CAREERS ADVICE AND GUIDANCE SUPPORT
“Student Navigator has real expertise in guiding her students through the
variety of career options available to them.”
Careers advice and guidance sessions can help students and young people to talk through their plans, ideas or uncertainties in a supportive, impartial and confidential space. Sessions last around 50 minutes and can be online or in person at our base in Leeds. At the end of the careers advice and guidance session, clients are emailed a summary of the discussion and a copy of their Careers Action Plan, detailing the next steps in their journey that the client has identified through the meeting.
Reasons that you may benefit from a one-to-one careers advice and guidance session:
- If you’re at university and thinking of leaving or wanting to change your course and would like to discuss your options and be supported in your decision-making process.
- If you’re a recent graduate looking for support with graduate job applications, or wondering about how to make the next steps in your career after finishing university and moving back home.
- If you’re looking for help with job application supporting statements, cv advice and interview preparation.
- If you’re in year 10 or year 11 and want to discuss your career options and what courses you might want to do after your GCSEs.
- If you are at college or sixth form and want to explore post-18 job or training opportunities, including university courses and apprenticeships.
- If you’d like help to prepare for university interview processes, for example, healthcare MMIs, and build confidence by developing your techniques and practising common questions in a mock interview scenario.
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Consider post-16 training and study choices in the context of any current strengths and subject interests. Work towards developing a career action plan.
Year 12
Discuss university and degree options, as well as vocational routes to careers such as apprenticeships and training roles.
Year 13
Start more in-depth future career planning alongside making final university choices and submitting the UCAS form, or plan a vocational post-A-level training path.
University
Receive support with career planning and advice on graduate schemes and pathways, when to apply and how to prepare for graduate recruitment days and tests. Discuss further study and postgraduate opportunities.
Cost
£75 for an initial session. Subsequent sessions are £70.
Thank you again and I’ll be in contact about any further sessions!”
“My niece was struggling with her midwifery course and realised by the start of her second year that it was the wrong course for her. She wanted to leave but felt very anxious about what the future might hold if she did. She had always loved drama and attained an A at A level so thought she would like to switch to an acting course, but without the security of sixth form teachers behind her wasn’t sure how she could achieve this.
Fiona from Student Navigator put us in touch with Claire Rutherford-Chapman who arranged two online sessions for my niece. In the first session Claire helped her to come up with a career action plan to help her to decide whether she really wanted to pursue an acting career or whether she just did not want to do midwifery. She also provided her with a grid to define the pros and cons of the drama courses she was starting to look at. In the second session she checked on what progress she has made and helped her to write a personal statement that reflected why she had decided to change course and how to put that change in a positive light.
Claire kept in touch with us every step of the way – copying my sister and I into her emails – with my niece’s permission of course! My niece found her very approachable and felt that the advice that she’s been given has been invaluable in helping her to plan her future career.
We would recommend the knowledge and experience that Claire has given her to anyone who is unsure about their chosen course or their future career.”
The importance of self awareness
An assessment of skills, motivators, interests and personal style
How and where to research career paths
Choosing a goal
Making a plan of action
Creating a professional CV
“My very high achieving and very hard to please son in Year 12 was undecided about which route to take after studying A levels and consequently what university courses to apply for. Whether to go down a more expected (with his A level subjects) science route or opt for social sciences was becoming a decision that he was finding incredibly hard to make.
He asked to see Claire, having heard that she had helped a friend of his. She carefully unpicked his talents and skills, helping him to see where his heart and ambitions lay and provided him with an action plan to research and explore.
A couple of sessions with Claire helped him to make an informed decision about studying social sciences. He hasn’t looked back and is now happily studying a highly competitive course at a very respected university.
Claire has a talent for guiding and nurturing young people and I couldn’t recommend her more highly. Thank you!”
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