Careers leader/adviser: interview questions and tasks
Adapt and use our interview questions and record sheet to recruit your next careers leader or adviser. Plus, use our interview tasks for a careers leader to help you select the best person for the role.
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Download our interview questions to recruit a careers leader or adviser
In this download, you'll find questions for both a careers leader and careers adviser, plus tips for what to look for in answers.
Note that the 2 roles are different:
- A careers leader has overall responsibility for your school's careers programme. They plan your school's careers provision, in line with the Gatsby benchmarks - find out more about the benchmarks and the role here
- A careers adviser provides guidance to pupils
Use this template during interviews to record candidates' responses and score evidence.
Choose from our interview tasks for a careers leader
Choose which tasks are most appropriate to use for your context - you don't need to set all of them Adapt the tasks according to the