Free Careers Posters for Schools and Colleges
Download and print posters that help students explore careers, routes and options
Free careers posters for secondary schools, sixth forms and colleges, designed by MyFutureChoice to help students explore careers, education routes and the choices ahead of them. Each pack is free to download and print, for display in classrooms, corridors and the careers office, or as smaller handouts. Art & Design posters: scan the posters, or read the guide online.
What’s in each careers poster pack
- Careers Poster Pack 1: Do You Know Your Levels?, Levelling Up, Find Your Own Treasure, and a Gatsby Benchmarks poster for staff. Best for all year groups, including sixth forms and colleges.
- Careers Poster Pack 2: Post 16 Paths, Popular Universities, The Careers Puzzle and Best Educational Path for You. Best for post-16 and post-18 decisions and careers guidance sessions.
- Career Area Resource Pack: career area sheets covering fields from Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary to Law, Computing and IT, Teaching and Construction, each with key skills and example careers. Best for careers lessons, research tasks and one-to-one guidance.
The poster packs are designed to print at A1 for display, and can also be printed smaller as handouts.
To get a pack, open its page and fill in the short form. We email the posters to you, ready to download and print in school or through a local printer.
Career Poster Pack 1
Four posters: Do You Know Your Levels?, Levelling Up, Find Your Own Treasure, and a Gatsby Benchmarks poster for staff. Designed for A1 display.
Career Poster Pack 2
Four posters for post-16 and post-18 choices: Post 16 Paths, Popular Universities, The Careers Puzzle and Best Educational Path for You.
Career area sheets, from Medicine and Law to Computing, Construction and Teaching, each showing key skills and example careers.
Every careers poster at a glance
Eight career posters across the two packs. Choose a poster to open its pack, where you can request the free download.
Gatsby Benchmarks poster
Lists all eight Gatsby Benchmarks of good careers guidance. For the staffroom and staff briefings.
Do You Know Your Levels?
Qualification levels from entry level to level 8, so students see how each step builds on the last. Years 9 to 11.
Levelling Up in Real Life
Qualification levels as a video-game chart, a first look at careers as a journey. Years 7 to 9.
Find Your Own Treasure
A careers treasure map of questions for students to think about. Years 7 to 9.
So… What’s Next? Post-16 Pathways
The work and study options after 16, for options evenings and Year 11 guidance.
Top 15 UK Universities
A map of the UK’s largest universities by number of undergraduates. Sixth form and college.
Your Career Puzzle
Questions that help students shape their career journey, for one-to-one and small-group guidance.
Choosing the Best Educational Path for You
School, college, university and work routes side by side, for post-16 and post-18 decisions.
Why careers posters help young people
Careers posters keep the world of work in view every day, not just in careers lessons. They show young people the range of career pathways open to them, how their curriculum subjects can lead to different careers, and the skills employers look for. For careers leaders, a well-placed poster is a simple way to start conversations about routes and options, and to inspire students who have not yet thought about their future.
How to use careers posters in school
- Display the education routes posters (Do You Know Your Levels?, Levelling Up, Post 16 Paths) where students make choices: tutor rooms, the library and the careers office.
- Use a poster as a lesson starter: ask students which route or career area surprises them, and why.
- Bring Post 16 Paths and Best Educational Path for You to Year 9 options and Year 11 post-16 events, so students and parents can see every route, including apprenticeships and T Levels.
- Give the career area sheets out as research tasks: students choose an area, check the key skills and research two careers from the list.
- Use The Careers Puzzle in one-to-one or small-group guidance to talk through interests, skills and goals.
- Share the Gatsby Benchmarks poster at a staff briefing, so every teacher understands their part in careers education.
Careers posters and the Gatsby Benchmarks
In England, the Gatsby Benchmarks set out what good careers guidance looks like. Posters do not meet a benchmark on their own, but they support the work: the Career Area Resource Pack gives students career and labour market information (Benchmark 2) and helps you meet different students’ interests (Benchmark 3), and subject lessons can use the posters to link learning to careers (Benchmark 4). Read our guide to the Gatsby Benchmarks.
Suggested posters by year group
- Years 7 to 9: Find Your Own Treasure and Levelling Up, to start students thinking about careers as a journey.
- Years 9 to 11: Do You Know Your Levels? and Post 16 Paths, ahead of options and post-16 choices.
- Sixth form and college: Popular Universities, Best Educational Path for You and the career area sheets, for university and apprenticeship decisions.
Some posters show routes, such as T Levels, that are offered in England only. Check the routes available in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland before using them with students there.
Careers posters: questions from teachers
More free careers resources
- Free Careers Calendar 2026/27: key careers dates, UCAS deadlines and national weeks for the year.
- Free MyAptitude practice tests: let students try verbal, numerical, spatial and abstract reasoning questions.
- MyFutureChoice careers programmes for schools: psychometric questionnaires, aptitude tests and course search that help students choose subjects, courses and careers.