Career Planning and Job Hunting Support Programmes

Career Consultation

Our programmes usually cover three key elements:

• New Career Options – Specific Roles in Different Organisations
• Career Planning & Decision-Making
  
• Support during your Job Search

We always meet you first for a Career Options & Job Search Consultation. During the consultation your CareerBalance consultant will give you fresh ideas on the career options now open to you. We look at your strengths, your values and at what you want to achieve, including flexible working or part-time roles.

At this consultation we’ll also give you advice on how best to approach the job market – from improving your CV to guidance on whether recruitment consultants, the advertised job market or speculative approaches to potential employers will work for you.

We’ll let you know whether an additional qualification or further training will make you more marketable.

After your initial Consultation, we’ll send you a full summary and an outline for a career coaching and job search programme.

What can be covered in a Career Planning and Job Hunting Support Programme?

Sample Programme Content

• Career Review & Planning – comprehensive documents to complete

  •    Clarifying your transferable skills, career needs and aspirations

  •    Identifying new career options and deciding your next step

  •    Planning your longer-term career direction

  •    Changing career direction – re-marketing yourself

  •    Where to look and how to look for opportunities

  •    Producing professional CVs and cover letters

  •    Coaching for interviews and assessment days

• Where to look and how to look for the opportunities in the organisations which most appeal to you
• Recruitment consultants and head-hunters – how to get the best out of them
• Job application forms – completing them properly
• Planning and implementing an effective job hunting campaign
• Job loss/ redundancy support
• Returning to work after a career break
• Additional qualifications and training to help you progress
• Downshifting for better work-life balance
• Going freelance, setting up on your own, partnerships