About Us

Success at School is a national careers website for students aged 13-19. Our aim is to help young people make informed decisions about their future. Since our launch we've reached around 70% of schools and colleges across the country.

Schools/colleges can personalise and use our content-rich careers platform to help pupils explore their options and choose their next steps, and employers use us to connect with the talent of the future. We are recommended by the National Careers Service and Careers and Enterprise Company.

We are a member of the CDI and are committed to upholding their code of ethics when delivering careers advice and guidance. This ensures we deliver impartial, objective and independent advice, and that our decisions centre around what's best for young people, schools/colleges and our readers.

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Our story

During the lunchtimes of my investment banking job, I was asked to work with under-privileged schools, helping poor-performing kids to improve their maths skills. What actually shocked me was how good they were. The problem was these young students were being taught in a way they couldn’t relate to.

Over the course of my 10-year career, I was asked to interview many graduates and interns who, while they were excellent on paper, had no real passion for the finance sector. What kind of careers advice had they been getting at school?

When I quit my banking job in 2011, these two experiences made me question: how do we educate young people about their future careers, the skills they need and the universities, employers and other organisations who might be involved?

The following year, I founded Success at School with the aim of addressing these issues. Our free resource enables schools and students to access independent, impartial careers advice so young people can make informed choices about their future. Ultimately, our goals is to connect students and their influencers with universities and employers, so they can learn about the industries and career paths open to them, as well as the different ways of getting there.

And we’ve been pretty successful: since our launch, 70% of secondary schools/colleges have interacted with us and in the last 12 months we’ve reached more than 1.18m people.

And with our tech moving on so quickly, we’ll be able to do more diversity targeting from September 2017. We’ve created white label versions for schools and local authorities, with bespoke skills and work experience logs.

—Mitesh Bhimjiyani, Success at School founder

Schools and colleges

Want to deliver the best careers advice to your students but don’t have the time or resources? We can help you – find out how now.  

Employers

We can link you up with schools and colleges, helping you to connect with young people and recruit the right talent. Get in touch today.

Universities

We can help you to reach young people as they make decisions about higher education and the options available to them – contact us to find out more.

Images

As you know, we take great pride in the content here at Success at School. As well as making it super-useful, we like it look as shiny as possible. We use imagery from the designers at Freepik and Flaticon to give our content it's superb look and feel. We'd like to thank these resources for helping us do a great job! Thanks to Freepik to the wonderful Santa, reindeer, Christmas village and sleigh images we used to make our Xmas banner this year.

Downloadable logos

To download our logo for use on the web:

  1. Right click on the logo to the left.
  2. Select "Save image as..."
  3. Save the image to your computer.

To download our logo for use in print:

  1. Download this zip file.
  2. Double click on the file to open it.
  3. Open the image file inside.
  4. Save the image to your computer.

 

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