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Since the creation of the single European Market in 1992, Careers Europe has been the UK National Resource Centre for International Careers Information, providing resources to Careers services, Connexions services and other information and advisory services throughout the UK. Careers Europe operates as the UK Euroguidance Centre within a network of such centres across the European Union, promoting the European dimension in guidance and mobility in Europe and other popular destinations for purposes of study, training and work, providing a comprehensive careers information and research service for all UK guidance practitioners.
Careers Europe has developed a range of products, resources and services to support careers guidance and careers education. These include: information materials, curriculum support materials, help and advice, as well as training and presentations.
Careers Europe
72-74 Godwin Street, Bradford, BD1 3PT
Tel: 01274 829611 F: 01274 829610
Email: Leila.Shkodra@careerseurope.co.uk
Website: www.careerseurope.co.uk
CASCAiD Adult Directions is inspiring more futures than ever before, bringing the leading careers guidance tool to a wider audience via integrated accessibility.
Available exclusively online, the latest version continues to offer personalised career suggestions based on interests, occupational level and skills, whilst easy integration with screen readers and speech browsers provides access to those clients who utilise support tools. This additional functionality further supports guidance professionals to deliver high quality guidance to their clients.
In addition to Adult Directions, CASCAiD Careerscape allows clients to explore career options and training and education routes including Higher Education.
And to support those who are considering a career change or looking for a job, MyJobsMatch inspires users to identify their next career, delivers suitable job vacancies and allows users to manage every aspect of each job application they make.
To find out more about how CASCAiD can help you to deliver effective guidance and career support visit our stand at NAEGA or go to www.cascaid.co.uk.
Cascaid
2 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough Park, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF
Tel: 01509 226868 Fax: 01509 226869
Email: jasonowen@cascaid.co.uk
Website:www.cascaid.co.uk
CFE is an independent not for profit company, working to improve social and economic prosperity across the UK. We provide research, policy development and project management services to policymakers and practitioners responsible for delivering the employment and skills agenda. Customers have included: Central Government Departments; the Learning and Skills Council; Regional Development Agencies; Lifelong Learning Networks; the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council; and Slough Borough Council.
Recent work includes: identifying the current provision of IAG in libraries in the North East and recommending how the sector can play a key role in the aacs; providing consultancy support to the ‘Slough Working Better’ advancement network prototype; and an evaluation of an employment support programme funded by the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund on behalf of Norfolk Guidance Service.
CFE
Phoenix Yard, Upper Brown Street, Leicester, LE1 5TE
Tel: 0116 229 3300 Fax: 0116 255 3011
Email: Elizabeth.Davies@cfe.org.uk
website www.cfe.org.uk.
Ethitec’s MIStral system is the new client-focussed web based solution for managing Information Advice and Guidance service provision. Developed in close partnership with Leicestershire’s nextstep service, MIStral is designed to be the most flexible solution ever developed for this sector.
Ethitec
37 Millstone Lane, Leicester, LE1 5JN
Tel: 0116 2470806
Email: sales@ethitec.com
Website: www.ethitec.com/mistral/
The National Skills Academy for Hospitality was established to address the key skills and training challenges facing the sector and to ensure it has a skilled and motivated workforce that can deliver world class service and meet the future demands of this dynamic industry.
Our mission is to develop a brand trusted by employers, learners, parents and carers which is the benchmark for excellence in hospitality training and which future proofs both the individual and the industry
We are committed to leveraging both new and existing assets through our world class learning and development programmes to move people and organizations to peak performance.
Hospitality Skills Academy
BHA, Queens House, 55-56, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BH
Email: lindsay.campbell@hospitalityskillsacademy.co.uk
Website: www.hospitalityskillsacademy.co.uk
The Learner Support Directorate, part of the Learning and Skills Council, provides financial support to learners, both young people and adults, where finance acts as a barrier to participation in learning. This support can cover the costs associated with learning, for example books, equipment, travel and childcare. Support for adults includes the schemes Adult Learning Grant, Free Childcare for Training and Learning for Work and Professional and Career Development Loans. You can find out more information on all of our schemes, including details of marketing materials that are available, from our website: www.lsc.gov.uk/providers/moneytolearn
Learning and Skills Council
Learner Support, The Straddle, Victoria Quays, Sheffield S2 5SY
Tel: 01142 074507
Email: learnersupportupdate@lsc.gov.uk
Website: www.lsc.gov.uk
Lifelong Learning UK is the Sector Skills Council responsible for the professional development of all those working in career guidance; community learning and development; further education; higher education; libraries, archives and information services; and work based learning.
In partnership with employers across the UK, Lifelong Learning UK works with the sector to develop and improve the skills of its workforce. Our mission is to ensure that lifelong learning employers can recruit, retain and develop highly skilled and effective staff, capable of bringing out the best in their learners.
Lifelong Learning UK is working to produce a strategy for the development of the career guidance workforce across the UK (excluding providers of services to young people in England who are represented by the Children’s Workforce Development Council). The career guidance workforce includes practitioners working for specialist career guidance organisations and those working in other settings such as universities, colleges, community learning and the private and voluntary sectors.
This strategy will be developed in consultation with the sector to identify key priorities for the professional development of the career guidance workforce. Given the complexity of the sector a key task will be the development of a qualifications strategy, informed by National Occupational Standards, for organisations delivering specialist career guidance services and network partners.
Lifelong Learning UK
5th Floor, St Andrew's House, 18-20 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AY
Tel: 0870 757 7890 Fax: 0870 757 7889
Email: patriciapugh@lluk.org
Website: www.lluk.org
The Morrisby Organisation supplies and develops psychometric test systems and services for use by careers advisers, guidance professionals and HR specialists.
The Morrisby Profile: an integrated set of tests that assess aptitude and word based personality, usually used in conjunction with our careers interests’ questionnaire to produce the personal Guidance Report.
Course Finder: helps those looking for higher education courses. A costed paper-based questionnaire is used to produce expert analysis and a comprehensive report; a quick non-report version is available at www.ukcoursefinder.com.
Prefinio: our newest online careers education programme; Fast Tomato: our student centred, web-based careers guidance and advice system.
The Morrisby Organisation
Focus 31 North, Cleveland Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 7EY
Tel: 01442 215521 Fax: 01442 240531
Email: info@morrisby.co.uk
Website: www.morrisby.com
The Rickter Company was formed to develop the Rickter Scale®, a unique motivational, multi-sensory assessment and action planning process, designed specifically to measure softer indicators and distance travelled. Over 16,000 practitioners have now been trained and licensed as Rickter Scale® Practitioners in the UK, Europe, North America and Australasia.
We have adapted this process for hundreds of different applications from careers guidance and employability to all aspects of social inclusion, from evaluating the effectiveness of service provision to offering alternatives to performance management. And with our new Impact-Online impact measurement system, we can offer you aggregation, analysis and reports on your Rickter interviews from multiple worksites, all to your own specification.
The Rickter Company Ltd
10 View Place, Inverness, IV2 4SA
Tel: 01463 717177 Fax: 01463 718965
Email: heather@rickterscale.com
Website: www.rickterscale.com
The VT Group is one of the UK's leading providers of careers education materials and online guidance programs, related software and resources. Our products are used extensively across the UK to help support clients (adults and young people), of varying abilities, whether in education or training or trying to return to sustainable employment.
VT Group
First Floor, 24 West Street, Fareham, Hampshire PO16 0LF
Tel: +44 (0) 1329 229152 Fax: +44 (0) 1329 229159
Email: Andre.Wilkin@vtplc.com
Website: www.vtlifeskills.co.uk
For further information email: naega@emmm.co.uk