What is CEIAG?
CEIAG stands for Careers
Education
Education is when you learn things. When you fill in a form to get a job, education means you write where you went to school, college or university.
, Information, Advice and
Guidance
Guidance means being given clear instructions to be able to do something well.
. At the Mencap Training Academy, we help learners on our programmes develop the
knowledge
Knowledge is knowing a lot about something.
and skills they need to make informed choices, supporting them along their career journey. Our programmes have careers advice, information and
guidance
Guidance means being given clear instructions to be able to do something well.
embedded within them and cover a range of career activities designed to build learners' confidence and help them get the job you want.
Example activities are shown below and in our careers journey roadmap:
- Career quizzes
- Vocational profiling (when we support you in making a plan that will help you make choices about your jobs and future).
- Skills assessments
- Labour market information (this is information about how many work opportunities are available in different job sectors and industries. We explore this information with you to help you understand your career options).
-
CV
A CV is also called a Curriculum Vitae. It is a document with information about: your skills, your qualifications and any jobs or volunteering you have done. You may have to send a CV when you try to get a job.
workshops - Employability skills workshops
- Employer encounters
- Level 6 career meetings and plans (a level 6 careers meeting is a one-to-one meeting with our expert Careers Advisor).
- Training and education provider encounters
- Careers conversations
- Careers fairs
-
Interview
An interview is a meeting where you talk to someone or a group of people about something. When you have an interview for a job, you have to answer questions and say why you would be good at the job. The person who gives the best answers is offered the job.
techniques -
Work experience
Work
experience
Experience is when you have learned or tried something before.
is when you try out a job to help you learn new skills.
- Taster days
Careers meetings
As part of our CEIAG offer, careers guidance meetings are available to all learners on our supported internship and pre-internship programmes. A careers guidance meeting is an impartial, one-to-one meeting between yourself and a professionally qualified careers adviser.
Careers guidance you can trust
We recognise that effective careers guidance is the driving force to securing positive futures. We use an evaluation tool called Compass to plan, deliver and evaluate the careers activities within our programmes against the 8 benchmarks of best practice known as the Gatsby Benchmarks.
These provide a framework for careers guidance, outlining the experiences and information every learner on our programmes should have access to, so they can make informed decisions about their future.
Support from a qualified careers advisor
Learners on our programmes have access to our Level 6 qualified careers leader who is a member of the Career Development Institute (CDI). The Career Development Institute (CDI) are a trusted body that qualified career development professionals are registered with, following their code of ethics.
Our matrix accreditation
The matrix Standard is an international standard for information, advice and guidance (IAG) services.
Earning this accreditation shows that we are meeting the highest standards in providing personalised impactful IAG. Currently, we hold a Gold matrix Standard.
The matrix Standard is owned by the Department for Education.
I now have a clearer understanding about job ideas.”
My career meetings were useful and helped with my learning and understanding of labour market information, career pathways and how to manage my own career.”
Organisations who offer additional careers information
There are lots of other
organisations
Organisations are groups like companies and businesses.
who can provide useful information, tools and resources about careers.
Select from the options on the right to find out more.
Introducing our Careers Leader
Maggi Pugh is our named Careers Lead in England.
We proactively seek to build
relationships
Relationships are about the people in your life. You might have different types of relationships like friendships, family relationships, or a boyfriend or girlfriend.
and positively welcome contact from providers relating to pathways available. If you are an employer or education provider requiring more information please get in touch.
