Careers Advisor Training

A professional programme designed to equip career advisors and development officers with detailed knowledge and skills required for delivering a high quality service.

Course Title:

Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development

Course Fee: £2,400

Course Duration: 12 months

• Agree the purpose of client-centred career interactions
  and maintain communication with clients
• Assist clients to apply for learning, training or work
• Career guidance and development theories and models
• Continuously improve career development work in an
  organisation
• Enable clients to develop and evidence their
  employment-related skills
• Engage with other relevant people to help clients to
  meet their career development needs
• Explore and agree the career guidance and
  development needs of clients
• Lead and manage career development work in an
  organisation
• Manage a personal caseload/work responsibilities in the
  career development sector
• Negotiate on behalf of clients
• Plan and design career-related learning programmes
• Plan, deliver and evaluate career-related learning in
  groups

• Plan, deliver and evaluate presentations
• Preparing to work in the career development sector
• Promote career-related learning to clients
• Provide on-going support to clients
• Publicise and negotiate career development provision
  with external agencies or other departments within the
  same organisation
• Reflect on and improve professional practice
• Source, evaluate and use Labour Market Intelligence
  (LMI) with clients
• Understand how to support specific client groups to
  overcome barriers to learning, training and work
• Undertake research on behalf of the service
• Use career-related information with clients
• Use diagnostic and assessment tools with clients
• Use digital technology in the career development sector
• Use the expertise of employers and other organisations
  in the delivery of career learning/development activities
• Work with other agencies for the benefit of clients and
  own organisation

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We offer advance training at our head office as part of the programme to ensure all our learners have the practical experience and expertise, needed to deliver career support services in schools.

Learners will also be given the opportunity to shadow an experienced officer for up to 12 weeks.