Career Information, Advice and Guidance

Career information, advice and guidance is available to all individuals at all ages, through Skills Development Scotland (SDS).

My World of Work is Scotland’s digital careers site, where you can:

·       Discover different industries, sectors and job profiles, giving you ideas about next steps, whether you are still at school, at college or university, undertaking an apprenticeship or other training, unemployed, or looking for a job or career change

·       Explore different pathways to get to your career goals, including searching college and university courses, apprenticeships, and short courses to help you upskill or retrain.

·      Find a range of tools to help you identify your skills and strengths

·      Find support to search for a job, complete a CV or application and succeed at an interview

·      Develop your career management skills

·      Find links to other sources of support, such as for mental health and wellbeing, funding, additional support for learning or work and help with reading, writing or numbers

You can also book an appointment to chat with a careers adviser, whether by phone or in person. Careers advisers are based across Scotland, both in SDS careers centres and in community venues. Contact details and locations can be found here: Careers centres - Skills Development Scotland.

As part of the Scottish Government’s Young Person’s Guarantee, in Sandy Begbie’s Youth Guarantee - No-one Left Behind: Initial Report, SDS are leading on a collaborative, system-wide review to bring together the views and experiences of young people, parents, employers, teachers as well as experts from across the system.

The aim of the Career Review is to provide recommendations for the future of Scotland’s all age service to support people’s career development and maximise the benefit from services in the post-pandemic global economy. The review will explore the journey from early years to first transitions to employment and will then make recommendations that will take forward the implementation of Scotland's Careers Strategy: Moving Forward.

Further information relating to the Career Review and Career Information, Advice and Guidance can be found on SDS’s website at:

Career Review | Skills Development Scotland