Guidance packages

All of our career guidance packages provide your son or daughter with a range of services that can be mixed and matched, a tried and tested model used by many schools and colleges:

• Career guidance interviews
• Pathfinder + HE software
• Ongoing, personal support link to text below
• Psychometric assessment
• Individual test feedback

Career guidance interviews

Your son or daughter will benefit from a comprehensive guidance interview with a professionally qualified career consultant, experienced in working with academically able students both in independent and grammar schools/colleges who largely (but not always) aspire to higher education in the UK or internationally.

Our consultant will also be well versed in financial issues related to higher education, and be supported by an extensive network of relevant career and higher education information resources.

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Pathfinder + HE software

Access to the Pathfinder + HE career guidance and information computer program available in school/ college. This interactive program generates career and higher education course suggestions based on an individual’s expressed interest patterns.

Pathfinder + HE provides:

• a database of 100 subject areas and over 580 course titles across the UK
• a facility to browse the HE database without completing the interest guide
• email and web links to UCAS, universities and colleges
• general information to support HE course choice and applications.

The database is also expanding to include other countries such as Ireland , South Africa and the USA.

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Ongoing, personal support

Uniquely, your son or daughter will also benefit from ongoing, face to face guidance and support after they have left school or college (up to the age 25) including:

• quick and responsive email support
• careerline telephone helpine service (new from 2005)
• comprehensive and informative website
• regular editions of our newsletter containing up to date information on the latest developments in higher education and labour market trends
• local access to comprehensive information resources in centres.

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Full psychometric assessment

In addition, an enhanced service is also available providing psychometric assessment.

Using the internationally recognised Morrisby Profile (link to morrisby website), this psychometric assessment tool measures an individual’s relative underlying abilities, and certain career and study related aspects of personality.

Expressed interests are also systematically taken into account.

From this tested and objective information, an individual profile is produced in the form of a report, identifying career suggestions and indicating A, AS and IB subjects which would be relevant for these areas.

An individual’s preferred planning style and their usual method of problem solving is also demonstrated in the profile - significant for future career and course selection.

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Individual test feedback and career guidance interview

In addition, an enhanced service is also available providing individual test feedback and career guidance interview

It is from this objective basis, implications for higher education and career choice can be realistically discussed and developed between student and career consultant, in an impartial and informed way during a second post-assessment guidance interview in school/ college.

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