% | 22% | 20% |
| Non-Russell Group | 57% | 50% | 51% | 51% | 51% |
| Oxbridge | 0% | 0.5% | 1% | 0.5% | 0% |
| Apprenticeship | 8% | 6% | 5% | 6% | 8% |
| Employment | 9% | 20% | 12% | 15% | 18% |
| Gap Year / deferring university | 2% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| NEET | >1% | 0.5% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| Year 11 Destination Data | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Destination | % of Yr group | % of Yr group | % of Yr group | % of Yr group | % of Yr group |
| Stay at Harris 6th form | 54% | 63% | 60% | 63% | 58% |
| Attend another 6th form | 10% | 10% | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| College / Further Education | 34% | 24% | 30% | 30% | 31% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 2% | >1% | 1% | 6% |
| Foundation course | >1% | >1% | >1% | 0% | 0% |
The most up to date Apprenticeship Vacancies in the local area can be found below in the page downloads
