Personal & Professional Development

   Career & Outplacement Counselling

Career & Outplacement Counselling

About you…?

• Are you unfulfilled or frustrated in your current role?
• Do you need advice, clarity and direction in order to expand your current horizons?
• Are you aware of the options available to you?
• Are you returning to work or have you recently been made redundant?
• Would you welcome objective analysis and fresh ideas from outside your usual “frame of reference”?
• Are you seeking promotion within your current organisation?
• Have you recently been promoted to a more senior position?
• Would you like to start your own business but don’t know if you possess the personal qualities to succeed?

We provide a range of professional solutions depending on YOUR specific needs.  Our services include:

• Initial 1-1 discussion focusing on your current circumstances, what you would like to develop and where you would like to be professionally

• Careers inventory questionnaires which will identify how your orientation towards learning, risk taking and leadership style might affect your career options.  The inventory will provide a range of different work environments that will best suit your interests and personality. APA will unpick your preferences from a wide range of specific activities e.g. managing or supervising others, instructing young people, analysing data for decision making, working in structured settings, persuading or influencing people, selling to potential customers, working outdoors etc. **

• Detailed written report

• Careers feedback discussion and planning

• Individualised professional development planning signposting you to specialised recruitment agencies, professional associations, courses and appropriate qualifications

• Leadership assessment, coaching and development

**Careers inventories can be complemented by personality assessments using a range of sophisticated psychometric instruments which can give greater insight into your motivations and behavioural patterns. Your results and feedback will identify strengths and also highlight areas you may want to develop to support your career progression.

We will support you to:

• Choose a career

• Make a career change

• Find a work environment that suits you

• Choose further appropriate education or training

• Increase your job satisfaction

• Develop work effectiveness and leadership skills

• Find a balance between work and leisure activities

“A man knows he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live”

                             Thomas Merton - Thoughts in Solitude

Your next step... call for an informal chat, with no obligation, so we can find out about your current circumstances.  We will suggest a range of tailored and cost-effective solutions that will support you to EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS and FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL.

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