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Careers

Virtually all boys leave Merchant Taylors’ for further study at university, but the School’s policy is to prepare them for adult life, which means that they must be helped to choose their eventual careers wisely, after much reflection.

The Head of Careers leads a team of teachers and advisers, operating from a Careers Centre where there is a wealth of information, much of it available on computer.

Boys begin their Careers education early, with a one-day course in (for most) their first year. At the end of their second year they complete a careers guidance test, which they discuss with visiting professionals. In their third year, as they approach the time to choose A level courses, they attend a Careers Conference organised jointly with St Helen’s School. Tutors keep in very close touch with their thinking throughout and offer additional advice.

Work Experience
In the sixth form boys usually tackle several assignments of work experience, some of which can be done abroad in Europe. In particular our Company Links offer some excellent opportunities for very worthwhile placements.

In the sixth form there are other joint courses run with St Helen’s School offering interview experience, decision-making and leadership skills. The Young Enterprise scheme, in which groups of boys form themselves into rival businesses devising and marketing their own products, is very popular, and boys have won some major competitions. There is also a School Bank into which deposits can be made, run by senior boys as a branch of Barclays.

Company Links Scheme
The school has pioneered a very exciting scheme that links it to major Companies in varying sectors of British business and industry.

The Companies offer excellent work experience placements that can be matched with boys’ developing career ambitions, site visits, careers counselling, sponsorship of Conferences, leadership training and other benefits.

Higher Education
As his general direction becomes clearer in the sixth form, each boy is assigned to a senior Head of Department, who then acts as his University Adviser. His Adviser will support him throughout the entire process of entry to higher education, discussing with him his choice of course and university, helping him with his application, arranging interview practice if needed, counselling him on acceptances and rejections, and he will also be in School in the holiday when A level results are published, to congratulate and advise!

The School also organises with St Helen’s a substantial Higher Education Conference, which offers every pupil a choice of a great variety of seminars given by staff from the universities.

Just about every boy goes to university - usually a very reputable one. The School does not concentrate on any particular areas, because all areas are in demand: boys’ choices are healthily wide-ranging. The professions are, understandably, very popular - about a third of the sixth form will choose medicine, law or engineering, for example, - but economics and financial management are very strong, and there are. many who aim for subjects such as computer science, or physics, or French and Spanish, or History. In recent years about one in five leavers has gone on to Oxford or Cambridge .