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Karen Rudd After graduating with a degree in Marine Biology Karen Rudd was keen to get a job related to her course. After a number of unsuccessful applications she turned to the CV evaluation service at Prospects Professional for help. 'When the email about Prospects Professional dropped into my inbox I decided to give it a go. It was the first time I had used professional careers guidance of this sort and I was looking for a more specific CV, one which would be tailored towards the positions I was interested in.' 'The service was very easy to use. I sent off my CV and some background information which included the types of jobs and areas of work that I was interested in. The more information I provided the better the feedback I got. I was quite specific about the type of jobs I was applying for and I let them take it from there.' Within three days Karen received a critique of her CV from the careers consultants at Prospects Professional and was able to start work on making some improvements. ‘I found the feedback I received very helpful. It definitely helps to get an outside opinion. There is a tendency to think “I’ve done it all before, I should know how it’s done”, but by putting your CV in the hands of someone else you can get some really good advice.' The evaluation Karen received from the specialist careers consultant at Prospects Professional helped her to restructure her CV and make the most of the variety of experience and transferable skills she had to offer as a mature student. ‘The CV evaluation has really improved the layout of my CV. The advisor suggested I tailor my CV around the experience I gained at university and in my previous career. When I put it all together it looked really good and off the back of the evaluation I got the job I was looking for! ‘Using Prospects Professional made the difference. This was one of the first positions I applied for following the CV evaluation and I got the job. I would thoroughly recommend the service to other graduates.’ Gary Marston After working for the British Council for a number of years Gary Marston decided to make a career change. Keen to make the right decision, he contacted the experts at Prospects Professional for advice on planning the next step. ‘A friend was also going through a career change and he recommended looking at the Prospects website. From there I signed up to the digital magazine which was where I found out about Prospects Professional.' ‘I had used another career coaching service on the internet about six months earlier and I had also interviewed a few people about their jobs but I was looking for more help to generate some ideas for possible careers.’ Eager to explore the options available to him, Gary opted for an online consultation with a careers consultant at Prospects Professional. ‘I was keen to put my ideas and my experience together and come up with a path that I might take. I wanted to know what was out there and needed somebody to help me to make sure that I wasn’t overlooking career paths that I should perhaps investigate.’ Following on from the advice he received online Gary went on to take a personality and motivations assessment followed by 121 telephone consultation with a Prospects Professional consultant. ‘The one-to-one consultation I received following the personality assessments was informative and thorough. The advice was helpful and it did bring up a few things I hadn’t thought of and give me some ideas to work on.’ Having some outside help also helped Gary to gain a clearer picture of the different careers available to him. ‘When you are between jobs or looking at a career change I think your mind wanders from one thing to another and sometimes you can get a kind of skew-whiff way of thinking about different roles.' ‘The one-to-one consultation is useful because it explores those thoughts and makes things a little bit more concrete especially if the person that you are speaking to is knowledgeable about careers and different avenues you can go down. I would recommend the consultation to other people. It really does clarify your thoughts and can save you a lot of time in your job hunt.’ To purchase you will be required to login or register with My Prospects.   |
