Career counselling in Wellington
I assist you to discover and clarify your future work
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
Assessments available at CareerWise
- 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
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.
Self Directed Search Assessment:
The Self Directed Search assessment is popular in other countries like Canada where many Career Practitioners use this tool, it is popular with people of all ages and stages of career. I have used this tool with students at Secondary Schools, and Mature Career Changers.
The Self-Directed Search® (SDS®) is a career interest inventory that asks questions about your aspirations, activities, skills, and interests in different jobs. From the responses, the SDS produces your personal three-letter Summary Code, which you can use to find occupations and fields of study that match well with your personality.
The SDS is based on John Holland’s theory that both people and working environments can be classified according to six basic types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. These personality types are known together as RIASEC.
More than 35 million people worldwide have used the SDS to discover the careers and fields of study that are likely to satisfy them.
The SDS is a standardised assessment, and is distributed by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
