Career Counselling
Career Counselling Tailored to Every Stage of Life
Since 1965, Career Analysts has provided trusted, expert-led career counselling across the UK. Whether you’re a student, graduate, mid-career professional or seeking a fresh start, our tailored programmes are designed to help you make confident, informed career decisions.
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Thousands of Happy Customers
Dedicated Career Advisors with 60 Years Experience
Career Counselling Services by Age Group
Teenagers & School Leavers
Unsure about your A-Levels, university choices, or whether to enter the workforce?
We help you understand your strengths, explore career options, and make smart decisions early on.
Twenties: Graduates & Young Professionals
Near the end of your degree or early in your career and questioning your next step?
Our guidance provides clarity and direction to help you launch a career that suits your strengths and aspirations.
Over-Thirties & Mid-Career Professionals
Feeling stuck or seeking a change?
We’ll help you reassess your goals, uncover new opportunities, and align your career with your current life priorities and values.
Psychometric backed advice & guidance
Career guidance for all ages
One-on-one career advice & support
What Our Career Counselling Programmes Include
Comprehensive Psychometric Testing
Our tests assess your interests, abilities, personality and values to build a full picture of who you are.
Detailed Personal Analysis
A professional career counsellor breaks down your results to identify strengths, challenges, and best-fit roles.
Expert Career Advice
Get one-to-one guidance with a qualified Occupational Psychologist to explore career directions tailored to your unique profile.
Personalised Career Report
Receive a full written report with bespoke career recommendations and next steps to take.
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Why Choose Career Analysts?
With over 50 years of experience and a nationwide reputation for excellence, Career Analysts is one of the UK’s leading providers of professional career counselling. Unlike generic career services, we offer a bespoke, research-led approach grounded in occupational psychology.
Our process combines the latest psychometric assessments with expert human insight to deliver practical, personalised career guidance.
Whether you’re starting out, seeking progression, or considering a change, we help you discover a path that truly aligns with your personality, strengths, values, and life goals.
Meet Your Career Counsellor
When you sign up for our programme, you’ll be matched with a dedicated, highly qualified Occupational Psychologist, an expert in career development with exceptional academic credentials.
Each of our career counsellors holds:
BSc in Psychology
MSc in Occupational Psychology
This rigorous academic background, combined with real-world experience, ensures your counsellor is equipped to provide nuanced, evidence-based guidance. You’ll receive insights you can trust, and a clear action plan to take your next step with confidence.
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A Personalised, Step-by-Step Process
Our career counselling programme is built around a structured yet highly personalised approach. Every stage is designed to give you clarity, confidence, and a practical roadmap for your future.
Advanced Psychometric Assessment
Pre-Session Analysis
One-to-One Consultation
Bespoke Career Plan
- 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: New Career
Thomas
I had accepted an offer for a BSc but wanted to check what my options would be with (and without) the degree. I am now set on doing the degree and have a much better idea what I can and might want to do with it. I feel much more confident in my mathematical abilities (and skills in general) and have a good idea what I need to work on. The report was detailed and helpful following on from the discussion on the day.
I feel I know what I need to work on with CBT in the future, and I have a better idea of what jobs I would be suited to (and, reassuringly, that there are such jobs…). I found particularly useful the warning about teaching as possibly being particularly stressful for someone like me. Confirmation of my skills and abilities.
- 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: New Career
Cathy
Thanks for emailing the report. I found the day really useful and look forward to reading it.
- Programme: Career Change
You won’t remember me, but I came to visit you at Career Analysts back in 2001. I thought you might be interested in what I have achieved since. You advised me to return to university (I was then 36). Eventually I took your advice following redundancy, and completed a BSc in Geology at Durham, graduating with first class honours. I have just completed my PhD from Bristol University working on volcanoes in the Afar region of Ethiopia – the most extraordinary experience! I am now off to Hawaii for a two-year post-doc looking into the origin of Earth’s water. All of this a far cry from the admin role I had when I came to visit you! I was very skeptical of returning to study was very disbelieving when you told me I was more than capable – you were right I was wrong! Thanks for your help back then.
- Programme: Teenagers
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: 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: Teenagers
Felix
Felix has now made some good choices about his future and we thank you for the advice you have given him.
- Programme: Teenagers
Alexander
Dear Leo,
Good afternoon,
I found my career analysis report from the 7th of September 2000 (I was 17 at the time). I would like to thank Dr Alexis Hallam for such an accurate and insightful assessment. I am now working in wildlife conservation in Asia. Although not consciously, I am pretty sure the results of the Career Report helped build my confidence in pursuing my dreams and putting in the work needed to achieve them. Furthermore, Dr Hallam’s secondary assessment of training as a physical therapist has turned out to be extremely accurate as well, a field for which I have developed a significant interest over the past decade as I have taken up a number of new sports. Thank you again.
Best regards
Alexander
- Programme: Career Change
Charlotte
The career analysts experience was very valuable. Some of the information I already knew but it was good to see how that fitted into my career choice. Some info was surprising too!
- 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: Career Change
Clare
That was great, thanks. Looking forward to the report – really enjoyed my two hours!
- Programme: New Career
Stephen
Hi,
More than 25 years ago, I sought careers advice with your organisation, and following your advice, embarked on a master’s degree at the University of London in Ergonomics, specialising in Human Factors in Human-Computer Interaction, which was the first year it was offered as a specialisation.
I now work at Google/YouTube, where I have been for nearly six years, after 15 years working in various Silicon Valley companies, focusing specifically on Internet products. I often tell my story of how I got started, because those entering my profession now cannot believe that I have been in the field for so long, having experienced so much – I hardly believe it myself.
My career counsellor was Anne Lines, whose name I have not forgotten. She may have retired now, but while I considered her advice with a healthy dose of scepticism at the time, it turned out to be incredibly perceptive.
Best wishes for the new year.
Stephen Wheeler
- 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: Career Change
Dee
I must say it makes a great deal of difference – thank you very much for an enjoyable experience.
- Programme: New Career
Tom
Sorry to miss you on my way out, I just wanted to say thank you so much for everything today, it was really helpful. I look forward to hearing from you with my report but I am not in a rush and I understand if this takes some time.
- 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
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: Teenagers
John
Hello,
I thought you might be interested to hear how your advice worked out for me as a 52 year old Engineer Surveyor of 9 years following a 26 year career in the RAF as a Mechanical Engineer.
I came to you in January 1986 as my father was at his wits end with me about a career and my lack of enthusiasm for studying at school. I saw Melvin R Stockdale and he wrote his recommendations in the Career Advice Report dated 24 Jan 1986.
To be honest, reading this now is slightly unnerving, although how accurate it was as advice is ridiculous!
The line to take away for me is:
“The two main fields which I suggest you look at carefully in order to (a) find out what they involve and (b) to test your own feelings about them: Surveying and Electrical/Mechanical Engineering.”
Like I said that is EXACTLY what I have done and am still doing!
I hope you find this story of your business being absolutely on the money as interesting/funny as I do, I wish my Dad was still here to share this with him. I think I did him proud in the end and all his worry and frustration paid off in the end!
- Programme: Career Change
Jackson
Thanks for your email. I did manage to secure a role in Transport for London in project management. And yes, it was your analytical assessment that prompted me to seek a career in project management.
I am doing well and I am gaining valuable experience in the industry. Additionally, the job comes with its pressures but I thrive in the challenges it throws at me.
Please pass my regards to Sherridan and I will one of these days pay you guys a visit. I will go online and recommend your excellent services, especially to veterans and many who are transitioning from the military to civilian life.
Thanks again and I will hope to hear from you soon.
- Programme: Teenagers
William
Hi Leo and Mary, it was lovely meeting you both on Friday. Thank you for all your help and advice, it was a refreshing change to see William animated and motivated after our meeting. He knows he has a long way to go but he has our support. He visited the local college on Saturday as they had an open day and enquired about IT courses.
- Programme: Career Change
Emma
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: Teenagers
Alan
The other day I stumbled across my assessment feedback from when I visited Career Analysts in 1986! My mum passed away last year and she had kept the papers, which was typical of her organisational skills. I just wanted to let you know that 20 years on the assessment has mirrored reality. It made uncanny reading. I am a Solicitor working in the private sector, I also work as a part time Member of the Parole Board. Some of the comments made in 1986 are as apt today as they were when I was 16!
- 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: 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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is career counselling?
Career counselling is a structured, one-to-one service that helps you gain clarity about your strengths, interests, values, and skills.
Using psychometric assessments and expert analysis, it guides you towards career options that are both fulfilling and achievable, resulting in a personalised action plan tailored to your goals.
Who can benefit from career counselling?
Career counselling is suitable for people at any stage of their working life:
Students choosing A-levels, degrees, or first jobs
Graduates looking for direction or career alignment
Mid-career professionals seeking change or progression
Individuals at a crossroads, returning to work, or exploring a second career
If you’re feeling uncertain, unfulfilled, or simply ready for a change, career counselling can provide the insight and clarity you need.
How do I know if I need career counselling?
You might benefit from career counselling if:
You’re unsure what career direction to take.
You feel stuck or dissatisfied in your current role.
You’ve experienced redundancy or want to re-enter the workforce.
You’re considering a complete change but don’t know where to begin.
You struggle to identify your strengths, passions, or what truly motivates you.
What happens during a career counselling session?
Each session is private and tailored to you. Your counsellor will:
Review your background, goals and aspirations.
Interpret your psychometric test results.
Discuss realistic and fulfilling career options.
Help you assess the pros and cons of each path.
Provide guidance to build a step-by-step plan for moving forward.
How long does career counselling take?
It varies depending on your needs. Many clients gain clarity after just one in-depth session, while others choose to continue with follow-up sessions for ongoing support. You’re in control of how much guidance you receive.
What are psychometric tests, and how are they used?
Psychometric tests are professionally developed tools that assess:
Your personality traits.
Natural abilities and skills.
Core interests and motivations.
Work-related values and preferences.
The results provide a clear, objective picture of the types of careers and environments where you’re most likely to thrive.
Can career counselling help with a mid-life career change?
Yes, very effectively. If you’re considering a change in your 30s, 40s or beyond, career counselling helps you:
Assess your transferable skills.
Clarify your current goals and values.
Explore new industries and roles.
Build confidence to take the next step.
It’s never too late to realign your career with your true strengths and aspirations.
Should I prepare anything before my session?
No formal preparation is required. However, it’s helpful to:
Reflect on what you enjoy (and don’t) in your current or past roles.
Think about what you want from your future career.
Bring your CV or a list of your qualifications and experience.
This helps your counsellor give the most tailored advice.
How much does it cost?
Our tailored career counselling packages start at £695. This includes psychometric testing, expert consultation, and a bespoke written career plan. It’s a one-time investment in your future that can save you years of uncertainty or trial-and-error.