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What is a Career Guidance Session?

A career guidance session is a virtual 1-2-1 discussion which allows you to talk about your next steps and career aspirations with a qualified, independent careers adviser.

Your adviser will help you towards achieving your desired career goals, acting as a guide, and leading and setting up a course of action. Sessions are delivered by ACC partner, Positive Steps, and last up to 45 minutes.

Sessions are available if:

'Career guidance supports you to access work, education or training opportunities that provide access to a source of income, social contact, purposeful activity and healthy challenges.'

Empowering YOU!

Career guidance helps you to:

All of these elements can help to promote your well-being. There is good evidence that career guidance has a positive effect on mental health.

'Career guidance increases social mobility. How do you move up the social ladder if you don't know what the rungs look like.'

Benefiting YOU!

A career guidance session can have many benefits. Here are some of them:

'Everybody needs a guide. Whatever your options, a guide will navigate you through the choices and challenges you face along the way.'

Your Session

Your personal careers guidance will be provided by Positive Steps, an independent charitable trust. It will be a structured career conversation between you and a careers professional.

Your session will be a virtual 1-2-1 discussion lasting around 45 minutes. This will be done via Meets on a computer or mobile, so make sure you are in a quiet space with good internet access.

Your adviser will be a professionally qualified Level 6 Career Adviser.

The output of your session will be an individual Progression Plan for you to take away.

'Career guidance helps people manage their life, learning and work. People’s careers develop over their lives, so they need lifelong access to career guidance.'

Booking your session

Arrange a 1-2-1 meeting with your Course Leader or Learning Support Manager to go through the process and make sure you are happy with everything.

To book a session you will need to select an available date and your Course Leader or Learning Support Manager will inform the Careers Adviser of the reason for the booking with any relevant background information.

'The evidence shows that career guidance can have substantial benefits for the economy by supporting individuals to enhance their capacities in ways that contribute to enhanced jobs, skills and growth.'

Who are Positive Steps?

Positive Steps work in schools, colleges and training establishments providing careers information, advice and guidance to help young people make well-informed and realistic decisions about their career pathways. 


'It helps you identify factors influencing your career development and helps you assess your interests, abilities, and values.'

After your session

Pick up any actions with your Course Leaderor Learning Support Manager via a 1-2-1 Review or in Course Progress.

We may decide that you need another career guidance session in which case this can be arranged.

We want you to review your experience of your career guidance session via the form below.

'A career adviser offers unbiased insights, information, expertise and advice, thus enabling you to figure out who you are and what you want from your career.'

NCS Careers Advice

The National Careers Service provides careers information, advice and guidance. They can help you to make decisions on learning, training and work at all stages in your career.

Wherever you are in your decision-making, you can call and speak to a Careers Adviser on 0800 100 900 or use webchat.













Planning your future!