Job Explorer Database - Features
Standard features:
- Information on over 870 jobs (2000 career titles)
- Fully revised and updated annually
- Accessible easy-to-read essential job information.
- Further in-depth information about each job.
- Pay and opportunities information for each job.
- Qualification requirements and training pathways information for each job.
- Work experience information for each job.
- Adult entry information for each job .
- 5000 pictures of real people doing real jobs.
- Quizzes to suggest where to start looking.
- Top-tens and on-this-day – fun new ways into jobs.
- My Jed record. 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.
- Links to Higher Ideas (where installed and licensed) for suggestions on related Higher Education courses.
- All-in-one print page. Get all the information you want about a job in a single printout.
- Glossary. Pop-up definitions for key words in the text.
- Help videos. Short movies that show how to use Jed.
- Add your own pictures and text.
- One subscription covers your whole site.
- Install it, or use your subscription from the internet. All features are available on the Internet except for videos and localising.
- First Jed. Included with JED is First Jed.
- Complies with W3C accessibility guidelines.
*Premium features (additional licence required):
- Video pack. Over 250 video case studies.
- Text to speech. Animated character to speak the on-screen text.
- Use at home. Home access for students on your subscription.
New for 2009/10
- Treasure Hunt. Engage your users with collaborative games.
- Add your own web links. Include links to your Local Area Prospectus, Careers Service, or other links you choose.
- Over 50 new jobs added and all existing jobs revised.
- New videos and picture sets.
Find out more
Find out more about who uses JED.
Page date 26/08/09