Career Consultancy

At Vitae Consulting we provide two career consultancy packages:

· Career Counselling

· Career Reviews

Career Counselling

In-depth career counselling is appropriate if you are uncertain about your career direction, or want to benefit from a thorough self-appraisal. Career counselling takes 2 sessions with your career consultant, each session being 2 hours in duration.

These are some of the questions often asked of us by clients when contacting us with regard to career counselling:

• I want a fulfilling career. Can you help me clarify my strengths and weaknesses, so that I will make my choice wisely?
• I have never had the chance to talk over my career aims objectively. Can you help me do this?
• I'm in a 'good' job, but I 'm not happy. How realistic is it of me to consider other career options?
• I'm interested in so many things. Can you help me focus?
• My work and home life are out of balance. Can you enable me to regain some perspective, and consequently a more satisfying balance?
• My skills and interests are currently under utilised in my job. Can you help me to think through ways of better using them in or out of work?

Effective career counselling takes time. We realise that talking over your concerns and making a decision about your future can be difficult. We are therefore sensitive to the way you feel at this important time.

At Vitae Consulting you will have a number of one-to-one meetings with a Career consultant. We make use of aptitude tests and questionnaires, which highlight skills, occupational interests and personality. These can be useful to help you assess the potential suitability of different occupations, training courses, or work environments.

Meetings are usually arranged at intervals of about one week to provide you with sufficient time to reflect on discussions and test results. These periods also give you the opportunity to complete self-appraisal exercise and read relevant information.

Career Reviews

A career review enables you to talk over how your career is going with someone who is an unbiased professional, not you partner, manager or friend.

A Career Review is appropriate if you want to:

• Discuss ways of developing your career
• Talk over a recent appraisal, performance review or assessment centre
• Discuss current or possible changes in your organisation or field of employment
• Examine your longer term career aims
• Review your career to date
• Explore ways of making yourself more marketable

A career review gives you the opportunity to discuss your thoughts and feelings about your career. Are you 'on track' or do you see a need to make some changes? Typically you will meet with the Career consultant for one session.