Job Explorer Database (JED) - annual institution licence

Benefits

Helps schools meet their duty to provide students with independent careers guidance from Year 8 to Year 13.
Supports you in achieving the Gatsby Benchmarks.
Helps raise aspirations by showing how current studies link to future careers.
Encourages students to start thinking about the choices they will make when they leave school.
Presents comprehensive information on over 850 jobs in a way that is accessible to a wide variety of users of all ages, including some special needs (First Jed).
Makes careers education engaging and interesting!

Features:

• Information on 856 jobs (over 2500 career titles)
  
• Revised and updated throughout the year
• Accessible easy-to-read essential job information
• Further in-depth information about each job
• Pay graph for each job, showing how pay changes with experience
• Qualification requirements and training pathways information for each job, organised to make it easy to find what you need at 14+, 16+ and 18+
• Work experience information for each job
  Labour market information for each job
• Over 340 high quality video case studies - see people doing their jobs, not just talking about them
• Over 3500 pictures of real people doing real jobs
• Over 50 factsheets explaining various career decision-making topics
• Quizzes to suggest where to start looking
• Top-tens and on-this-day – fun new ways into jobs
• My Jed record. All-in-one page showing students' complete quiz answers, notes, and job suggestions. Save your quiz and notes to resume from later. Print out and keep as a record of your work
• Jed profiles. Create customised versions of Jed to use with different user groups
• All-in-one print page. Get all the information you want about a job in a single printout
• Glossary. Pop-up definitions for key words in the text
• Treasure Hunts. Engage your users with collaborative games
• Add your own web links. Include links to your Local Area Prospectus, Careers Service, or other links you choose
• Help videos. Short movies that show how to use Jed
• Text to speech. Feature reads the on-screen text out loud
• Use at home. Home access for students on your subscription
• One subscription covers your whole site (site licence only)
• Access from anywhere (personal licence only)
• First Jed. Included with Jed is First Jed
• Jed complies with W3C accessibility guidelines

New for 2023-24

All factsheets have been reviewed and updated where necessary.
Over 100 job records have been reviewed and updated.
New qualifications and training routes have been reviewed and included where relevant.