Corporate Programs

Career Spa is a fresh, upbeat provider of career development services for corporate clients.

People who are in the right job are happier, more committed and more productive workers. Career development programs can therefore play a significant role in increasing your staff retention and improving your workplace culture.

Career Spa has a range of programs designed to help your employees make sure they are in the right job. Many people who complete our programs find a “new lease of life” with their current employer, by learning how to refocus their energies and build on their talents. When their working lives are refreshed in this way, everyone wins!

Career development programs can also help employees who are bogged down, and who need a change, by helping them to find the courage to make that change.

Career Spa can develop tailored group and individual programs to offer to your staff. Contact us for an obligation-free consultation, or check out our standard offerings, below.

Career Spa  Renewal
	This is our flagship program – a chance for your most valued employees to take some time out to reflect on, re-assess, and re-orient their working life. The Renewal program is a unique way for you to show that you are supportive of your people’s development and growth. Renewal programs work with small groups of people to examine the role of their work in their life. The program is designed to help people get the balance right – to find their focus and use that to guide their future working life. The Renewal program will help your best and brightest employees to refresh and rejuvenate their working lives, so that they return to you with renewed vigour and enthusiasm.
	The first part of Renewal is a two-day residential program (usually held over a Friday and Saturday) – to give participants a chance to take some time out. Our group sizes for this program are limited to no more than six people per consultant, to ensure each person’s needs don’t get lost in a crowd. The two day program focusses on participants’ identity as a worker – getting at the heart of why they work, and how their work can (or does) contribute to their life. We also look at participants’ talents and abilities, and discuss possibilities for creating a working life that uses both to enhance the reward and satisfaction they get from their work. During and after the residential program, each participants has some one-on-one time with a consultant, to discuss their unique situation and needs. Renewal program participants also have ongoing access to the Career Spa Community: an online space where they can share tips, news and advice with other Career Spa Community members throughout their working life.

Career Spa  Brand New Me
	If your employees need to update the way they market themselves, then this program is for you. We take “self-marketing” to a whole new level, and tackle questions like: Have you worked out what your target market is looking for? What is it about you that employers most need to see? How do you make sure you shine in everything you do and say when you are applying for jobs? The Brand New Me program will help your staff create a fresh new look for their self-marketing efforts.
	Brand New Me starts with a group seminar, where participants learn some simple principles for positioning themselves. We use branding principles to help them create a unique picture of their talents and qualities. Each participant then has up to 3 hours of individual assistance and advice from a consultant, before returning to another group session, where they can see – and learn from – what everyone else has done to change they way they present themselves.

Career Spa  Individual Services
	We provide a range of services for individuals, including: career development coaching or counselling career transition support and counselling exploration of career options, and career decision making coaching in self-marketing, including job search, resume preparation, job application and interview preparation Our one-on-one work with your employees is highly personalised and completely confidential. We can deliver our services at your premises or at other venues, as negotiated.

How we work

Our approach to career development encompasses contemporary Australian theories and practices, including storying, My System of Career Influences1 and Chaos Theory of Careers2. Our emphasis is on CRAFTING a career, rather than managing it. We work with people to help them understand the factors that influence their working lives, and develop resilience in the face of the constant uncertainty that is part of organisational life.

A central part of our work is to focus on the relationship between our work and our identity.  We use metaphor and story telling to help individuals discover the way they perceive themselves as workers, and how that affects their career development. Our work is aimed at helping people create a future working life story that is positive, and that acknowledges both the realities of the context in which they operate, and the inner strengths and qualities they may not previously have recognised.

Rather than setting fixed goals and drawing up prescriptive plans, we encourage our clients to explore possibilities and develop hypothetical futures, and emphasise the importance of remaining open to unexpected opportunities.

Our work on self-marketing is also contemporary in focus. We draw upon our extensive experience of the recruitment and selection process (particularly in the public sector) to help individuals understand how the process works, and what the expectations are.

We then encourage individuals to develop their own “brand” – a presentation of self that reflects not just their experience and abilities, but also their qualities and values. This approach carries them through both written presentation tasks (resumes and job applications) and live presentations at interviews and other selection processes.

References:

1	Patton, W. and McMahon, M. (2006). The Systems Theory Framework of Career Development and Counseling: Connecting Theory and Practice. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling 28(2): pp 153-166.
2	Pryor, R.G.L. and Bright, J.E.H. Order and Chaos: A Twenty-First Century Formulation of Careers. (recently published in the Australian Journal of Psychology – reference unavailable)

 

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Contact us

Phone/Fax: 1300 656 264
Email: info@careerspa.com.au

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