What We Bring — find next steps you’re confident about
Use when
Someone has lost confidence and is struggling to know what they bring to an organisation, choose a direction or engage confidently with the practical support already available.
They’ll take micro-actions to evidence their value, receive feedback, and work on one relevant real world action.
Purpose
To help people in transitions find a meaningful direction they have confidence in. It combines targeted 1:1 guidance, game-based learning, storytelling experiences, and accessible tools to capture needs, goals and chosen actions towards employability.
Your team gains a more detailed picture of what each person wants, what may be getting in the way and what support or next steps would be useful.
A different format may work better when group interaction, noise, movement or shared activities would make participation inaccessible, or the person needs substantial individual communication or literacy support. A 1:1 version can be used where appropriate.
Targeted 1:1 career guidance & coaching
Use when
A person is stuck, has complex or intersecting circumstances, or needs more depth and privacy than a group or more consistency than a mentor appointment can provide.
This includes materials and tasks for between appointments, e-contact for questions, and review of materials outside of coaching sessions.
Purpose
Support people to establish goals and overcome barriers to action towards employment, education or training — by finding the common thread in their choices so far, choosing a direction, telling their story effectively and strengthening self-belief, hope and agency.
Sessions can focus on finding direction, mock interviews, job or course search, goal setting, reasonable adjustments, prioritising tasks, handling tricky issues with employers, and more.
Particularly useful for targeted in-depth support, peak periods, disability or additional needs, criminal records, literacy challenges, chronic health conditions, sensitive circumstances, intersectionality, or cases where standard support has not been enough.
Reasonable adjustments toolkit
Use when
Someone has a disability, neurodivergence or chronic or fluctuating health condition and needs to understand or communicate disability-related adjustments and strengths.
Purpose
Create a personal toolkit explaining needs to prospective employers, volunteering organisations or educators at different stages of the journey to work. Participants explore useful adjustments, the choice of whether and when to disclose, and how to communicate what enables them to perform well.
Does not replace medical advice, occupational-health assessment, Access to Work assessment or legal advice.
Action learning groups
Use when
Several people are interested in the same sector or pathway and are ready to explore opportunities and take action together.
E.g. jobs in retail, hospitality, or exploring higher education
Purpose
A group coaching process that supports people to use their agency to explore local employers, find hidden opportunities and take action together towards their goals. Local employers can join sessions to break down barriers, answer questions and challenge misconceptions.
A different format may work better when someone still has no clear direction to explore. What We Bring or 1:1 guidance is usually a better starting point.
Resilience circles
Use when
Someone needs to learn about and practise emotional wellbeing because setbacks, uncertainty or difficult transitions are affecting progress towards work.
Purpose
Reduce shame and isolation around difficult transitions, normalise experiences many people share, and practise ways to manage difficult emotions without getting into personal stories. It’s focused on noticing emotions and what they signal is needed to restore mindfulness.
Not suitable for someone who currently needs crisis support, counselling or specialist mental-health treatment rather than a career-development intervention.
Find & pitch your business idea
Use when
Someone is considering self-employment or a startup but needs to clarify the business idea and whether it is a viable route before moving into specialist enterprise support.
Purpose
Support participants to find a business idea, build a one-page business plan, validate it, explore routes to market, and learn how to engage with relevant business support services and funding sources in your area.
Not designed for established businesses or those needing specialist IP, tax, legal, accounting or advanced growth advice.
Skills-based CVs
Use when
Someone has limited volunteering or paid work experience and a traditional chronological CV would miss useful skills gained through wider life roles.
Purpose
Explore skills through the career rainbow of life roles and storytelling to uncover evidence from across the person’s life and produce an outline CV by the end of the session — helping them stand out for entry-level jobs.
A different format may work better when literacy or communication needs would make CV development in a group inaccessible. Targeted 1:1 support may be more suitable.
Graduate & professional CVs
Use when
A graduate, returner or experienced professional is seeking higher-skilled work but their strongest evidence is being overlooked, buried or poorly targeted. They may have made several applications but not yet researched interview and are wondering why.
Purpose
A degree can be reduced to a single line under qualifications; years of professional experience can create the opposite problem and swamp what matters. This workshop helps participants recognise the evidence employers need to see and make it visible when seeking higher-skilled work.
Independent service & programme reviews
Use when
Your team wants an independent, evidence-informed view of an existing programme, participant journey or wider careers and employability service.
Purpose
Review what is working, where people may be falling through gaps, and what could improve participant experience and outcomes. Reviews can look at inclusion and accessibility, programme design, career-development quality, referral pathways, evaluation, partnerships and alignment with strategy or professional standards.