Career Choice is too important to be left to chance
Our solution empowers you to make a better choice of future career in a more structured and less stressful way.When you have selected potentially suitable career routes we can inform you of relevant education and employment opportunities and link you to them.
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 we can benefit you
Prepare for the future
The problem is that nobody knows exactly what the world of work will be even in five years, so predicting the challenges and opportunities that you will face over your career is impossible.So how can you prepare for the future? Well we do know that you are going to need some core attributes and skills whatever happens and these are called transferable skills.
The good news is that these can be identified and developed and will be needed in virtually all roles in the future. Anybody possessing these attributes will be able to benefit from changes in the employment landscape and effectively future-proof their career.
Inspired choices
Unless you are lucky enough to have had a blinding vocation inspiration then you will have to choose what you want to do in the immediate and longer-term future.As such you are not really making an independent, logical choice but fitting in with, or even rebelling against, what you perceive to be parental and peer pressure.
What we provide you with is a method and structure that will allow you to objectively identify your real interests and needs and fit them with potential career routes that will provide the best rewards to you.
Overcome the choice bandits
Making an objective logical choice is remarkably difficult and unless you are a robot you will be influenced both consciously and sub-consciously, by branding, corporate messaging and well-meaning but harmful social stereotyping.We do this by guiding them through the process of making a good career choice and then linking them to suitable opportunities.
Because Career-Fit is a cloud based automated solution it provides a consistent high quality and efficient method of supporting them though their subject and career choice journey and provides important life skills that they are going to need multiple times during their working life.
Life-long learning plan
The Career-Fit life-long learning plan research* suggests that on average people entering the workplace today will have over five career changes during their working-life.As such people who commit to life-long learning and embrace the opportunities this creates will be rewarded with the opportunity to achieve their potential and have a stimulating and rewarding working life.
Career-Fit provides you with the tools to identify your potential, development needs and employment/training opportunities.
Well-being support
We recognise that choosing a career is one of the most complex and difficult decisions that you have had to make.We will prepare you to cope with the stress of making such stressful and complex decisions. Not only will this reduce the stress but it will help you to develop critical reasoning and coping skills that you will be able to apply to many other situations that you will face in the future.
The Career-Fit process provides you with the framework to take control and ownership of these important choice decisions and allows you to manage this process in a calm, logical and structured way.
Know your Future Self
The Career-Fit profile helps you to visualise yourself in your chosen future life/career and is a massive aide to developing a positive mindset.This positivity and the accompanying motivation allow you to take on challenges that while stretching also help you develop the future self you had imagined.
This future visualisation is a technique that was developed by sports psychologists for use by elite sports people to help them achieve extraordinary results. Its use in career planning is new but it does appear to be helping people increase their aspirations and over achieve their previous goals.
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.
There has never been a time of greater promise, or greater peril.
Prof Klaus SchwartzFounder of the World Economic Forum
Goals are only wishes unless you have a plan.
Melinda GatesCo founder of the Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation
National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.
Ban Ki MoonSecretary General of United Nations 2007 – 2016