Education, Training and Career Consult - Make The Right Move

ETC Consult’s Career Guidance Programme is for you if you are 16 or upwards and need professional, comprehensive, valid advice on which career to pursue in life and how to pursue it.

It is presented in four stages.

In stage one you complete a number of exercises in a relaxed, non-threatening, supportive manner in our building.

It consists of:

1. One Occupational Interests Questionnaire
2. Six Aptitude Exercises
3. One Personality Questionnaire
4. One Biographical Data Sheet on your educational, work, leisure-time background.

In stage two you return – some days later – for a discussion based on three charts that are generated from the exercises you completed in stage one and on your Biographical Data Sheet.

In stage three ETC Consult writes and sends you a comprehensive Career Guidance Report recapping the entire process and ending with a list of five to eight careers to which we feel you should give very careful consideration by virtue of your Interests, Aptitudes, Personality, background and evolving careers market.

It goes further and - if you are going to college – gives a list of CAO Level 8 and a list of CAO Level 6/7 Third Level Courses that lead directly or indirectly into those careers.

If you are not going to college it gives guidance on the alternative routes to careers and how to get into them by starting at the bottom, at an intermediate or advanced stage with specific organisations; starting an Apprenticeship; doing a Post Leaving Certificate or FETAC Course; starting a business; going to night school; doing an MBA or whatever is the optimal approach.

In Stage Four you study your report; discuss it with whomever and then you either “bite the bullet” and go for option 1,2 3 or whichever in our final recommended list or – if you have any queries on any part of the report - you revert to us in person, by telephone, e.mail or whatever for clarification and then you make your final decision.

Three or four years later you may get an e.mail from us asking you for feedback on the programme and how you are doing.

We do this continuously for quality control and customer satisfaction purposes.