Career Counselling
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What is Career Counselling?
Typically, our clients aren’t sure what direction they want to head in but know they’re not satisfied with where they are now.
Our career counselling service takes an in-depth approach to understanding you and finding the career that lines up with your passion, skills, and interests.
How does it work?
Many people aren’t sure whether to engage the assistance of a career counsellor because they’re unsure exactly what the service involves. Career counselling involves undergoing:
- Identification of skills you enjoy doing vs. skills you’re good at
- One-on-one consultation
- Career assessments
- Career action plan
- Skills gap analysis
- Career mapping
Once these factors are mapped out on a matrix, it’s easy to identify your ideal role.
What are the benefits of Career Counselling?
A career consultation can be a huge asset to improving not only your career but also your life. It helps to redefine what you can offer the workforce and what you might be interested in pursuing. For many people, there are options out there that fit them perfectly, but they don’t know they exist. The key benefits of career counselling are:
- Determining your strengths, interests, and values
- Understanding your available career options
- Gaining support from a professional
- Enhancing your personal brand
- Identifying options and choices
- Broadening your perspective
- Setting direction and goals
How will a career consultation help me find a job?
If you’re engaging a career counsellor, you need to know exactly how they’re going to help you secure your dream job. We recommend taking the time to find the right fit for you. Even if you’re keen to get the ball rolling, finding the right career counsellor puts you in the best position possible.
At Resumes Done Right we help you:
- Understand the roles you can play in the workplace
- Develop a strategy to improve your job search
- Prepare for the interview process/questions
- Gain access to valuable resources
- Build your decision-making skills
- Improve your networking skills
- Negotiate a job offer
- Understand yourself
Book in a free initial consultation with our career counsellor to learn more about how we can help you!
How we can help you find the next step for your career
Your career counsellor from Resumes Done Right is your highly experienced guide assisting you to secure your dream job. We help you understand where you are currently and where you want to go by taking you through the steps needed to achieve your ideal result.
Resumes Done Right achieves this goal by gaining a thorough understanding of your entire career history, your skills, and importantly, your goals. Our extensive service covers the following:
- Discovering obstacles stopping you from achieving your goal
- Career advice to improve your current role
- Giving you the strategies to change career
- Finding clarity in your objectives
- Applying for promotions
- Identifying skill gaps
What comes after Career Counselling?
Once you have identified your dream job, the next step is to start applying for your ideal role. Depending on your circumstance, you may need additional assistance in this phase. This can include a number of services Resumes Done Right offers.
Ready to get your dream job? Work with Resumes Done Right to create a resume that highlights all your unique skills and ticks all the boxes.
To back up your well-crafted resume, it’s important to have a tailored cover letter that highlights each skill needed for the specific jobs you’re applying for.
If a job you’re wanting to apply for has key selection criteria, we can help you hit each point and highlight your relevant skills the employer is seeking.
Not sure how your current resume stacks up? Our expert team offer a FREE resume review and provide constructive feedback to improve it before applying for your next job.
Frequently asked questions
Career Counselling is designed to help you find your interests, skills, and driving passion. This helps us identify the industry and job that would best suit you. From there we define the road map to help you get there.
This service is suitable for anyone during any stage of their career. The main goal of a career counsellor is to remove the stressors that come with career change and development. We then set you up to move forward with the application for your dream job.
When looking for a career counsellor you will be faced with varying options and varying costs associated with these options. Typically, you will receive what you pay for, therefore a bargain price might not facilitate the guidance you were hoping for.
The costs behind career consulting involve a lot more than just the time the consultant spends with you. Between research, administration, and liaising with clients, costs can range from $150 for a basic service, all the up to $1000 for an elite level career coach.
It is difficult to define the types of career counsellors because they often have varied backgrounds depending on what they studied or industries they worked in previously.
The most important thing when looking for a career counsellor is to ensure they provide a high-quality service and take the time to understand you and your goals.
The basis of what all quality career counsellors do is observe, discuss, and match your ideal career based on what they’ve observed.
The right career counsellor will minimise the stress of changing career and guide you through to the end goal, a new job! By strategising your approach, career counsellors work to gain an understanding of what fits your skills, and most importantly your wants. An effective career counsellor will:
- Enable you to explore the best career options
- Fully understand your career opportunities
- Help provide clarity and resolve confusion
- Enable you to make educated decisions
- Help you achieve career satisfaction
- Help you with career development
- Help you with career preparation
- Plan out a successful career plan
- Set an achievable career goal
CV and Resume Writing Services for Every Industry
We're a Small Team with 20+ years of Recruitment and Resume Writing Experience Across All Industries
Executives, Finance, HR, Marketing & Sales
Leadership isn’t measured by your job title. It’s measured by your impact.
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You’ve solved complex business problems. Don’t let a basic resume hide that.
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