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Apprenticeship, or another route?

Same destination, different roads

Pick where you are trying to get to and tell us three things about your situation. You get eight routes compared honestly against your answers, including the ones that earn TLC nothing. Nothing reaches TLC unless you save it at the end.

Two minutes Eight routes, ranked for you Nothing sent unless you save it

Your employer may have recommended this apprenticeship, but you should still be confident that it matches your job, existing experience and future ambitions.

That sentence is the whole reason this tool exists. Answer for yourself, and the board below will be yours.

First, the destination

Which occupation are you weighing up? This is the outcome. The routes below are just different roads to it.

Now, your situation

Three quick picks. The board rewrites itself around them.

What do you want most?

Your experience in this work

What you need while you get there

The rankings come from your answers, never from what suits us. Tap any route for the full picture.

Two promises about this board. First, the fit tags follow your answers, so change your answers and watch them move. Second, if the strongest fit is a route away from us, we will say so here and mean it. For a slower read of the same choices, see The other routes. To talk it through with someone who has no stake at all, the National Careers Service is free on 0800 100 900. And when you have weighed it, the Decision Lab turns your thinking into a printed sheet you can keep.