Careers Advice
Personalised Careers Advice You Can Trust
At Career Analysts, we don’t offer generic career suggestions. We deliver professional, psychology-based careers advice that’s rooted in scientific assessment and real-world understanding. Whether you’re just starting out or planning a career change, we help you identify the best-fit path with confidence.
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Thousands of Happy Customers
Dedicated Career Advisors with 60 Years Experience
Who Our Careers Advice Services Help
Teenagers & School Leavers
Choosing A-Levels, university, or your first job? We help you explore options and understand your strengths from an early age.
Twenties: Graduates & Young Professionals
Not sure what to do with your degree, or whether you’re on the right path? We offer structured advice to help you start strong and avoid missteps.
Over-Thirties & Mid-Career Professionals
Feeling unfulfilled or at a crossroads? Our advisors help you re-evaluate your direction and explore new, realistic possibilities.
Psychometric backed advice & guidance
Career guidance for all ages
One-on-one career advice & support
What’s Included in Our Careers Advice Programme
Our careers advice service is one of the most comprehensive in the UK. We don’t offer superficial suggestions, we build a deep understanding of you and use that to guide your career journey.
Psychometric Career Assessments
Your journey begins with approximately five hours of online psychometric tests. These explore every major factor that influences your career satisfaction, including your interests, personality traits, values, aptitudes, and practical life circumstances.
The assessments are easy to complete and multiple choice, there are no right or wrong answers, just honest insights about you.
Expert Analysis by an Occupational Psychologist
Once you’ve completed the assessments, your results are reviewed in detail by a qualified Occupational Psychologist, not a computer.
All our advisors hold both a BSc in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology. This ensures that the guidance you receive is accurate, insightful, and specifically tailored to your profile.
One-to-One Career Consultation
Next, you’ll meet with your careers advisor in a private session, either online or in person. Together, you’ll explore your results and discuss the career options that align with your strengths and aspirations.
Your advisor will present well-researched suggestions and help you weigh up the pros and cons of each path based on your goals and practical needs.
Your Personalised Career Report
After your consultation, you’ll receive a bespoke written report prepared by your advisor. This detailed document includes visual graphs of your test results, a clear interpretation of what they mean for your career, and specific recommendations for roles that suit you.
Many of our clients refer back to this report throughout their working lives, it’s a valuable tool for long-term direction and decision-making.
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Why Choose Career Analysts?
Trusted for Over 60 Years of Professional Careers Advice
Career Analysts has been helping people find the right career path since 1965. With a proven track record spanning three generations, our service has become one of the UK’s most respected names in personalised career guidance.
Qualified Psychologists, Not Generic Advisors
Every advisor at Career Analysts is a qualified Occupational Psychologist, with both a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Occupational Psychology. This means your careers advice is backed by scientific understanding, professional expertise, and years of experience.
Tailored Advice, Not One-Size-Fits-All
Our approach is built around you, not a set of pre-defined career categories. We take the time to understand your values, personality, and life circumstances, delivering career recommendations that genuinely fit who you are and what you want from life.
A Service That Works, Generation After Generation
Many of our clients return to us decades later with their children and grandchildren. Why? Because our advice works. We’ve helped thousands of people across all ages and backgrounds build successful, fulfilling careers based on clarity, confidence and purpose.
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How Our Careers Advice Works
Our careers advice programme follows a proven, four-step process designed to uncover your strengths, clarify your direction, and guide you towards the career that suits you best.
Choose the Right Programme for You
Complete Your Online Psychometric Assessments
Attend Your One-to-One Career Consultation
Receive Your Personal Career Report
- Programme: Career Change
Witold
I appreciate your work in helping me at this difficult time. I need to digest the results and act soon. Could you thank the careers adviser on my behalf for her work, recommendations and websites? She might be pleased to know that I have been short-listed for the Lay Chaplain post at New Hall School.
- 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: Teenagers
Robert
Just a quick note to thank you again for all your help and to let you know I have been offered a place at Aston Business School so coming to see you last summer was most definitely the catalyst I needed to improve my prospects.
- Programme: Teenagers
Zinnia
Thank you very much for providing such a useful analysis! It is really helping with decisions regarding a university course.
- Programme: Teenagers
Louise
The aspect that I found particularly useful was which career would suit me and what to study at university. If someone needed it, I would definitely recommend career analysts without a doubt.
- Programme: Career Change
Emma
Please could you tell your occupational psychologist that I took the job with the charity and I’m loving it! Thanks!
- 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
Aura Brooks
By far the best team I’ve ever worked with. They truly understood the look I was going for and completely nailed it! I would highly recommend them as a company, you simply just won’t find any better team!
- Programme: Career Change
Richard
The Career Analysts experience provided me with valuable information. The Occupational Psychologist gave me a lot to think about and the report was a good summary.
- 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: New Career
Oliver
The process helped me to understand my strengths and where my areas of interests lie. I feel like I have a better vision of what career I want to go into. Leo took the time to help me out and was very patient when dealing with me. The programme was structured well. Although it was quite challenging I felt as though I benefited from it. The report helped me to gain a better and more solid understanding of my career pathway.
I understood through this programme how I could utilise my strengths to serve a purpose. I feel it is better to follow your intuition than follow a course of action you are not familiar with. I found that working with the psychologist helped me to gain a different perspective on work. The experience also caused me to change my opinion on my career options.
- Programme: Teenagers
Joost
The consultant was really nice and asked good questions. I am extremely happy with her report. It is really detailed and I can see that time and effort was put into it.
- Programme: Career Change
Emily
Just wanted to say what a lovely chat I had with Mary today. I felt like she took the time to really understand me and see how to tailor careers to suit me personally rather than trying to force anything on me, and I appreciated how at ease she made me and felt the overall experience was very rewarding so I look forward to reading her report further to the session.
- 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
Jack
Career Analysts helped me to find out what sort of careers I am best suited for, all of the suggestions appealed to me and some of which I never would have considered without their help. My career consultant was very easy to talk with, I never felt under pressure and the consultation was an absolute joy to have done. The report was very interesting and informative and the Careers Analysts experience overall has helped me to know more about where my strengths lie and has given me some direction.
- 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: Teenagers
Zinnia
Dear Leo,
Thank you very much for providing such a useful analysis! It is really helping with decisions regarding a university course.
Kind regards,
Zinnia
- 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: Career Change
Dee
I must say it makes a great deal of difference – thank you very much for an enjoyable experience.
- Programme: Teenagers
Please can you let her know that it proved to be money very well spent! The analysis (interest in Social Services) opened up possibilities for university degrees and suggested that she studied Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE). She’d never heard of such a degree. Your analysis & report opened up the possibilities.
PPE appealed. She applied to a few top universities, & after an entrance exam and interview has now been offered a conditional place to study PPE at Christchurch College, Oxford University.
For the first time in her life she’s proud of herself! Remarkable really.
So thank you.
- 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: Career Change
Marie-Therese
I found the Career Analysts experience very pertinent. It has highlighted my frustration at work doing secretarial work. I also found the personality profile interesting. I know that I am determined and driven, but I did not realize to what extent i.e. I did not think I was more driven than other people and I see now how this aspect of my personality conflicts with routine work. I realize that I need to find a job that provides outlet for this. Hitherto, I have done this through studying.
- Programme: Teenagers
Victoria
You helped me to find all my options and to think of careers on a bigger scale. The aptitude profile was particularly useful – I thought it was fantastic.
- Programme: Teenagers
Tallulah
The best parts were finding out about my strengths and weaknesses and the analysts if my personality helped me to find out what I might find fulfilling/rewarding out of a career. Also the recommendations of career paths and just parts where it was recognised whether or not a certain aspect of a career would suit me, e.g working in a team.
- Programme: Career Change
Sophie
I haven’t had a chance to go through the official feedback process yet. I will though, but meanwhile must say how pleased I am with Mary’s report. It’s been such a helpful process and I’m delighted with the advice she has offered. I shall follow through with the proper feedback process ASAP.
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Client Success Stories
Over the last 60 years, we’ve helped tens of thousands of people gain career clarity and take meaningful steps toward fulfilling work. Our approach doesn’t just point you in the right direction, it changes lives.
Many of our clients return years later with their children and even grandchildren, confident that the same personalised, psychology-led guidance will help the next generation succeed.
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Start your journey with trusted, personalised careers advice from qualified professionals.
Whether you’re at a crossroads or simply want clarity about your future, our careers advice programmes give you the insight, support and direction you need to move forward with confidence.
We combine proven psychology with real-world guidance, so you can make decisions that feel right for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is careers advice?
Careers advice is a professional service that helps you understand which career paths best match your personality, strengths, interests and goals. At Career Analysts, it includes psychometric testing, expert analysis by a qualified psychologist, and one-to-one guidance tailored specifically to you.
Who is careers advice for?
Our careers advice is suitable for anyone looking to make confident, informed career decisions, including:
Teenagers choosing A-Levels or university courses
Graduates exploring options after university
Professionals seeking a career change or new direction
Individuals re-entering the workforce or feeling unfulfilled in their current role
What qualifications do your careers advisors have?
All of our advisors are fully qualified Occupational Psychologists. Each holds at least:
A BSc in Psychology.
An MSc in Occupational Psychology.
This ensures that your guidance is backed by scientific understanding, not just experience or opinion.
How do the psychometric tests work?
You’ll complete around 5 hours of online tests, covering areas such as personality, aptitudes, interests, work values and practical needs. The tests are multiple choice and easy to follow. There are no right or wrong answers, just honest insights to help your advisor understand who you are.
Can I take part if I’m based outside London or the UK?
Yes. Most of our clients now complete the process remotely using Zoom or Teams. As long as you have internet access, you can access our full careers advice service from anywhere.
What happens in the one-to-one consultation?
You’ll meet privately with your careers advisor (online or in person) to discuss your assessment results and explore tailored career suggestions. Together, you’ll review your options and consider next steps based on your strengths, values and circumstances.
What will I get in the final career report?
Your written report includes:
A summary of your psychometric test results.
A personalised interpretation of what they mean.
A list of recommended careers.
Guidance on qualifications, pathways, or next steps.
This report is unique to you and written by your advisor, not generated by software.
How long does the process take?
From start to finish, most clients complete the process in a short few weeks. The assessments can be done in your own time, and the consultation and report follow shortly after.