Career Guidance

- involves an assessment of strengths and interests, and linking these to job types and information.
This service involves:

• structured personal interview
• testing (applying psychometric tests) session
• results feedback and discussion session
• formal written report (including an action planner).

Career Counselling

- involves the discovery of hopes and fears that may be guiding or hindering a career decision or action.  The emphasis is upon working through:

• uncertainty on direction,
• confusion or anxiety
• difficulty with decision-making
• reluctance to act. 

 

Outcomes of counselling include a readiness to act on exploring, decision-making and implementing job options.  These sessions are usually focused upon the decision-making of the individual, but the client can invite relevant family members to participate.

Career Management   concerns staff in organisations

For individual employees these sessions can help structure questions to ask personnel/human resources and management staff during performance appraisals/reviews or at other times.  The participation of family members or supervisors may be invited by the client where desired.

For organisations career management develops processes that guide staff through the organisation.  Refined career management processes provide:

• organisations with reliable information and informed decision-making on staff movements
• staff with a knowledge of staff development processes and feedback on personal strengths