WHY CCS?

• Since 1978 CCS has enabled thousands of people to gain more fulfilment in their working lives
• CCS expertise utilises psychometric tests and other questionnaires, together with professional counselling, to ensure our clients receive an objective view of themselves
• We are acknowledged UK market leaders in career counselling
• Robert Nathan, CCS’s managing director, is co-author of the respected book ‘Career Counselling’ (Sage, 2005)
• We have worked with clients across the breadth of the commercial and not-for-profit sectors
• The CCS approach to career counselling is the benchmark for professional practice in the UK: we have trained hundreds of practitioners in our approach.

THE CAREER COUNSELLING SERVICES APPROACH

Effective career counselling takes time. We realise that talking over and clarifying your thinking about career development and choices can be complex. We appreciate that you may want to address how your personal, home and work ‘lives’ influence one another. We are therefore sensitive to the way you feel at this important time.
Our career counsellors have professional qualifications in occupational psychology, career counselling and counselling.

At CCS you will have a number of one-to-one meetings with an experienced and trained Career Counsellor. We also make use of aptitude tests, questionnaires and ‘self appraisal exercises’ which can highlight potential, skills, interests and personality. These can be useful to help you assess the suitability of different career opportunities, training courses and work environments.

Meetings are usually arranged at intervals of at least one week to provide you with sufficient time to reflect on the discussions and questionnaire results. Where considerable travelling is involved it may be possible to combine two meetings on the same day.

CCS Programmes are offered in three stages:

Stage 1: Insight; Stage 2: Planning; Stage 3: Action

Now go to What you can gain from Career Counselling