Employability skills can be developed in education
How many of your students make informed education and career choices.Are your employability lessons providing your students with the tools framework and confidence to make high quality decisions about their career direction.
A degree alone isn't enough
Employers are looking for dynamic skills
Complex problem solving
Coordinating with others
People management
Critical thinking
Negotiation
Quality control
Service orientation
Judgment & decision-making
Active listening
Creativity
Complex problem solving
Critical thinking
Creativity
People management
Coordinating with others
Emotional intelligence
Judgment & decision-making
Service orientation
Negotiation
Cognitive flexibility
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
Educating the employees of the future
Develop lifelong learning skills
The one thing that we do know is that people entering and already in the workplace will need to re-skill many times during their career. Due to continual change they will need to acquire knowledge and skills on an ongoing basis.Employability skills are life skills so it is crucial to get people to learn from all of their life, education and work experiences. We facilitate this by providing individuals and ideally their advisors with the tools to identify their development needs and recognise their progress.
Aspiration and motivation
Too many students and employees have low education and career aspirations. They are often referred to as the “lost” and take their lack of academic achievement as an indication of what they can expect to achieve in the workplace.Academic success is a very poor predictor of performance in the workplace so it is important not to allow those less academically gifted to set their goals too low.
By using our tools to identify people’s strengths and matching them to opportunities where they can develop and exploit their particular skills we can help them to recalibrate their goals.
How to choose
There have been some major insights, coming from both Behavioural Psychology and Neural Sciences, about how we make choices.Educators can be highly influential “choice architects” by providing individuals with the choice structure and support to make confident and satisfying. This is very important for both their wellbeing and their subsequent occupational success.
Develop employability skills
While many of the skills that employers require are developed through traditional education, many are developed outside the classroom either though work or life experience.By developing a skills-inventory we can identify where people are today and where they need to be to achieve their occupational goal. We can then develop a personalised development plan to map out the journey with all learning methodologies tailored to individual needs.
Social mobility, diversity and inclusivity
If we are going to get the right people into the right roles then it is essential that we make use of technology to democratise the process and access the deepest and widest pool of talent available.There is ample evidence that career choice and selection is affected by bias, both conscious and unconscious. However, what is less recognised is that the most destructive bias is the unconscious bias that all employees/applicants have.
By getting students and employees to have a higher level of self-awareness, including an understanding of the effects that social stereotyping will have had on their choices, we can open up a whole new world of employment opportunities.
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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