Job Explorer Database (JED) - annual institution licence

Why buy Jed?

An annual subscription to Jed:

Helps schools meet their duty to provide students with independent careers guidance from Year 8 to Year 13.
Supports you in achieving the Gatsby Benchmarks.
Helps raise aspirations by showing how current studies link to future careers.
Encourages students to start thinking about the choices they will make when they leave school.
Presents comprehensive information on over 850 jobs in a way that is accessible to a wide variety of users of all ages, including some special needs (First Jed).
Makes careers education engaging and interesting!

Features

• Quizzes that match a student's likes and dislikes to a range of different careers, to help them explore jobs that align with their interests
• Information on 840 jobs (over 2500 career titles) which is revised and updated throughout the year
• Accessible easy-to-read essential job information
  
• Over 340 high quality video case studies - see people doing their jobs, not just talking about them
• Over 3500 pictures of real people doing real jobs
• Pay graph for each job, showing how pay changes with experience
• Qualification requirements and training pathways information for each job, organised to make it easy to find what you need at 14+, 16+ and 18+
• Labour market information for each job
• Over 50 factsheets explaining various career decision-making topics, including choices at 13/14, at 16, getting a job and going to university
• Top-tens and on-this-day – fun new ways into jobs
• My Jed record. All-in-one page showing students' complete quiz answers, notes, and job suggestions. Save your quiz and notes to resume from later. Print out and keep as a record of your work
• Jed profiles. Create customised versions of Jed to use with different user groups
• All-in-one print page. Get all the information you want about a job in a single printout
• Treasure Hunts. Engage your users with collaborative games
• Help videos. Short movies that show how to use Jed
• Text to speech. Feature reads the on-screen text out loud
• Use at home. Home access for students on your subscription
• One subscription covers your whole site (site licence only)
• Access from anywhere (personal licence only)
• First Jed. Included with Jed is First Jed
• Jed complies with W3C accessibility guidelines

New for 2024-25

All jobs profiles in the Computers and IT section have been udated.
A range of 'green' jobs have been updated and added.
All the factsheets have been checked and updated where necessary.
New training routes have been reviewed and included where relevant.