How parents fit in
Of all the factors influencing a young person’s career choice, parental influence has by far the greatest effect.This is a combination of conscious and unconscious influences that combine to shape the way an individual views particular career routes and the level of effort they place on this process.
We have developed a process that helps those with parental responsibilities to support the young person in making good decisions on their career direction.
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
Increase objectivity
The person responsible for providing the parental guidance has the benefit of having seen and been involved in the individual’s development. Unfortunately, this close involvement makes it difficult to be objective, however the CAREER-FIT methodology helps the young person to develop their self-awareness and get a good understanding of their interests, personal needs, attributes, skills and motivation.The parents can share this objective analysis and have a structured discussion based on the outcomes of the analysis.
Provide structure to the choice process
Career choice is not a one-off event but it is a gradual process that will be repeated many times during their life long career journey. Unfortunately. the first career choice is the most difficult as the young person has limited life and work experience on which to make these decisions.They are also changing rapidly as people and will be faced with many conflicting influences, many of which, while well-meaning, can complicate the decision and lead to stress and insecurity.
The supportive parent can use our methodology to provide the young person with a structured approach to understand and manage the choice process which allows them to evaluate opportunities in a controlled and less stressful manner.
The parent as a career coach
The use of the CAREER-FIT structured approach enables the parent to play the role of a personal career coach for the young person. We will also be producing training videos to support parents to further develop their skills in this area.Asking the questions to guide the young person through the research and choice process and then providing them with non-judgemental support and motivation has a significant effect on the quality and level of satisfaction of the eventual choice.
Above all it increases their self-awareness, resilience and well-being.
Support researching and qualifying the opportunities
There is a wealth of information available on future learning and career opportunities. The problem is that the sheer quantity of information available is overwhelming and can lead to information overload which in turn leads to confusion and difficulties in making choices.Our structured approach helps by focusing on particular areas that have been identified as fitting the personal and career needs of the young person. Parents can play a major role in providing an objective view and guidance on how to assess how well the opportunities fit the young person’s particular personal and career needs.
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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