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Free Resources

Free guidance for every stage of the journey.

Career guides, degree checklists, and planning workbooks — all free for students, parents, and careers professionals.

12 free resourcesNo login required to readStudent-friendly and practical

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Career choice guides

Useful starting points for students who feel uncertain, students reviewing their report, and the adults supporting them.

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Students / Start Here / Career Guidance

Career Guidance for Students

A complete guide to exploring careers, understanding your options and choosing your next step.

Practical advice for comparing careers, researching pathways and making more informed decisions about your future.

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Students / Start Here / Career Choice

How to Choose a Career

A practical six-step process for students who have no idea what career they want.

Move from interests and strengths to a researched shortlist, small experiments and a realistic next step.

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Students / Parents / Report Guide

How to Read Your Career Report

Understand your Personal Match and Opportunity scores, live market labels and suggested next steps.

A clear guide to interpreting labour-market and graduate data without treating any score as a verdict on your future.

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Students / Parents / GCSE Results

What to Do After GCSE Results

Compare sixth form, college, T Levels and apprenticeships after receiving your GCSE results.

A practical guide to reviewing your results, researching future careers and choosing an informed next step.

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Parents / Carers / Conversation Guide

Help Your Teen Choose a Career

A parent and carer guide to supporting career decisions without adding pressure.

Includes conversation prompts, route comparisons and ways to test an idea before committing.

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Make a decision

Practical planning tools

Use these when you are comparing options or turning ideas into a plan.

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Students / Parents / Checklist

Degree Decision Checklist

35 essential questions across 8 categories to ask before committing to any degree.

Jobs, salary, demand, AI impact, competition, and personal fit — covered in 20 minutes per degree.

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Students / Parents / Pathways

Apprenticeship vs University Guide

An honest comparison of degree apprenticeships, higher apprenticeships, and university routes.

Helps students choose the right pathway for their goals, career, and financial situation.

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Students / Careers Advisers / Workbook

Career Planning Workbook

A structured workbook to help students explore, shortlist, and commit to a career direction.

Includes values exercises, strength mapping, research frameworks, and an action planning section.

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Understand what is changing

Career and future-skills guides

Explore growing fields, labour-market change and the skills likely to matter.

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Students / Teachers / Rankings

Top Career Pathways by Certyz

A ranked guide to the 20 degree areas with the strongest career outlook and graduate demand.

Covers technology, healthcare, engineering, and business — with why each degree ranks well.

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Students / Careers Advisers / Careers

Fast-Growing Career Paths

Eight career areas where graduate demand is expanding fastest — and the degrees that lead to each.

Includes why demand is growing, key skills to develop, and relevant degree routes.

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Students / Teachers / AI & Future Skills

AI Impact on Careers

See how AI may reshape different career areas — from roles likely to change significantly to careers where human skills remain central.

Uses Low, Medium and High AI impact ratings, with the human strengths and future skills students should develop.

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Students / Teachers / Futures

Future Skills Guide

The skills that will matter most in the next decade — and how to build them at university.

Covers AI literacy, systems thinking, communication, and the human skills machines can't replace.

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Not sure where to begin?

Start with your own career matches.

Complete the free assessment, then use the resources above to investigate your recommendations in more depth.

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Certyz gives careers leaders, sixth form tutors, and senior leadership teams a full platform to guide every student from subject choices to university application.

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