Meet The Future You vs Startingpoint

Meet the future is a quiz that helps young people explore their skills and interests to identity different areas of engineering they might enjoy working in in the future. The quiz was developed by EngineeringUK in partnership with UCL Engineering, with the support of the Tomorrow’s Engineers Careers Working Group (CWG). The CWG includes representatives from the Institution of Civil Engineers, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the institute of Physics and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Aimed at young people aged 7 to 16, the quiz matches them to profiles such as Universe Explorer or Future Lifesaver and gives background information about potential future careers in engineering. The profiles are inspired by real engineers from UCL Engineering and aim to highlight that engineering is open to everyone.

A careers and guidance service that connects schools and students with employment opportunities. Schools can enroll students who can then access extensive lists of employment opportunities such as work experience, apprenticeships and paid employment. Users can upload media to their profile to evidence skills, experience and talents that employers may look for to fill job roles. The skills match function enables user to search for opportunities that specifically match their skills and experience, while also enabling employers to also search for prospective employees who match the criteria. Schools can access a range of educational careers resources such as articles and videos to evidence compliance with the Gatsby benchmark by engaging with employers. The system allows safe contact between students and employers for real life careers advice, overseen by the school moderator to ensure safeguarding.