Career Development Overview
Career development is the work of connecting what a person is capable of with where an organisation is going. It is a two-sided problem, and it fails when either side is guessed at.
Career Development
Connect individual potential with organisational opportunity
Connect individual potential with organisational opportunity. We help people understand their strengths, motivations and career possibilities while helping organisations create meaningful pathways for growth and internal mobility.
What we do
From discovery to a next step
Career Discovery
Discovery is the stage before planning: finding out what someone is actually drawn to and good at, rather than what their current job title suggests.
Individual Career Profiles
A career profile gathers what the assessments found into one readable account a person can use in a conversation about their own future.
Career and Capability Profiles
The same person described twice — what they want and what they can do. Development plans that hold are the ones built where those two overlap.
Career Pathways
A pathway is a route, not a destination: the roles that lead towards the work someone wants, and what each step would require of them.
Individual Development Planning
A development plan turns a profile into specific next actions, with the gap it is closing stated plainly enough to know when it has closed.
Employability and Graduate Readiness
For people entering work, development and employability are the same activity. The question is what this person needs before the transition, not after it.
Internal Mobility
Most organisations look outside for capability they already have inside. Mobility work makes internal capability visible enough to move.
Career Transition
Changing direction is easier to do well with evidence than with instinct. Transition support starts from what carries across rather than what is being left behind.
Development solutions
Skills of the future, mapped today
Discover the most important soft and hard skills of the future today, matched to your objectives. Map the competencies and interests of employees. Find gaps and areas for development, discover untapped qualities, and enhance individual performance, teamwork and job satisfaction.
Assessments
Our development assessments
Available through our consultants as part of a development programme.
Professional Inventory
Predict job performance and culture fit by assessing personality traits and values.
Alignment between personal and organisational values boosts performance and satisfaction; clashes drive disengagement and turnover.
What it measures
- 8 personality traits — sociability, responsibility, cautiousness, stress resistance, vigour, original thinking, personal relations, dominance.
- 6 interpersonal values — support, recognition, benevolence, independence, conformity, power.
- 6 personal values — variety, orderliness, achievement, conviction, materialism, goal orientation.
Features
- One questionnaire covering personality and values.
- Reliable, backed by years of research.
- Hard to fake, thanks to a contrasting-statement format.
- Online, unsupervised administration.
Work Style Appraisal
Assess how someone approaches tasks, solves problems and interacts with others at work.
16 work styles organised into four themes: relationships, emotional intelligence, approaches to work, and thinking styles.
Insight into
- Leadership orientation.
- Stress tolerance.
- Independent work and initiative.
- Innovation and persistence.
Learning Style Questionnaire
Measure an individual's preferred style of learning.
Learning is continuous, formal and informal, and over time people develop preferences for how they take new things on.
Four styles
- Activists — hands-on, learning through trial and error.
- Reflectors — plan ahead, methodical and thorough.
- Theorists — big picture, logical and objective.
- Pragmatists — quick to act, practical and realistic.
Career For Me: Professional
Our solution for professionals helps individuals with job experience become more self-aware, improve their motivation, and make the right professional choices to build a fulfilling and successful career.
Career For Me: Professional
For people already in work
Outcomes
- Discover professional interests.
- Explore key motivations and motivational satisfaction.
- Identify perceived strengths.
- Find the right learning and development path.
How it works
How does Career For Me work?
- Step 1
Watch the introductory videos
Get an initial understanding of skills and abilities, and why they matter in career planning.
- Step 2
Take the questionnaire
Take the online questionnaire to discover your unique traits.
Take an assessment - Step 3
Get results instantly
Start exploring career paths with the help of your results. Take the right actions towards your career goal by completing additional activities.
Start with what your people are motivated by
The money personality and strengths assessments are live now — take one and see the report your team would receive.