How coaches and mentors fit in
Navigating the career choice process is complicated and stressfulWe provide the tools and process that advisors can use to increase individual’s self-awareness, identify potential career routes and opportunities.
The advisor can also play a positive role monitoring, reviewing, supporting and motivating the actions that individuals are taking to achieve their career goals.
The CAREER-FIT Solution
We understand that getting the right people into the right roleswith the right skills at the right time is a common goal for all of
the stakeholders in the process.
To achieve this we have developed a skills supply chain solution
that aligns the goals and objectives so that all of the stakeholders gain.
Our 5-step methodology delivers these goals. Find out more
How to support career choice
Bring structured to the career choice process
By providing people with a logical process on how to make and implement their career choice gives them confidence to make the decision and will also increase their eventual satisfaction with the decision.
Protect against choice bandits
Career choice is damaged by the individual’s conscious and unconscious bias. They are also under the influence of many elements that either intentionally or unintentionally are affecting the choice process.Family and peer group pressures together with marketing and social media mis-information combine to make it very difficult for somebody on their own to rationally and objectively assess the relative merits of particular career options.
Using our methodology, the independent advisor can help the individual to make this an objective assessment which opens them up to opportunities that previously they would not have considered.
Provide choice tools
These tools help people to develop a far higher level of self-awareness and a good understanding of their interests, personal needs, attributes, skills and motivation.The profile generated by these tools can then be used to identify the most suitable career direction that they should explore.
Identify potential and areas for development
The coach can request a report that shows how well the individual fits particular elements of the role and the areas that will need further education and development.This can be used in selecting education routes as well as career routes.
Focus on the future
The world of work is changing at an increasing rate and there is a need for virtually everybody to be constantly developing skills and knowledge. This commitment to life-long learning and building skills that can be transferred from one career to another has some major positive elements in allowing individuals more opportunities to fulfil their potential and maximise their well-being.If advisors can help individuals to concentrate upon building up these transferable skills and attributes they will be far more employable throughout their many careers and will not be locked into careers that they have fallen out of love with.
Provide career review
It is predicted that people entering the workforce now will have over 5 career changes in their working life. Careers are journeys and there will be a number of times when careers need to be reviewed or changed.People’s circumstances, and their chosen career, change over time so what was once a sound career decision has developed into a route that is less suitable and motivational.
The advisor can use our methodology to identify the options and opportunities available to the individual at any stage of their career up to and including retirement planning.
Our Products and Solutions
Our products and solutions will help you prepare for the future. For more information please call us on 0345 345 930 or fill in our contact form.1 - Career-Fit profiler
- This is our default profiling tool that provides the standard profile for the individual and employer reports.
- Identifies standard career themes, with personality characteristics, motivators, and reasoning abilities.
- Identifies attributes and skills that are transferable across roles now and in the future.
- Provides self-coach, Parent/Guardian and professional advisor reports.
- Links with various databases O*NET, SOC & Published Apprenticeships, to provide feedback on the best fit.
- Identifies training and development requirements to achieve career goals.
- Provides employers with a selection report matching applicants to specific job profiles.
2 - Additional Psychometric Products
- As Chartered Occupational Psychologists we can use virtually any of the professional level products and link them to our solution.
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We partner with Psytech International (www.pstytech.co.uk) and can supply any of their products to inform our solution.
- OIP+
- 15FQ+
- Jung Type Indicator
- Learning Styles Inventory
- Values and motivations Inventory
- Work Attitude Inventory
- Various reasoning tests including Critical, Technical, verbal, numeric and abstract
- While strictly not a psychometric test we partner with The British Council (www.britishcouncil.org) to provide tests on English (and American English) competence.
- We are supporting a range of wellbeing research projects with a number of commercial and academic research groups. This work provides us access to some innovative products that are in test and pre-launch status.
3 - Job Search
- A key element of our solution is an integrated job search capability.
- This starts with an automated CV authoring assistant that can also be used to develop personal statements
- We use the profile coming from the profiling tool to identify potential areas of interest and then we aggregate the job boards to identify suitable opportunities.
- We can continue to do this on an ongoing basis informing you of opportunities as they are posted.
- We are currently trailing and will launch soon a service to employers that will allow them to directly contact people with particular type of profile even if they have not expressed an interest.
4 – Training
- We believe that most employability skills can be developed and we partner with Potential.com (www.potential.com) to provide a range of personalised skills development course. These can either be blended learning or on-line.
- CAREER-FIT solution does not require training to use., although advanced user training is available. For our other professional products these can only be used by Chartered Psychologists and qualified test users. We provide this training which is approved by the BPS (British Psychological Society) and EFPA (European Federation of Psychological Associations.
- We provide training in career coaching and the use of psychometric products in coaching.
- We are producing on-line short training course
- for individuals on how to interpret and act on the information in the profile.
- for Parents and Guardians on how to support the career choice.
- for Teachers, Lecturers and Tutors on assessing career options.
- Through our partner The British Council who provides English Language training for those wishing to apply to British, EU and North American Universities.
- We can organise Transferable skills training through a variety of on-line and classroom training courses.
5 - Consultancy and outsourced services
- We have a team of Psychologists, HR Consultants and IT professionals and together with our partners we develop bespoke solutions for a range of Commercial, Educational and Government clients globally.
- By definition each project is different but as we are not tied to any particular supplier, we provide objective advice and make use of best in class products in developing the highly personalised solution.
- We also provide an end to end management solution for those organisations who wish to outsource their assessment services.
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