Alistair Stirling is a qualified and registered careers professional with over 10 years’ experience in helping adults make informed choices about their future career paths.
Stirling Careers Consultancy provides information advice and guidance to help people who are:
Whatever your need or wherever you are in your career, Stirling Careers Consultancy can help.
We will have an initial Free Telephone consultation with you to find out what you are hoping to achieve from a career guidance interview. Then we will agree a date and time to meet either online through Skype or telephone or face-to-face, for those living in London, South-East London or Kent.
We will then send you a brief career discussion questionnaire asking a series of questions to get you thinking about what you want to achieve from your session. This will entail finding out about your previous work experience and thoughts about what has influenced your career thinking to date. We will also ask you to send through your curriculum vitae (CV).
A careers adviser will read through your responses to the career discussion questionnaire posed very carefully and look at your CV to gain an understanding of what you want to get out of a careers session within the hour.
The aim of the first part of the interview is to build rapport clarifying exactly what you want. You may have changed your mind or moved forward from when you completed the questionnaire. We want to make sure you get the most value out of a one-to-one careers interview.
You will work with a qualified and registered careers adviser who does not know you and is not emotionally invested in you but can look at you and your situation objectively.
We can look at you objectively and really listen to you to find out exactly what you are looking for and through working in collaboration with you we can help you move forward.
A careers advice session involves working on a one on one basis with you to find out:
We work through a series of questions to ascertain what you are looking for. We then move on to thinking about how you can take this thinking to the next level. Very often you may have been mulling over these ideas or lack of ideas for months and in some cases years. Having the opportunity to talk and explain your ideas to somebody can be really powerful and quite uplifting for the individual concerned.
Through using our experience and expertise we can make suggestions of ideas that you may not have thought about or even reframe things that you have already thought about and considered.
At the end of the session you will have an action plan with clear action points with dates alongside to take away and implement. We believe it is important to have dates alongside the action points. Ideas for action points could be:
Against each action point we will agree a targeted date for completion.
Stirling Careers Consultancy will follow-up with any necessary research and email it through to you afterwards.
Firstly, we specialise in helping you if you are still unsure of your career direction. We do this by offering you an initial individual tailored career guidance interview to find out more about your career aspirations, preferences, previous career choices and interests.
We follow this up by offering you the opportunity to undertake psychometric assessments if you are still not sure about your future career direction or you may need confirmation you are choosing the right career. We are trained and qualified to deliver psychometric assessments to clients.
