Explore our collection of classroom resources focused on careers guidance. These resources for primary and secondary schools could be used to mark National Careers Week, which takes place every year.
When is National Careers Week 2026?
National Careers Week 2026 takes place from 2-7 March and aims to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar.
What is Bitesize Careers?
Bitesize Careers offers support for your students planning for the future with over 350 job case studies from people who've found the right path for them.
They've also produced a series of panel discussions exploring jobs in:
For teachers specifically, read our Teacher Support article where you can get handy tips and advice on how you can use Bitesize Careers resources for NCW.
BBC Bitesize Careers has some great advice from leading careers experts and over 350 job case studies from people who've found the right path for them. See the link at the bottom of this page for more information.
Ronnie Burn:
Bitesize Careers is an excellent new resource for teachers, careers leaders and students alike.
Cherakee Bradley:
Careers content is very inspirational. The video clips use young people, just like the people we work with.
Sue Taylor:
On watching the videos, I was pleased to see that there were lots of different accents, faces, ages and so, students could find something that they could really identify with. I liked the fact it had lots of practical shots of people doing real work, because I think school students sometimes don't really know what the workplace looks like.
Ronnie Burn:
The resource offers real young people embracing opportunities and using their skills and competencies that they have in order to gain.
Neil Willis:
There are over 200 different features. Many of these are video and some are written. These case studies cover a whole vast range of different sectors.
Sue Taylor:
The BBC Bitesize career section and the support shows how important skills such as communication, teamwork, resilience can be developed and practised.
Ronnie Burn:
It provides information on skills for work, for work experience and many different avenues in how young people have actually gained work.
Cherakee Bradley:
The careers content on the Bitesize website is perfect for young people. It's inspirational, it's very relatable.
Ronnie Burn:
It's great to see real people talking about what they've achieved and the journey that they've taken to achieve it.
Sue Taylor:
In a large inner city school like ours, we try and encourage students of all abilities to look at the whole range of options available to them. The videos show that students can go the apprenticeship route, they can go to college, they can continue to sixth form and then perhaps onto university.
Neil Willis:
One of the important things about the case studies is that they really highlight the wide range of pathways and progression routes into different job roles.
Cherakee Bradley:
We're all striving to achieve the eight Gatsby Benchmarks and understand how important this is. This helps us to achieve Benchmark Four, which is careers in the curriculum and also Benchmark Two, with a great deal of labour market information available to us.
Ronnie Burn:
Please take time to look at the website. There are over 200 case studies on there which we can use.
Primary resources
Making the Magic: From Story to Screen. video
Watch an exciting interactive lesson in partnership with the Wizarding World, introducing pupils to the myriad of roles and careers available on a film production.
What's my job? collection
A collection of short films for primary schools looking at the jobs and careers people have today and the lives of significant individuals in the past.
Spark - Fire up your future. collection
A collection of short films about ambition and work, encouraging young people to think about what they might do and who they might become.
Creative art, design and writing skills. collection
A series of short films for primary schools exploring creativity in art and design and creative writing.
BBC Scotland - Dream Jobs. collection
A collection of audio programmes for primary schools, profiling dream jobs including a guide dog trainer and a wind turbine engineer.
BBC Scotland - Production Guides. collection
A collection of short films for primary schools that are designed to help you with film production.
Secondary resources
Making the Magic: From Story to Screen. video
Watch an exciting interactive lesson in partnership with the Wizarding World, introducing pupils to the myriad of roles and careers available on a film production.
Apprentice for a Day. collection
A dynamic series of short films following a group of teenagers as they try being apprentices in a variety of different jobs - everything from a hairdresser to a dental nurse.
Making Media. collection
In this series of short films a group of young entrepreneurs explore the skills required in media production. Key skills covered include interviewing, researching and web design.
Labrinth's Speak Out. collection
In these short films for secondary schools, musician Labrinth explores different ways to use your voice and get your message across in everyday life.
What is Art? collection
In this series of short films for secondary schools various artists talk about their careers in art, crafts and design.
Six terrific careers in science. document
Science can lead to all sorts of amazing careers. This article explores six jobs your students could pursue with an education in science.
Where next?
BBC Bitesize Careers Resources. collection
Click here to explore the BBC Bitesize careers page. Designed for your students and covering the world of work with advice from people who've found the right path for them.
How can you use Bitesize Careers for National Careers Week? document
BBC Teach has been speaking to teachers and careers advisers about how they use BBC Bitesize Careers content to help them put on events and link careers to their existing curriculum learning.
