How do our Career Programmes work?

Our career programmes explore the areas that influence all aspects of your career happiness and job satisfaction. This usually has a knock on affect to the rest of our lives because work is such a huge part of your life, it undoubtedly affects your personal life too.

We take an in depth look at your abilities, skills, interests, personal style, values and goals - all of which shape how your time would be best spent in the work place. Personal circumstances, other people in our lives and life stages are also felt to have an influential affect on your choice of career.

We look at all of these areas through proven psychometric career tests, self discovery questionnaires and coaching and counselling.

You are born with a range of abilities that are unique to you. These are essentially hardwired from the age of fourteen and can be measured. You will be happiest and perform at your best when your natural abilities are employed to the fullest. However most people are not aware of there natural abilities and very often are unhappy in jobs that they are not suited to.

We explore these abilities using an online ability battery called the Highlands Ability Battery. After taking the Highlands Ability Battery, you will get a 30 page report plus a two hour feedback session with one of our career consultants. You will learn where your innate abilities lie and the type of jobs that would be best suited to you. You will also find out your personal style, your preferred working environment and your most effective learning style.

It is an excellent learning tool for really getting the core of your strengths and can be taken on its own or as part of one our career programmes. To find out more about the Highlands Ability Battery and costs associated with taking it click on the link or Contact Us.

Over the years, you will have developed unique interests which you may not always be aware of. When these are identified and recognized, you can be helped to combine these with your abilities to achieve a fuller and more integrated use of both. In having a job that incorporates both you will essentially earning a living from what others may consider a hobby.Of course your interests change all through out your life - there are so many things you have yet to be introduced to! We find out about your current interests using a combination of questionnaires and discussion.

Another area that is important to career happiness and job satisfaction is your personality and personal style. Everyone develops unique speech patterns, body language, social devices and personality traits that combine to make up who you are.

Personality and a person's personal style are important to identify. It makes it far easier to understand things about yourself such as how you relate to others and others to you, how you learn best, how you prefer to make decisions, how you are energised, how you acquire information and the sort of lifestyle and environment you prefer to work in.

To find out more about these areas, we use a combination of the Highlands Ability Battery, Myers Briggs Personality Indicator, informal questionnaires and discussion.

Your background and family have a monumental affect on shaping your life and work attitude. We encourage you to examine and to understand how your family's history and intra-family relationships have had an influence on your career choices to date, and on the relationship you have with work.

Your family's influence on your career choices can be both positive and negative, and in gaining a better understanding of these influences you can move towards the working life YOU want whilst also taking advantage of the invaluable lessons your family has taught you and continues to teach you.

Every person has goals which control and drive their actions and the activities they take part in - both every day and over the foreseeable future.

We use the information we have learned about you and your job profile throughout your counselling sessions to identify goals and action plans, which are vital for future career success. Goals can sometimes seem unobtainable in the short term and as such we formulate a realistic set of targets for you to aim for on your road to success.