Labour Market Information can help inform you about current work and career opportunities in your local area.
Click here to visit the Hertfordshire Opportunities Portal to find Labour Market Information for Hertfordshire. You can access essential information on qualifications and earnings, top employment sectors and details of local employers.
We work closely with HOP to keep up to date with all the latest training and employment opportunities in Hertfordshire. The HOP website offers a very wide range of information about career path options, work experience, skills development and professional qualification programmes. There is a live directory of courses, apprenticeships and job vacancies across a wide range of sectors in the area. Click here to access.
HOP also runs a series of regular live webinars with local employers. Sessions run weekly during term time and cover a range of careers.  We will advertise the sessions on this page and you can browse the full series of previous webinars here.
Click here for information and to register.
Springpod is an excellent online resource to help students find virtual work experience programmes.
Completing some relevant work experience placements, while still at school, can offer a host of benefits that help students discover and get started in their future career faster.
Students can use SpringPod to browse a whole catalogue of virtual work experience placements, delivered by a range of well-known companies and professional bodies.
Click here to link to SpringPod and set up your free account.
Apprenticeships combine practical training in a job with study.
As an apprentice you’ll:
Apprenticeships take 1 to 5 years to complete depending on their level.
To start an apprenticeship, you’ll need to be 16 or over.
Click here to visit the gov.uk apprenticeship site and search on apprenticeship category or level as well as location.
Verulam School is part of the
Ambition Education Trust
