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National Careers Week 2025: Resources & Activities
The theme for this year is ‘You Can!’
National Careers Week is a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education taking place across the UK from the 3rd to the 8th of March. “The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people develop awareness and excitement about their future pathways.”
Careers Week encourages education providers to bring together students, local employers and advisers through careers events and activities.
Celebrate with your students using these amazing resources!
Official National Careers Week Resources
NCW Games, Activities & Printables
We’ve highlighted a few of our favourite activities below – there are too many to share!
Take a look at the full collection here.
NCW 2025 Job Journey Activity
Students in Key Stage 2-4 can take up the challenge and show off their creativity and design skills.
NCW Virtual Careers Fair
National Careers Week: Student Certificate
NCW Suitcase of Skills 2025 – Activity Pack
The Skills Suitcase is a great activity to help students recognise key skills they may not realise they have and how important they are.
NCW: The Careers Download (E-zine)
Skills Builder Posters
If you use the Skills Builder Universal Framework and your learners are building on the eight essential skills, these free display posters are perfect for National Careers Week!
National Careers Week 2025: Skills Builder Lessons & Assemblies
If you don’t use the Skills Builder Framework you can find out more about it and get started with an assembly and short activities.
LCR Careers Hub: My Futures Resources
These workbooks encourage learners to consider their options, employability and life skills and each title contains information, activities and links. The final booklet includes space to record achievements and goals.
Games: Amazing Apprenticeships – Apprenticeship Arcade
This fantastic suite of games provides interactive and fun ways for students to explore and learn about apprenticeships, whilst working in groups or individually.
New games have just been added for 2025!
The Careers & Enterprise Company: My Learning, My Future – Subject-Specific Resources
Resources that highlight how school subjects lead to future careers, opportunities and pathways.
The Careers & Enterprise Company: Work It Videos
Careers talks with young people for young people.
Schools & Colleges: Funded Apprenticeship Support (ASK)
ASK offers a range of activities for KS4 and KS5 students, as well as online learning and development programmes for teachers/careers advisers and parent and carer support.
Share your National Careers Week activities and events on social media using #NCW2025
All About Futures partner with the Combined Authority’s Liverpool City Region Careers Hub to support the work of the Careers and Enterprise Company.
“Connecting schools and colleges with employers and careers program providers, to create meaningful encounters for pupils with the world of work.”
LCR Employer Network
GameChangers
Experience of the Workplace
LCR Careers Hub
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority