Becoming a careers counsellor/advisor?

[SideWinder]

I'm feeling quite lost at the moment and I've had an idea about re-starting my career in something which I feel may be more 'me'.

I really enjoy meeting new people and throughout my career, I have found myself leaning towards helping and guiding. I studied my degree in Psychology for this reason.

Is there a way for me to re-train to become a careers counsellor? Would I even have a chance with a background of 10 years of senior customer service experience?

Any advice would be great, thank you.

 

[MrRockliffe]

My advice would be to do whatever helps you discover your why: https://simonsinek.com/find-your-why/

Find fulfilment and find happiness - it’s never too late

 

[dowie]

My experience of careers guidance people are either teachers at school who have the role as a secondary responsibility or admin types who work in the careers office at universities and coordinate events, pass on opportunities from employers who have reached out to the university etc...

I guess there are also the former recruiters or HR types who run their own business offering paid advice to people - obs these people have prior experience in recruitment or HR.

An organisation like Morrisby presumably employs some people in a sort of career advice-related role, they do psychometric testing and provide suggestions of careers etc... (we all had to do them at the school I went to) but I wonder, given you yourself are not sure what to do perhaps you'd also be suitable as a customer looking for a career change!

https://www.morrisby.com/career-changers

I'm sometimes skeptical of this stuff but maybe sitting a psychometric/aptitude test and having a bunch of career suggestions presented to you on the basis of that could be worthwhile if you're feeling a bit lost.

I mean, unlike some organisations, it doesn't appear to be particularly expensive, just over £100.

 

[HangTime]

^I was sceptical of this sort of thing too, at school we had to answer a bunch of questions and then one of those old dot matrix printers spat out this print out of what jobs would be a good fit. The application was called JIGCAL I think.

At the time, I thought this is complete nonsense. I didn't even recognise what one of the 'best fit' jobs was (Actuary).

Over 15 years later, sorting through some old stuff I stumbled across this faded printout, and found that the line of work I'd somehow found myself in was arguably a hybrid of the top 4 jobs it listed out.

 

[Hades]

Is it only me that can see the irony of a future careers advisor asking for advice on how to change career?

Good luck though

 

[dlockers]

^I was sceptical of this sort of thing too, at school we had to answer a bunch of questions and then one of those old dot matrix printers spat out this print out of what jobs would be a good fit. The application was called JIGCAL I think.

At the time, I thought this is complete nonsense. I didn't even recognise what one of the 'best fit' jobs was (Actuary).

Over 15 years later, sorting through some old stuff I stumbled across this faded printout, and found that the line of work I'd somehow found myself in was arguably a hybrid of the top 4 jobs it listed out.

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