Job Explorer Database - Features
Standard features:
- Information on over 800 jobs (2200 career titles)
- Fully revised and updated annually
- Accessible easy-to-read essential job information
- Further in-depth information about each job
- Pay graph for each job, showing how pay changes with experience
- Qualification requirements and training pathways information for each job
- Work experience information for each job
- Adult entry information for each job
- Over 200 high quality video case studies - see people doing their jobs, not just talking about them
- Over 3000 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
- Treasure Hunts. 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.
- 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 version except for localising.
- First Jed. Included with JED is First Jed.
- Complies with W3C accessibility guidelines
*Premium features (additional licence required):
- Text to speech. Feature read the on-screen text out loud
- Use at home. Home access for students on your subscription
New for 2011/12
- Every job in Jed has been reviewed and updated
- 60 new job records
- 50 new videos and picture sets
- All videos are now widescreen, bigger, and even better quality
Find out more
Find out more about who uses JED.
Page date 6/01/12