Career profiles and videos

The National Careers service has a range of job profiles for computing, technology and digital. Each profile includes routes into each career, average salary, typical working hours, and progression routes into further careers.

All About Careers has a range of job profiles for IT and technology. Each profile includes routes into the career, average salary and progression routes into further careers.

This video from Gradcracker explores the different industry sectors and employers that a computer graduate could work for.

This video shows Maryam, an engineer studying at Aston University - discussing her experiences studying BSc Computing Science.

This resource links to a video and career profile for an ethical hacker. The video explores the type of work that an ethical hacker is involved in, supported by the profile of Safiyyah Azizan, an Ethical Hacker working for BT.

Roland studied for a diploma (MSc equivalent) in computer science and was originally interested in being a software engineer. However, during his diploma he worked in bioinformatics and found the use of computers to address specific biological problems really interesting.

Prospects provides careers profiles that information on skills, activities, salary, working hours and progression routes.

Elysia is an Information Services Degree Apprentice who works for Anglian Water. She explains her journey from GCSE computer Science to apprenticeship.

Quality AssuredCategory:CareersPublisher:British Beauty Council

A video exploring careers in technology in the beauty industry looking at examples such as using augmented reality to try products on and creating make-up for the metaverse.

Quality AssuredCategory:CareersPublisher:Royal Society

Professor Brian Cox joins a teacher in a classroom to demonstrate the setting up and carrying out of the experiment for pupils to develop their own rules/algorithms for sorting sweets and aliens and look at the effect that increasing the size of the data set has on the activity.

The additional videos include interviews with Rose McCarthy and Dr Douglas Barnes from Unitary, a company specialising in the use of machine learning systems to reduce the amount of online moderation done by humans. A final video is from Cardiff University to meet Professor Pete Burnap, to learn more about cybersecurity and the research being done into technologies used to make our public spaces safer. The videos feature a focus on the skills required to work in these areas and offer young people an insight into which subjects and skills they may wish to pursue later in school and beyond. These could be a useful tool for careers teachers and form tutors.