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Toolkits

A few minutes now, a clearer decision later

Short tools to help you understand yourself and your options before you commit to anything. Nothing you write is kept anywhere unless you choose to save it, and what you do save goes to a portal TLC staff can see.

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Meet the toolkit

The Groundwork

There are no right answers here, and nothing to pass or fail. Each tool is a private few minutes to think honestly about what you want, what you are good at, and whether a path really fits, before anyone else is involved.

Think of it as laying the groundwork before any decision. Work through as many or as few as you like, in any order, and stop whenever you want. When you are ready to talk to TLC, you will arrive with a clear head and better questions, and we will pick it up from there.

7 tools7 learning collections0 sign-ups

No sign-up neededNothing you write is kept unless you choose to save it.

Honest, not salesyBuilt to help you decide, even if the answer is no.

Quick to doMost take five minutes, and you can stop any time.

Personal diagnostics

Is this right for you?

Interactive self-checks. Honest questions, instant results, and nothing you write in your own words is sent to TLC unless you save it.

5 min Readiness checkIs an apprenticeship right for you?An honest self-check on time, motivation and support, with a personal report at the end. Open → 15 min Before you commitTry the ApprenticeshipBuild a real working week, experience the difficult moments and discover what would need to be in place for an apprenticeship to work for you. Enter the Decision Lab → Compare routes Other routesApprenticeship, or another route?An honest comparison of an apprenticeship against college, university, bootcamps and staying as you are, so you can weigh what fits you best. Compare the routes → 10 min Your learning storyHow you learn, mapped properlyA private walk through how your mind works, ending in a report your trainer and employer can actually use. Build my story →

Your careers toolkit

Know your options

Explore the careers themselves: the occupations, the ladders they climb and what each sector is really like.

Occupational mapsSee every route into and up a careerExplore how roles connect, from entry level to the top of the ladder. Open → Career pathwaysEvery job is the bottom of a ladderSee what a first role can become, and the steps in between. Open → 6 min Career fit explorerFind work that fits how you are wiredA quick, judgement-free way to see which kinds of work might suit you, and why. Open →

The learning hub

Keep building, well beyond day one

Career Ready is our free guide to choosing, starting and growing a career. Seven collections of short lessons, each one ending in something you build and keep.

Go to the learning hub → Seven collections, 70 short lessons and six things you write for yourself. Or start with a single collection below.

6 lessons Collection oneDiscover yourselfMeet the person doing the choosing. Six lessons on strengths, values, motivation and what gets in the way, ending in a one-page profile you can keep. Open the lessons → 7 lessons Collection twoExplore what is possibleJobs, occupations, routes and levels, and the assumptions that quietly narrow a list. You leave with three genuine possibilities to look into. Open the lessons → 10 lessons Collection threeUnderstand the job marketDemand, pay, skills and where work is heading, in plain English, with the sources named and the date they were checked. Open the lessons → 10 lessons Collection fourExplore an occupation properlySix ways to test a role against the reality of a normal Tuesday, plus sector guides for the fields we train in. Open the lessons → 7 lessons Collection fiveMake an informed choiceFit, fair comparison, prior learning and the questions worth asking before you say yes, with a record that shows the choice was yours. Open the lessons → 12 lessons Collection sixGet ready for your next stepThe practical craft of getting hired. Finding openings, applying, evidencing what you can do, interviewing and reading an offer properly. Open the lessons → 18 lessons Collection sevenSucceed and progress at workOnce you are in, careers grow through habits. Collaboration, reputation, evidence of impact and an honest check-in with yourself now and then. Open the lessons →

When you are ready

Chosen with your eyes open

Used a toolkit or two and it feels right? Take the next step, and a real person at TLC will pick it up with you.

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