Get Connected Plus: digital careers platform

Bring the power of a careers professional into any lesson, any time.

Get Connected Plus brings together interactive careers activities, live chat and valuable data insights – helping you to deliver a careers programme with measurable impact.

Get Connected offers schools and colleges a simple careers solution. Students can access interactive digital careers information and advice, whilst staff can use the system to track interventions, log interactions and analyse data in a few clicks.

Designed by careers professionals

Get Connected is designed and curated by our professionally qualified careers advisers, and is suitable for use in secondary, further education, SEND and alternative provision settings.

Our platform is designed to contribute to your institution’s personal development curriculum and inform and inspire students as they explore their career options across Years 7-13. It also provides useful data insights to support schools in their careers planning and monitoring.

View the video on the right to see an example.

Careers advice at the click of a button with live chat

Our new live chat feature allows schools to bring an extra careers expert into any classroom, helping embed careers across your school or college curriculum.

With a click of a button, students and teachers can chat to fully qualified, impartial careers advisers, ready to answer questions and signpost to useful resources.

A screenshot of the digital careers platform Get Connected showing several available lessons

Streamlined for easy data insights

With more than two decades of delivering in-school careers services, we understand the demands on time and resource that schools face.

That’s why we’ve kept Get Connected streamlined, providing simple but valuable data analysis features that we know schools will use – and none that they won’t.

Gather information on student careers activity and learning, aspiration, and intended destinations at the click of a button.

A screenshot of the digital careers platform Get Connected showing the admin view

Evidence your impact and meet Gatsby benchmarks

Our Teachers’ Zone allows schools to monitor careers learning and access valuable student insights to evidence careers provision against Gatsby Benchmarks.

Track student activity to gain real-time insights into your students’ career aspirations and intended destinations – and plan and monitor your careers programme accordingly. View data at individual, cohort and whole-school levels.

A screenshot of the digital careers platform Get Connected showing the admin view reporting dashboard

For your school or college

  • Bring your careers activities, monitoring, and analysis together in one place, and understand the full impact of your career-related activities
  • Dedicated Teachers’ Zone. Log interventions, track students’ progress, and view statistics and trends. Analyse whole year groups, cohorts or individual activity
  • Easy reporting that saves time, resource and effort. Fully compatible with MIS systems. Build in your own student data for more detailed reports
  • Gain valuable insights from student aspirations and intended destinations to inform and strengthen your careers offer – and use this evidence to meet Gatsby benchmarks
  • Connect to professional careers advisers with live chat – bringing extra careers expertise into any classroom
  • Activities and content that is fully aligned with Gatsby Benchmarks, and learning outcomes that are mapped against CDI (Careers Development Institute) frameworks
  • Full technical support throughout set up and implementation, and a dedicated account manager
  • Flat pricing structure, with no hidden costs.

For your students

  • Easy to navigate, with activities and content tailored to year group and transition points. From exploring strengths and interests in Year 7, to advice on choosing the right university in Year 13
  • Interactive sessions to keep students engaged with career planning – videos, articles, modules and quizzes designed and curated by our experienced careers advisers. New content added regularly
  • Assessments of learning to consolidate understanding
  • Careers planning merged with personal development. Get Connected is designed to underpin school careers programmes while also complementing the PSHE curriculum.
  • Students and teachers can log careers planning and activities in one place. Allowing students to reflect on their journey from years 7-13 and helping them feel prepared when it comes to applying for college, university, training or a job.
A careers adviser talking a group of students through how to use an online careers platform

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