Career Advisor
Expert Career Guidance Tailored to You
Our professional career advisors are qualified Occupational Psychologists who help you discover the career paths that match your strengths, values, and goals.
Backed by over 60 years of experience, we offer trusted, personalised advice at every stage of your journey.
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Thousands of Happy Customers
Dedicated Career Advisors with 60 Years Experience
Career Advisory Services for Every Stage of Life
Teenagers & School Leavers
Choosing A-Levels, a university course or considering entering the workforce?
Our advisors guide you through your options, helping you understand your abilities and aspirations, so you can make informed, confident choices from the very beginning.
Twenties: Graduates & Young Professionals
Approaching graduation or early in your career and feeling unsure?
We help you gain direction, assess your natural strengths, and explore career options that align with who you are and where you want to go.
Over-Thirties & Mid-Career Professionals
Our advisors support you in reassessing your goals and values, identifying new opportunities, and finding career paths that suit your current lifestyle and ambitions.
Psychometric backed advice & guidance
Career guidance for all ages
One-on-one career advice & support
Why Choose Career Analysts?
Our career advisors stand apart because they are both expert psychologists and career market specialists.
Each advisor holds:
BSc in Psychology
MSc in Occupational Psychology
They understand how to analyse people, careers, and the links between them, giving you advice grounded in both scientific assessment and practical know-how.
We’ve been doing this since the 1960s, and the results speak for themselves. Many of the people we helped decades ago have since returned with their children, and now their grandchildren.
Meet Your Career Advisor
Every client is paired with an experienced career advisor who brings together psychological expertise and career insight.
Our advisors are not generic consultants, they are trained Occupational Psychologists with extensive knowledge of:
Career pathways and professional industries.
The skills and qualifications required for various roles.
How to interpret and apply psychometric testing to real-world decisions.
When you work with us, you’ll gain not just direction, but real confidence in your next step.
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What Our Career Counselling Programmes Include
Our career advisory process is designed to give you more than just guidance, it gives you clarity, confidence, and a personalised plan backed by psychology and real-world career insight.
Here’s what every client receives:
In-Depth Psychometric Assessments
You’ll begin by completing a series of professionally developed online questionnaires. These tests analyse your:
Personality traits
Natural abilities and cognitive strengths
Core interests and motivations
Work values and preferences
This forms the scientific foundation for accurate, tailored career guidance.
Professional Analysis by an Occupational Psychologist
Your assessments are reviewed by a fully qualified Occupational Psychologist. With deep knowledge of the modern job market and human behaviour, your advisor will interpret your profile to identify best-fit career options that align with your strengths and aspirations.
One-to-One Career Consultation
You’ll meet with your advisor in a dedicated session to explore your results and discuss the career paths that suit you best. This is your chance to ask questions, weigh your options, and receive practical, honest advice on how to move forward.
Personalised Career Report
Following your consultation, you’ll receive a detailed written report that includes:
A summary of your psychometric profile
Recommended career paths tailored to your unique attributes
Any relevant training or qualifications to consider
A clear action plan to guide your next steps
This report becomes your personalised roadmap, helping you make informed, confident career decisions now and in the future.
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A Personalised Step-by-Step Career Advisory Process
Our career advisory service is built around a structured, evidence-based process designed to uncover the career path that best fits your unique strengths, goals, and values. Here’s what to expect:
Complete Your Online Assessments
Expert Analysis & Career Research
One-to-One Consultation
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- Programme: New Career
Dominic
I’d like to thank you for going above and beyond your duty in helping me. I will let you know how my situation progresses.
- 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
Sophie
My consultant was v. enthusiastic and understanding. Didn’t apply one formula – she gave me individual attention. The report arrived v. efficiently and was well laid out. The Career Analysts experience – it’s like holding up a mirror to yourself. The consultant gave me a lot of encouragement and really helped me see my strengths.
- 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: New Career
Grace and Jonty
Dear Leo,
Just to say how delighted I have been with the career guidance service that you have offered to Grace and Jonty. Grace has made an application to train as a primary school teacher. The assurance of your analysis was absolutely key to this. Jonty is a year or two further away from the employment market place, but my hope was that you would give him ideas that were novel and out of the box – which you certainly did. Let’s see where he goes, but this experience will have been invaluable whatever happens.
I’ve left a review on Google.
Many thanks once again
Sebastian
- Programme: Career Change
John
“I had a useful broad ranging discussion with the consultant with helpful insights.
- 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: Career Change
Richard
Dear Leo I thought I would drop you a quick note to give you some feedback on my experience with Career Analysts. I was particularly impressed with the Occupational Psychologist. She clearly understood my objectives and did a lot of research to make sure the advice she gave me was specific to my needs. This allowed my time with her to be productive and highly focused on what I wanted to achieve. The Occupational Psychologist’s insight into the specific job role I was looking for, combined with an uncanny ability to access my personality, was truly remarkable.
She helped me build confidence and understand what was driving me in my previous jobs. I constantly try to analyse my job skills and look at how I can improve myself. The Occupational Psychologist took that to a completely different level and within an hour with her it was clear I couldn’t see the wood from the trees. The net result was that within a matter of weeks I was able to secure a job in a completely different industry. I am extremely grateful to the Occupational Psychologist and Career Analysts for helping me understand my vocation and future path. I would not hesitate to recommend your services.
Regards Richard
- 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: 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: 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
Joe
I am pleased to say I now have a job working for the Liberal Democrats which I am really enjoying. Thank you for your advice.
- Programme: New Career
Lisa
Thank you for your email and the attached report. I have now received the hard copy too. It was an interesting day, the tests and the subsequent consultation. I will go through the report and the recommendations and will contact you if I need further clarification or help. In the meantime, please pass on my thanks and gratitude also to Mary for her help, careful advice and her time.
- Programme: New Career
Kate
Dear Leo and Sherridan
You will remember that Kate and I visited Sherridan at her home in February this year. You both asked to be kept informed of her progress.
I am delighted to be able to tell you that Kate secured a job on 19 March!
They are a lovely team and they have said they are so happy to have her, they really like her and she fits in very well. Likewise, she is loving the job, and most importantly it ticks all the boxes for her; ‘people skills, communication, information governance and attention to detail, very little travel cost, etc., etc. They told her at the interview that it’s a ‘job for life’ and so we told her to join the NHS pension scheme! In any event, I am sure that this could lead to other roles within the NHS in the future, if she got itchy feet.
Sometimes the missing piece of the puzzle just clicks into place perfectly. I am ecstatic. It has been so very hard for her, and her Dad and I. Most of all Kate has worked so hard for her achievements and she is conscientious and dedicated and deserves to be so happily employed.
Many thanks for your help and assistance along the way. It was very much appreciated.
Very best wishes to you both.
- 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: Career Change
Good afternoon,
I wonder whether you are the same Sherridan Hughes I saw in June 1993 at Career Analysts at 90 Gloucester Place.
It was a long time ago and I am now 76 years old, but contacting Careers Analysts for an assessment then was most helpful.
After the various tests and the assessment results, I gained the courage to stop being a housewife and have a go at an A level in English with a view to going to university as a mature student.
I subsequently gained a BA Hons) in English at the University of Birmingham, followed by an MA in Book History (Distinction), also at Birmingham, then a PhD in Book History at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; finally I published a book derived from my PhD research in 2016.
Your assessment was absolutely spot on, and I shall always be grateful for your advice.
- Programme: Career Change
Rhian
I just wanted to say thank you so much for the career advice and help I received from you; it has been absolutely invaluable.
As a little update, I am now 8 weeks into an MSc in Occupational & Organisational Psychology (Part-time, distance learning) at University of Northumbria, and am working part time at the events company below too that you found! I approached them even though they didn’t have any suitable vacancies at the time but then they got back to me and have created a part-time position for me!
I am also out of my toxic old job and so much happier.
Thank you so much, it’s absolutely changed my life.
- Programme: Teenagers
Alex
Dear Leo
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.
Many thanks
Ann
- Programme: Career Change
Sarah
My self-awareness was fairly good already. However, Career Analysts affirmed that having my own company is right for me and to continue with this. I have come away feeling more positive about the way I work and more in control.
- 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
Sophie
I just wanted to say thank you to yourself, Sheridan and Leo for the help which you provided to Sophie. It enabled her to find a way through to the next stage and she has applied to study Liberal Arts at university as that does seem to be a good fit for her and something that she will very much enjoy. She’s had a couple of offers through and now just needs to get her grades! I don’t have Sheridan’s or Leo’s email addresses so please pass this message on to them. Thanks again. Michelle.
- 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
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
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: 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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does a career advisor do?
A career advisor helps you understand your strengths, skills, and preferences, and matches these to suitable career paths. At Career Analysts, our advisors are Occupational Psychologists, meaning they combine psychological insight with in-depth knowledge of the job market to provide truly personalised career advice.
How is your service different from general career guidance?
Unlike generic advice or automated tools, our service includes professional psychometric testing, expert interpretation, and one-to-one sessions with a qualified advisor. It’s a scientifically grounded process that leads to a bespoke career plan based on you.
Can a career advisor help me if I already have a job?
Yes. Many of our clients are already in employment but feel unfulfilled, stagnant, or curious about a new direction. We help you identify whether a career change, upskilling, or a different role within your current field would better align with your goals and values.
What qualifications do your career advisors have?
All our career advisors are fully qualified Occupational Psychologists. Each holds at least:
A BSc in Psychology
An MSc in Occupational Psychology
This professional background ensures our advice is based on scientific principles and practical knowledge.
Do I need to prepare anything before my session?
No formal preparation is required. However, it helps to reflect on your work history, what you enjoy or dislike in your current role, and what outcomes you’re hoping to achieve. A copy of your CV can also be useful during the consultation.
Can this service help with a mid-life career change?
Absolutely. Many of our clients are in their 30s, 40s, or 50s and looking for more meaningful work, better balance, or a completely new path. We specialise in helping people evaluate their transferable skills and map out realistic, fulfilling options.
What’s included in the career advisor package?
Our standard programme includes:
Online psychometric assessments.
Expert analysis by a qualified advisor.
A one-to-one consultation.
A detailed, personalised career report.
Advice on any relevant training or qualifications.
We also offer bespoke packages if additional support is required.
Is this service suitable for students or school leavers?
Yes. We work with clients at every stage of their career journey, including teenagers choosing A-levels, university courses, or first jobs. Our assessments help identify early strengths and match them to future career opportunities.
How long does the process take?
The initial process (assessments, analysis, and consultation) typically takes 1–2 weeks. Your written report is delivered shortly after your one-to-one session. Additional support is available if needed.
How much does it cost?
Packages start at £695, which includes the full process: testing, consultation, analysis, and your written career report. It’s a one-time investment in clarity and direction that can shape your future.