Focus stage - career consultant support

The Four Stage Career Search & Development Programme will enable you to identify a clear career objective and then equip you with the necessary marketing materials, interviewing techniques and campaign tools to subsequently achieve your career objective.

You will be supported throughout by a professional career consultant who will have sufficient time and flexibility to tailor each stage to your individual needs, situation and time-scales.

The first stage of the programme will help you clarify what you need from your career and what you have to offer a potential employer, in short, what makes you marketable.

You will complete a series of written exercises designed to draw out what is important to you as a person and highlight specifically what you have to offer a potential employer. Your consultant will review your responses and discuss them with you.

You will then complete a transferable skills analysis to identify those skills that you particularly enjoy using and use well. In addition, you will develop the tangible evidence to prove those skills.

An optional Myers-Briggs assessment conducted by a qualified and registered Myers-Briggs practitioner is also included. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will help you understand your personality preferences more clearly and how those relate to specific career options.

Building on the assessment work you will then explore different career options. Your consultant will help you to evaluate the alternatives so you can identify the most appealing and viable option which will become your career search objective.

You will develop a long list of options where the criterion is purely "appeal". Your consultant will provide you with details of tools to help you build your long list. Together with your consultant you will review your long list.

Your consultant will provide you with challenging feedback and input so that you are able to confidently reduce the list to a short list of options that are both "appealing" and "viable". Your consultant will then help you to evaluate your short list so you can identify the career option that best meets your needs and aspirations and which you believe is achievable.

The option you select will become your career search objective. In short, as you will have determined where you want to take your career and why you want to go there you will move to the Marketing stage with greater confidence and certainty.

Stage One typically requires four to five face-to-face sessions plus telephone and email support as necessary. However, if more sessions are needed they will be provided at no additional cost. Sessions are normally of 1½ hours duration.

Focus is one of four stages in our programme
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