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: New Career
Josh
Dear Career Analysts, I wanted to let you know how I got on following your help in August 2014.
Firstly, it was incredibly helpful to have your perspective and advice at what was a really difficult time for me. As a result of your suggestions, I applied for Master’s courses in Operational Research and, notwithstanding my 3rd class degree, was offered a place at Southampton.
I spent the academic year 2014-15 in Southampton and have just received confirmation of my result which was a Distinction (average over 70%).
The course was much more varied than I was used to and involved the development of skills such as team work and presentations which I had not previously encountered at Cambridge. I really enjoyed the course which concluded with a two month work placement at the University of Augsburg in Germany working on a project for Allianz insurance and the completion of a report.
I submitted my report at the end of September and began applying for jobs. I have just started work in Operational Research for a major travel business.
In the summer of 2015 Cambridge agreed to upgrade my degree to a 2:2.
I wanted to let you know how I got on and to thank you for all your help and advice which has made such a difference to my situation over the last year or so.
- Programme: New Career
Suzanne
The Occupational Psychologist showed me lots of interesting websites and all the kinds of jobs I could do.
- 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: Teenagers
Alex
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
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: 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
Harry
Generally this was an excellent day! The Occupational Psychologist was a very intelligent, confident, interesting person. I really enjoyed our conversation.
- Programme: Career Change
Christopher
The Occupational Psychologist had obviously got me down to a tee!
- 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: 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: 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
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
Felix
Felix has now made some good choices about his future and we thank you for the advice you have given him.
- 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: 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
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: New Career
Cathy
Thanks for emailing the report. I found the day really useful and look forward to reading it.
- Programme: New Career
Phil
I wanted to thank you for your insightful advice when we met. I’ve just completed the certificate course in Hypnotherapy and am starting the diploma in a couple of weeks! It’s fascinating and I am positively hooked. About a year from now I shall be qualified and hopefully starting up my own practice! Thanks again for your advice and time. Will keep you posted!
- Programme: Teenagers
Jaime
By far the most valuable and revealing aspect of the whole experience was the personal consultancy. The occupational psychologist was simply masterful in her exploration and understanding my mind, far more so than I am myself. The careers that she was describing, and the way she was describing them, sounded exactly like the type of work I would like to be involved in later on in life.
- Programme: Teenagers
Rory
High quality service offered, both in terms of consultation and psychometric assessments used for guidance. Felt understood and cared about throughout the whole process, and they went above and beyond in accommodating any questions or concerns I had going in.
- 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
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: 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
Pippa
Hi Leo, Many thanks for the report, it’s been really helpful. Thanks.
- 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).
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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.