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: 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: 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: 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: 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: New Career
Suzanne
The Occupational Psychologist showed me lots of interesting websites and all the kinds of jobs I could do.
- 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
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
Nicola
Several comments really rang true. I had thought counselling might suit me, but she advised against it and when I mentioned this to close family they agreed with the Career Analyst.
- Programme: Career Change
Clare
That was great, thanks. Looking forward to the report – really enjoyed my two hours!
- 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
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: 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
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: 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: 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
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
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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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 🙂
- 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.
- 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
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.
Real Careers Advice. Real Results.
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.
Ready to Find the Career That’s Right for You?
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.