Career Counselling Services

Welcome to the CCS Website.

We offer career guidance, coaching and counselling. We also run training courses to use career coaching to help others.

No other career advice or coaching service in the UK teaches others how to do this important work.

If you are interested in giving career coaching and counselling to others, go to Career Counselling Training Courses.

All CCS Products can now be purchased online, including these publications:

• The CCS Job Search Guide – reduce the time it takes to find suitable work, with this practical guide to CV writing, preparation for interviews, and much more. Contains several self assessment exercises
  
• The CCS Networking Companion – this guide and workbook will help you appreciate the importance of generating mutually beneficial contacts, as an aid to job search and also within organisations
  
• Career Counselling by Robert Nathan & Linda Hill (Sage, 2006) - this established text book is required reading on all training courses in career counselling. Contains examples of practical self assessment exercises
  

News

STOP PRESS

Please note our next Career Counselling Core Skills training on 20-22 May and 3-4 June will be the last before the autumn.

If you are interested in attending, please contact the CCS office.

See course dates

Our five day Career Coaching & Counselling Training course has now been approved as the basis of the Kingston University Postgraduate Certificate in Career and Talent Management

Contact the CCS office for details

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CCS is proud to announce that we have recently been awarded a NATIONAL TRAINING AWARD for our work in training over 100 BBC Career Coaches!

“ GILLY FREEDMAN, Senior Career Coach at CCS, receiving the 2006 National Training Award from Suzi Perry at a ceremony at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall on 10th October 2006”

If you want career advice, read on.

CCS career advice, counselling and job search programmes range from the opportunity to gain clarity on what motivates you at work, to a complete review of your abilities, values, interests and personality.

Know yourself better, and get in control of your career direction.

Have a read of the statements below. If any apply to you, read more about our Individual Career Counselling programmes

• I want a fulfilling career. Can you help me clarify my strengths and weaknesses, so that I will make my choice wisely?
• I have never had the chance to talk over my career aims objectively. Can you help me do this?
• I feel at a career crossroads. Can you help me decide which way to go?
• I’ve always drifted into my jobs. It now seems the right time to make a definite decision for myself. Can you help me gain a sense of direction?
• I am fairly sure I want to leave my current job. But I am not certain whether to change career, seek a new employer or move within my current organisation. Can you help me decide?
• I’m good at my job, but I don’t enjoy it. Can you help me explore what really motivates me?
• I have growing feelings of dissatisfaction with my job. Can you help me reflect on the suitability of the career I have chosen?
• I am uncertain whether the next ‘step up the ladder’ is suited to me. Can you enable me to gain a more independent view of my situation?
• I’m interested in so many things. Can you help me focus?
• My work and home life are out of balance. Can you help me to regain some perspective, and consequently a more satisfying balance?
• My skills and interests are currently underutilised. Can you help me to think through ways of better using them in or out of work.