Career Report & Debrief
How I help people exploring career options
Career Report
The Career Report was developed to help individuals in choosing their career direction. The Career Report analyses an individual’s unique skills profile, understands their work values and the type of work they would like to do and creates a report summarising this key information.
The Career Report was developed by Cathy Balfe (owner of Career Coach Me). With a background in economics before retraining as a career coach, she wanted to use technology to gather and analyse key information from a client in advance of the coaching sessions. This enables clients to make more progress during the coaching session, as a lot of the information relevant for career choice is in front of us before we begin the coaching session.
Compared to most career tests that match individuals to potential careers, which try and categorize individuals into a “type”, our approach takes the full profile of skills, values and work type preferences into account. Furthermore, our Career Report gives strong insight into your career interests and motivations, an invaluable tool for clients to refer to during a coaching conversation or when putting their career change action plan into motion.
The Career Report comes up with a list of career suggestions, based on your skills, work type preferences and values. It does not take everything into account (e.g. work or education history). Some clients get inspiration from reading these suggestions, whereas other clients get more insights and inspiration from the exploratory conversation.
Career Report & Debrief Package
What is involved?
- Career Report
- The Career Report analyses your unique skills profile, understands your work values and the type of work you would like to do and creates a report summarising this key information. The Career Report also matches your skills, values, and work type profile across over 900 jobs.
Career Report debrief – 90 minutes
- Findings and implications from the report covered in context of client’s career history and future goals. Ways forward discussed. Retraining / further education discussed if appropriate. Client receives summary of session and action plan after the session.
How does it work?
When booking this service, you schedule a time that suits you for the debrief session. In the confirmation email you will get a link to complete the Career Report test in advance and a link for the video session which you will click at the scheduled time.
The Career Report test takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. You and your coach will receive a copy of your Career Report in advance of the coaching session, typically within the hour of completing the test.
During the debrief session, you and your coach will cover your career history and your goals for the session. Using the Career Report throughout the discussion, you and your coach will establish a clear action plan after the session to help you achieve your career goals. After the session you will receive a summary of what was covered in the session and a copy of the agreed action plan.
How much does it cost?
€190
Students
We offer a discounted rate of €175 for full time secondary students and higher education students. This package will help you to understand your career motivations, and help guide you to make good career decisions for yourself that align with your preferences and priorities. What we do not do: We will not tell you what to do and we are not an encyclopedia of knowledge on all careers and courses. What we will do: We will guide you along a structured path to allow you to make good decisions for yourself, and act as signposts for information resources to help you make your choices. Second level students considering making CAO applications might find this article useful.