Career Wise
Working with you for a new future
Career counselling in Wellington
Are you needing to change careers or are you looking for a totally different career? Are you looking at your choices for work or looking at what to study for a career? I will work with you to look at choices, taking your interests and skills into account.
I assist you to discover and clarify your future work
Career Intelligence: for Mature workers
Through an in depth interview and assessment online, I will work with you to identify where you would like your career to develop next.
You are likely a mature worker, possibly been made redundant recently and need clarification of your direction now.
The Career Intelligence assessment gives you a comprehensive appraisal of all your competencies, so you can use these for a new CV or for new role interviews.
It also gives you areas of further career development in new career areas focused on your interests.
The Career Intelligence assessment will clarify your new directions.
The Career Intelligence assessment has been assessed by CDAA, Australia and received a "commendation".
CareerSmart: for Secondary Students and Young Adults
Finding a career path can be difficult, especially if you are a school leaver without a great deal of experience of the world of work. A Career Counsellor can assist you to identify your strengths and skills and use them for a career that makes it enjoyable to go to work everyday.
The CareerSmart assessment assists you with career development and the decisions your making in Secondary School Years 11-13, University or Trades.
Recommendations
“Kate was invaluable in understanding me, my experience, personality, and skillset. This resulted in a top-notch CV and within a short space of time lots of interviews, and choice of jobs. Kate is very skilled at what she does, I can highly recommend her”. - Manager
Leaving School ? - try the CareerSmart online approach to discovering your future
When leaving school or university your next options are not always obvious.
Discussion on options and directions can assists people to clarify what motivates them next.
Covid has created confusion for some and fear in others about their original direction. For other it has clarified what they what next.
Original University choices may have been for interest only, and did not have a career path that was evident.
At CareerWise I enjoy working with students on this junction in life, which is clear to many, but not everyone.
Here is a recent comment from a student who accessed CareerWise in 2022.
"After finishing university I was confused as to where I wanted to go next. Catherine at CareerWise helped me figure out what I enjoy, and where that could lead me. There are so many options that I had no idea about. Now I have the contacts and knowledge to confidently move forward in my Career" , Graduate.
Assessments available at CareerWise
Career Intelligence Assessment and Coaching
Assessment
available for online
Recommended for Mature workers changing roles because of redundancy or desiring a new direction.
The Career Intelligence assessment is an online assessment developed in New Zealand, that provides you with a summary report. It identifies what matters to you and what motivates you.
The insights gained will confirm and strengthen what you may have lost touch with along your own career journey.
The assessment will update you on how you relate to your work and what you offer now.
Your report provides rich information for you and your coach to work with and set goals and objectives for career sustainability and professional development. It will help you create the change you want in your working life.
The assessment has six section that cover the following:
- Life Values - What matters to you in life
- Work Values - What matters to you in life
- Career Motivators - what motivates you
- Fields of Work - fields/industries of work that interest you
- Functions/Skills that you want to utilise and grow in
- Work Competencies - the competencies or aptitudes you bring to a workplace
Group administration:
If you have a Group of people needing the Career Intelligence administered, you can request a DIRECT GROUP LINK, this link provides access to the career assessment to a group of people being made redundant.
CareerSmart
Assessment available for online
Recommended for Secondary School Years 11-13 and University students and Trades.
A new online assessment combined with coaching is a useful start to exploring ideas for your future work; and knowing how your background can influence your contribution will help you to learn and grow in the future.
We know that making study, career and work options is hard, at the best of times, however this assessment should help the process of making these choices easier for you.
The process when taking this assessment will look like this:
- Your background
- Things that are important to you
- Your Career Motivation
- Your Career Interests
- The strengths you bring to your career development
GROUP LINK: If you have a class that you would like to use CareerSmart with, you can request a DIRECT GROUP LINK so that students can click on the link to an assessment. This can provide a report for all the students in the group that can be a class session.
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