Make career exploration easy with the new Pathways Cards

Help your students to explore career possibilities with this print-at-school Pathways Card pack

Getting students to talk about what they’d like to do when they leave school can be a challenge, and often it’s because they simply don’t know what the options are. With the new Pathways Card resource from Study Work Grow, you can help them to find what they might be interested in using a tried-and-true method: hand cards.

These practitioner-designed career exploration cards give you a structure, instructions, and lots of visual and engaging possibilities for them to consider. And best of all, you can print as many sets as you like at school for no extra cost.

What is in the Pathways Cards download?

This print-ready PDF resource gives you:

Full instructions

• Easy to follow (so you can learn how to use them quickly)
• Also includes adjustments for neurodiverse, low-confidence, and disabled/ill students

8 Interest Areas

• These are the career categories, covering Creativity, Enterprise, Environment, Mechanical Systems, Society, Technology, Travel and Places, and Wellbeing
• With these interest areas as a starting point, it’s easy to get students to choose the things they like

120 Pathways

• We know there is over 1,000 different jobs that people do these days, but that’s too daunting for students. So we’ve selected a range of 120 popular career paths to explore.
• On the back of each of these cards is an even wider range of career possibilities to consider.

They link to the Career Clusters too

Each Pathways Card (120) has a list of job ideas, sorted into six Career Clusters (Maker, Guardian, Informer, Coordinator, Linker, or Innovator roles). While the clusters are self-explanatory, it works even better if you also use these following the free Career Clusters Psychometric tool. That way students can instantly identify with roles that might match their cluster results.

Where can you use these cards?

The great thing about a print-at-school resource like this is you can print multiple sets, but you can also use them in one-to-one counseling sessions, small group sessions, or even in career education classes. They’re very flexible (we’d love to see how you use yours).

How will I get the cards?

The Pathways Cards come in a high-resolution print file. You’ll get a download link via email soon after your purchase. One more thing – we know you’ll absolutely LOVE these cards, so please send us a testimonial or some pics of you using them at school.