Job Explorer Database - Features

Standard features:

  • Information on over 830 jobs (1900 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 .
  • 6000 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.

    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 2008/9

  • Answers graph. See how positive or negative you have been in answering the questions. Useful when used for supervised learning.
  • More and bigger widescreen videos and pictures (where licensed).
  • New Diploma subjects added to the quiz.
  • Star ratings for all listed jobs, showing how they match to your quiz answers.

Find out more

Find out more about who uses JED.

Page date 19/08/08