Career Coaching
Personalised Career Coaching for Progress and Fulfilment
Whether you’re feeling stuck in your current role, looking to transition into something new, or eager to accelerate your professional development, our Career Coaching programme is designed to help you move forward with clarity, confidence and purpose.
With one-to-one support from an experienced coach, you’ll work through your challenges, set meaningful goals, and take practical steps to achieve them.
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Thousands of Happy Customers
Dedicated Career Advisors with 60 Years Experience
Stuck in Your Role or Unsure What Comes Next?
Why People Get Stuck in Their Careers
Many professionals know they want more from their work but aren’t sure how to get there. The next step might feel too uncertain, or too daunting. As a result, they remain where they are, even when they know it’s not right.
Some begin to make progress, only to stall at the first obstacle. That’s where career coaching makes a real difference: by helping you overcome the mental, practical and strategic barriers to change.
Career Coaching Helps You Make Change Happen
Career coaching is a practical, forward-focused way to move from where you are now to where you want to be. Your coach works with you to define realistic objectives, break them into manageable steps, and guide you through each phase with clear focus and accountability.
Whether you’re aiming for a promotion, considering a new direction, or simply want to feel more fulfilled at work,we help you make it happen.
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Psychometric backed advice & guidance
Career guidance for all ages
One-on-one career advice & support
What to Expect from Career Coaching
Goal-Oriented, One-to-One Coaching
Each coaching session lasts one to two hours and is entirely focused on your objectives. Together, you and your coach will review your progress, tackle specific challenges, and agree on actions for the next session.
You’ll receive honest, supportive feedback, and a structured plan that builds momentum.
Explain how each session is structured, including the focus on agreed objectives, action points and ongoing momentum.
A Typical Career Coaching Programme
We recommend booking an initial block of four sessions, usually held weekly. Many clients continue for six to twelve sessions depending on their goals and the complexity of their situation.
There are no long-term commitments. We offer a flexible, hourly rate with no hidden costs, and we’ll never try to sell you more than you need.
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Career Coaching for Professional Development
Are You Making the Most of Your Talents?
Career coaching isn’t just for those looking to change roles, it’s also for professionals who want to thrive in their current career. You might be aiming for promotion, thinking of retraining, or simply wanting to boost your performance in your existing position.
Whatever your goal, our coaches will help you maximise your potential.
Common Career Coaching Focus Areas
- Leadership and people management
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Navigating workplace stress or conflict
- Boosting confidence and personal impact
- Assessing retraining or further qualifications
- Aligning your values with your work
Stay on Track in a Competitive Market
Today’s working environment is fast-paced and ever-changing. Our coaching helps you stay relevant, self-aware, and prepared, so you can make confident decisions about your future and stay ahead of the curve.
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How Our Career Coaches Support You
Fully Qualified, Experienced Career Coaches
Our career coaches are trained professionals with real-world experience. They’ve helped thousands of individuals progress in their careers by offering not only guidance, but the encouragement and structure needed to make long-term change.
Tailored Sessions Based on Your Goals
There’s no “one-size-fits-all” approach here. Every coaching relationship begins with understanding your personal circumstances, career history, and future hopes. From there, we build a plan that works for you, on your terms.
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Is Career Coaching Right for You?
Questions to Ask Yourself
If you’ve asked yourself any of the following questions, career coaching could be the right next step:
Am I progressing in my career as I think I should – how can I accelerate this?
Is the organisation I’m working for the culturally right for me?
Am I making the most of my talents, abilities, experience and qualifications?
Should I retrain or update my qualifications?
Are there areas, such as leadership skills, that are holding me back?
Is stress, anger or resentment an issue and restricting my progress?
- Programme: New Career
Cathy
Thanks for emailing the report. I found the day really useful and look forward to reading it.
- Programme: Career Change
Sophie
Some of the suggestions were things I had already thought of, but Mary had new ideas too + tried to wrestle with my myriad of issues! It’s been great for me to try and see why some ideas are no longer appealing (albeit work areas in which I have long-standing experience), and to have a really sound baseline of ideas for me to consider what I do next. Particularly useful was the discussion with Mary and the efforts she took to try and understand my circumstances. Her moral support for my current career / employment difficulties.
- Programme: Teenagers
Alexandra
Thank you very much for the report and the support that you have given Alex, she found her interview and report immensely useful and uplifting, just what she needed.
- Programme: Career Change
Amy
I feel that I have taken the first steps to changing my career to do something I have always wanted to do and I appreciate all the help that you gave me, particularly my discussions with the Occupational Psychologist. Without that day I doubt that I would have had the confidence to make the necessary changes, or even able to sort out the options available to me. Now, I feel I have had a new lease of life and I am thoroughly enjoying it.
- Programme: Teenagers
Arron
We approached Career Analysts seeking clarification about our younger son’s best direction in his post-16 education and future career direction. Understanding his strengths and likes we had to some extent done our own research, but we were still unsure as to his best direction. The testing, interview and research carried out before/after his interview all indicated that he was indeed heading in the right direction. The clarification from Mary, our son’s adviser, was most valuable to us – and indeed our son. Mary has obviously done a large amount of research in producing her written report. This is why, for example, she was able to suggest a possible course at an institution which we would never have known about or considered ourselves. The service offered by Career Analysts should be considered as an investment – in your own, or your child’s future. By all means do your own research which will undoubtedly prove beneficial. The testing, interpretation of results and pursuant opportunities regarding future education and employment opportunities is not something you will easily navigate as a result of your own efforts though. So, if you can afford, I’d say buy.
- Programme: Teenagers
Charlotte
Hi, I’m sorting out papers and I re-read my report from Career Analysts from 1993, by Alexis Hallam. She really got me! I’m absolutely full of amazement about how accurate her assessment was in terms of my work needs and personality. I now have my dream job teaching psychology part time at a school in Bath, three gorgeous children and good self-esteem! With thanks and appreciation (I didn’t believe in myself back in 1993).
- Programme: Career Change
Pippa
Hi Leo, Many thanks for the report, it’s been really helpful. Thanks.
- Programme: New Career
Simon
Hi Leo, thank you for emailing me a copy of my report, I have had a good look and am very happy with its contents. I have found the process of Career Analysts thoroughly enjoyable and highly motivating. I have already begun to implement some changes in my life which are starting to reap benefits and open up new opportunities along the way. I feel that the type of information I was given following the assessment of my test results and the life skills interview with Sherridan is an opportunity that everyone should be afforded.
It seems an almost natural step to take between school and further education and I know that I would have certainly benefitted from this process at that stage in my life, but that said, I am not about to let 15 years get in the way of my goals now. Please pass on my kindest thanks to Sherridan for giving me the opportunity to see my true potential and for being so understanding when she listened to my ramblings surrounding my life thus far and the accident. Many thanks again to you both.
- Programme: New Career
Lisa
HI and thanks… I didn’t know the significance of the report until now… 12 years on!
12 years ago I came to Career Analyst as I had just been made redundant. I remember spending an interesting day with you and did a whole bunch of tests and had a chat with someone.
Back then, I had commitments and didn’t really take on board the significance of what the report was actually telling me, nor did I listen to my gut & heart which were both saying “go for your dreams” and so I went back to Corporate, mainly to pay for our mortgage, for another 8 years.
I pulled out my report at the weekend and had to smile. The 3 key jobs recommended back then were: Executive Coach, Occupational Psychologist, Trainer. All I remember from the meeting was Occupational Psychologist and at 34, I didn’t fancy going back to Uni and re-training.
3 years ago I changed my life and walked away from Corporate – guess what I do now? Yep, Training and Coaching and I love it! I may not be earning as much as I did in my Corporate role, but I feel my life is enriched by what I do…
Just wanted to say a belated thanks to whoever helped me back then…!
- Programme: Career Change
Cath
A belated thank you so much for your advice and support last week – and for the comments/tips below. It was an extremely useful session, well-tailored to my needs and has helped to structure and focus my thinking; It has also enabled me to feel more confident about preparing for/addressing interviews.
- Programme: Teenagers
Charlotte
I felt that everything I talked about with my consultant was relevant to me and how I want to work out my future at university and my career. The personality profiling and aptitude tests were particularly useful.
- Programme: Teenagers
Lily
Hi Leo,
I’m not sure if this will reach you after all these years, but worth a try!
I just wanted to say how accurate Lily’s report and recommendation turned out to be. At the time, she was a little disappointed that the analysis didn’t support her career goals at that point. She was keen on law and the recommendations of a healthcare/medical path didn’t sit well. The healthcare university courses mentioned in the report were something she didn’t want to go for and she ended up graduating in political science from Birmingham (you did recommend PPE as a more general option).
Lily is now working as a patient flow manager in the NHS. She loves her job. The interesting thing is that she wasn’t consciously drawn to this as a result of her report. But, as it turns out, your recommendations of working in management and policy in a healthcare setting was spot on.
I came across her report after I recommended Career Analysts to a friend. I sent the report onto Lily as a reminder. She had forgotten the detail and was a bit spooked (in a good way) about how accurate it was.
We shouldn’t be surprised of course. However, I just wanted to say, after all this time, what a useful and insightful experience Career Analyst was. I will be definitely recommending you.
Regards.
Stephen Chapman
- Programme: Teenagers
Max
Belatedly thank you to you and your colleagues for your work with our son Max. It was very insightful for us as parents and we felt Max was very well held In the process. As and when he is ready, we may come back to you for more help, but he isn’t there as yet.
- Programme: New Career
Gabrielle
Following my consultation with Mary last week I have to say a huge thank you to you both.
Mary covered all of the career options I had raised and provided extremely helpful career and personal advice over an unexpected 3 hour session!
She really seemed to understand what I was needing to get out of the consultation and I have taken away some valuable things about myself that I hadn’t realised or was reluctant to accept about myself prior to the session.
I now have a better understanding as to the type of career that would be suited to me and now it’s a case of working out which one I want to pursue.
The consultation has provided me with valuable insight about myself so thank you again to everyone at Career Analysts.
- Programme: Career Change
Barbara
I came to Career Analysts following a divorce and being made redundant from a dead-end job. I saw an advert and decided to make the investment. It was the best money I have ever spent. Your psychologist told me – who had been a failure at school – that I was in the top 2% in the country for my problem-solving and spatial skills and that I had the capability to study for a degree! She brushed aside my protestations about not having O or A levels or First Degree and told me that I would ‘find a way’.
She was so right – albeit that it was some nine years later that I was accepted onto a MSc in strategic HRM at Anglia Ruskin University as a result of conducting a three-and-a-half-year major change consultancy assignment. To cap it all, I was accepted into MENSA a year later. I will be singing your praises and recommending you to anyone who needs you.
Thank you.
- Programme: Teenagers
Robert
Hi Leo, My consultation went very well and it definitely helped me clarify the area of undergraduate study that I want to go into. Thank you very much!
- Programme: New Career
Jonathan
I have kept my career report from 1995 by Alexis Hallam and periodically read it. Very accurate and still resonates. Out of curiosity I went to your web site and see I am not the only person who has done this. Alexis must have been very good.
- Programme: Teenagers
James
We were really pleased with the results of James’s session with your company. He is very happy in his job (as an electrician) and is doing really well. We have spoken very highly of the results and have given your details to lots of people!
We would like to book a similar session for our younger son Ben. He has just taken his GCSEs, so we would like to book an appointment for after he gets his results (some time in the week of 28th August).
- Programme: New Career
Patrick
On 26th October I received my Career Analysts report. It gave me a lot of ideas on where to go in the future; I found the service exemplary and the staff efficient and friendly. I have enrolled in training courses that I have an interest in and that would be beneficial to my future career. I have been offered a job in a sector in which I can progress and exploit my full potential. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Career Analysts for the fantastic advice and service, helping me to finally get my career on the right path. Keep up the good work!
- Programme: Career Change
Jason
Thank you for your time this morning, I felt you made a really excellent assessment and feel encouraged that there is a way forward emerging now.
- Programme: New Career
Alex
Many thanks for the report – incredibly insightful stuff, I’m sure it will serve me well going forward. I’ll be sure to get in touch should I want further support.
- Programme: Career Change
Harry
Generally this was an excellent day! The Occupational Psychologist was a very intelligent, confident, interesting person. I really enjoyed our conversation.
- Programme: Teenagers
Francesca
The psychologist gave me realistic advice according to the type of person I am and my education and experience. I think she was very accurate. I feel I have a number and a range of choices, and I understand the areas that I would be successful in. The aptitude tests were quite enlightening.
- Programme: Career Change
Andrew
The Career Analysts’ experience was useful in confirming what should be my first step in making a positive career adjustment. The Occupational Psychologist was very easy to talk to; a very relaxed session. Honest and realistic about the current job market/climate.
- Programme: New Career
Selina
Hi there,
I just want to thank you Leo, and if you can pass on my feedback to Sherridan – she was absolutely fantastic and took the time to explain everything to me and really going beyond just the career aspect of it 🙂
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For over 60 years, Career Analysts has helped thousands of individuals make meaningful progress in their careers. From building confidence to securing promotions or navigating major career changes, our clients consistently tell us that our coaching has made a lasting impact.
Many return to us at different stages of their journey, and often recommend our services to colleagues, friends and family.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is career coaching?
Career coaching is a structured, one-to-one process designed to help you clarify your goals, overcome obstacles and make progress in your professional life. It provides practical guidance and accountability to help you move from where you are now to where you want to be.
How is career coaching different from career counselling?
Career counselling often focuses on identifying suitable career paths, typically through assessments and analysis. Career coaching is action-oriented, it supports you in achieving specific goals, such as getting promoted, improving leadership skills or navigating a career change.
Who is career coaching suitable for?
Our career coaching is ideal for professionals at any stage, whether you’re early in your career, mid-level and seeking growth, or exploring a new direction. It’s also beneficial for individuals returning to work or managing significant change in their working life.
How many coaching sessions will I need?
We recommend starting with a minimum of four sessions to gain traction, though many clients opt for between six and twelve depending on their goals. There’s no obligation to commit long-term, we work at your pace and on your terms.
What happens during a coaching session?
Each session is tailored to your objectives. You’ll review progress with your coach, address current challenges, and agree on next steps. Sessions typically last between one and two hours and are held weekly or fortnightly, depending on your needs.
Can coaching help with specific skills like leadership or communication?
Yes. Career coaching can focus on targeted areas such as leadership development, team management, communication, confidence, or handling workplace stress. Your coach will work with you to identify and strengthen the skills most relevant to your goals.
Is everything we discuss confidential?
Absolutely. All coaching sessions are confidential and provide a safe, professional space for honest discussion and self-reflection.