All organisations from time to time need expert help guiding and managing the careers of their staff members.  The organisation that ensures that each person is clear about career direction and provides resources to develop current and future career needs, guarantees a workforce of committed and motivated workers.

CAREER DYNAMIC consultants are career change specialists skilled at creatively facilitating career decision-making.  We work with clients to clarify and identify their presenting and underlying career issues and needs.   Client issues may include the need for future planning, skill development, exploring study options, self marketing support, a need for an impartial sounding board, coping with work place stress and burnout, redundancy or restructure and, increasingly, the desire for a better quality of work-life balance. 

CAREER DYNAMIC currently holds the career development service contract for the New Zealand Cricket Players Association and we provide support to many other Players Associations.

ACC Vocational Assessment - our consultants are licensed vocational assessors for ACC and organisations providing IOA and VIOA assessment and career decision making interventions for long term, complex client cases.

We contract a range of customised interventions that could include the following services:

Career Decision Making and Planning:

We have developed a unique and effective career decision making methodology that underpins our practical work with clients.  We facilitate, support and inspire individuals through this process, maximizing creative career thinking and expansion of perceived future options whilst minimizing the risk of inappropriate decisions.  View a visual diagram of this process.

The process has several key stages including:

• Developing clarity and understanding regarding the problems and issues that have prompted the individual to seek support.
• Self-assessment using a range of activities and resources to identify preferences and interests in areas of job elements, work culture, work style and how career should ideally interrelate with rest of life.  
• This is explored alongside a 360˚ marketplace exploration process that suspends reality and encourages the individual to identify the types of roles, industries or ways of working that intuitively interest them.
• This self-exploration data is then synthesized into an integrated word picture that identifies; conclusions and insights, themes, preferred jobs and industries narrowed into specific options.
• This information drives an action plan for the next stage where you take a caerer theme or option and conduct a process of research (gathering information) and reality testing (talking to people in the jobs and industries you have identified).   This process is continued until you clearly identify your preferred direction.

In three to five hours we assist clients to reach career themes and conclusions that will help give them the clarity and insight to identify the best options for transforming their work life.

Curriculum Vitae Preparation:

A professionally presented Curriculum Vitae is an essential adjunct to a career move. The relevant information is extracted during an intensive 1 to 1 interview.  Time required is usually around 1 hour for the interview and 1 hour writing the CV.

Job Search Consultancy:

Many of our clients are clear about their career direction however they require specific assistance to locate their next position.  We support clients to ensure a successful, well-planned and discreet change from their current position.

Outplacement Support:

Employer sponsored individual or group programmes for those who have lost their job through redundancy or who are predicting organisational change.  This programme usually takes place over 3 to 5 sessions (typically 1-1.5 hours each) and may include any or all of the following:

• Career planning and decision making.
• Job search and interview preparation.
• Curriculum Vitae preparation
  

Mentoring or Coaching:

Clients who benefit from this service find it useful to work with an impartial external professional who can act as a sounding board, coach and advocate.  Increasingly, organisations recognise the benefit of referring their key employees whom they wish to retain, promote or develop. 

Work-Life Balance or Retirement Planning:

Employer sponsored individual or group programmes for those whose work lives have got out of kilter and are seeking greater balance and for the aging work force who will be considering partial or total retirement in the future and need assistance to maximise creative thinking and expansion of perceived options.

Human Resource Consultancy:

Our consultants come from human resource backgrounds and are available to provide consulting advice over a wide range of HR issues which include recruiting, performance management, restructures, HR policies and procedures.  Contact us with your specific needs.

Fees: $150 (plus GST) per hour. 

Call us on 09 489 9268 or use our Inquiry Form if you wish to discuss a package rate for your situation.