Free Career Support for Unemployed Professionals


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The Job search Support Service for Newly Unemployed Professionals, is targeted principally at professional or executive jobseekers in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) who have become unemployed after a period of long term employment.

This support service is funded by DWP.  Eligible customers will have little or no experience of current job search channels but will have the confidence and motivation to seek work independently. 

The aim of the programme is to give customers with professional and executive occupational backgrounds, the knowledge and skills to enable them to identify and secure relevant jobs using up-to-date job search techniques and to exploit diverse recruitment channels.

Our Career Coaching and Work Placement Service - Figuring Out - can offer eligible individuals a FREE package of support in the following areas:-

  • Take a Personal Stock take: We can help you reflect and review your career ambitions in line with current market opportunities. We can help you assess your capabilities and identifiy transferable and marketable skills.
  • Rebrand Yourself: We can help you establish your confidence for interviews, by helping you develop your new personal sales pitch and reflecting on your past achievements to help gather an evidence base to demonstrate suitability for specific jobs opportunities.
  • Create a Plan of Action: To create a plan of action to understand a new labour market, exploring how skills and experience can be applied to new jobs and support identification of job goals.
  • Source Suitable Work Experience: We can help source suitable work experience and placements for you to either try out a new skill or industry sector, to help you get a foot in the door, and/or to build a new track record for your CV.
  • Understand Employers Recruitment Practices: We can help you understand the various selection techniques, (for example assessment centres, information on psychometric testing etc);
  •  Improve your Job Applications: We will help you prepare your applications, to refine your brand and equip you to make an impact and be effective in multiple formats including advice on: developing electronic CV, making the best use of internet based recruitment channels, using e-mail to send speculative letters, completing electronic application forms, telephone techniques, obtaining and using references from previous employers;
  • Improve your Interview Techniques: We can give you guidance on how to research employers to help you develop awareness of their business and goals; considering how to present personal experience as evidence of capability; preparing for, practicing, and performing successfully in an interview.

 

Wantto know more?

To find out more about this free career support package, please email us your contact details and one of our coaches will give you a call to discuss your interests in further detail. Email - enquiries@figuringout.co.uk

 

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