Career Development Professional (Level 6) Apprenticeship
This unique programme offers a long-term ‘built-in’ solution to the provision of career guidance whilst providing participants with the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to be a successful careers adviser.
Designed by careers and education professionals, this holistic approach enables:
This course is suitable for Careers Leaders, Careers Coordinators, wider careers team members, including work experience coordinators and Apprenticeship Co-ordinators in industry.
Careers Information and Advice – level 4 – to enable you to operate as a gateway to independent careers guidance. The course addresses the boundaries between career advice and career guidance in terms of skills, impartiality and role. This course supports a triage approach to advice and guidance working alongside a level 6/7 Careers Guidance Practitioner to ensure resources are used appropriately. For more information contact alison.bonnell@cmplete-careers.com
Level 4 Complete-Careers Certificate
Accredited training
Complete-Careers can help you to achieve the careers courses, qualifications and continuous professional development needed to help improve your career development service offer and your services to learners and or client groups.
We are a Registered Centre for Gateway Qualifications and can provide a range of courses.
Example courses include:
Employability from Entry level 3 through to level 2 – help you or your clients/leaners improve basic employability skills choosing a range of units from careers planning, CV building, work experience through to self- development.
Careers Information, Advice or Guidance level 2 – to provide a basic level of understanding of how careers information, advice and guidance works in principle and how it should be managed effectively.
Careers Information, Advice or Guidance level 3 – to enable you to operate as a gateway to independent advice and guidance. The course addresses the boundaries between career advice and career guidance in terms of skills, impartiality and role. This course supports a triage approach to advice and guidance working alongside a level 6/7 Careers Guidance Practitioner to ensure resources are used appropriately. For more information about how level 3 training can support you with the management of guidance in your setting look at the following link Personal Guidance Through a ‘Triage’ Approach.
Level 4 Education and Business Partnership award – effective education and employer partnerships are essential to ensure learners experience a smooth transition from school/college through to employment. This partnership can only be facilitated effectively if both parties have a good understanding of one another. This qualification is flexible, providing help and support to learn more about the complexities and challenges of either education or employment (or both), blended with an understanding of career development principles.
Level 6 Careers Leader qualification – We work in partnership with the Futures Group to deliver 3 unit accreditation of the OCR level 6 Career Leadership Programme. The course is aimed at anyone leading a career development programme in a learning environment. For more information please see Level 6 Apprenticeship tab.
Biannually, we run a free on-line conference at Complete Careers, where we focus on themes at the heart of the careers sector.
Our Upcoming Conference
‘Resourcing Career Development – Equality or Equity’ – 9th June 2026
Previous Conferences
‘Ten Years: Reflecting on the past to learn and shape the future’ – 26th November 2025
‘Navigating the Future: Understanding the new statutory guidance for schools and colleges’ – 13th May 2025
‘Education is Careers Education’ – 20th November 2024
‘Outstanding Careers Provision: Managing the Cost’ – 11th October 2023
‘Work readiness – may the force be with your learners’ – 4th May 2023
‘Careers Leadership – Raising the Quality Assurance Bar’ – 12th October 2022
‘Building Resilience to Maximise Careers Guidance’ – 28th April 2022
‘Introducing the ‘tripod approach’ to provide stability for your careers programme’ – 13th October 2021
‘To Infinity and Beyond!’ – 22nd April 2021
‘Evidencing the Intent, Implementation and Impact of your Careers Programme’ – 14th October 2020
‘Everywhere is a workplace’ – 13th November 2024
‘Daring Dreams for Little Learners’ – 14th November 2023
‘Introducing Career Related Learning in Primary Schools’ – 15th November 2022
Other Services
Ofsted-ready audits are available to assess your current provision against the requirements set out by Ofsted and the Statutory Guidance for Careers Guidance. Bespoke consultancy can be facilitated for specific support such as writing a careers policy or planning a careers event in your organisation.
Get the external recognition for your careers provision. We can offer you support to work towards the Quality in Careers standard/report and prepare you for assessment via a mock assessment service. For more information please visit the Career Mark section of the website.
Qualitative evaluation sessions to gather feedback from your learners about their perceptions of the careers support available, from independent and impartial facilitators.
A range of courses (accredited and non-accredited) to enhance your CEIAG provision, as well as providing tailor made training to meet your needs. Popular course topics include accredited career courses at Levels 3 and 4, Preparation for Ofsted, Embedding Social Media in Careers Programmes and an Introduction to Careers Work in Schools. See our CPD brochure for a full list of current courses.
Connecting the careers community to present you with regular e-newsletters to keep you informed of developments and best practice and inviting you to network at our annual Guidance Conference. If you are not already on our mailing list please email us at enquiries@complete-careers-com.sites.stackstaging.com to receive termly updates on local and national career developments.
provide specific support to help individual managers and staff identify goals and achieve them in relation to CEIAG and other areas.
Provide careers guidance appointments for your learners with a trained career specialist. Our team can offer you access to a career professional qualified to level 6 and 7 (post graduate and masters level). This service can help your learners identify their career aims, or talk through their existing plans in more depth.
We can provide specific support to help individual learners identify goals and achieve them helping their personal development and career management.
We can help groups of learners to understand more about themselves and suitable career pathways using comprehensive profiling tools. Please see contact us at enquiries@complete-careers-com.sites.stackstaging.com to find out more information about our standard and advanced psychometric packages.
Direct delivery to learners to help them on topics such as utilising social media to advance their career, employability skills, developing peer mentoring skills and career management awareness.
Lincolnshire’s Complete-Careers team provides parents/carers an offer to help your children develop their career potential and move successfully through education into employment. See below for some of the services we can provide as support, or contact us on enquiries@complete-careers.com to arrange a bespoke package.
Arrange a careers guidance appointment for your child with a trained
career specialists. Our team can offer you access to a career professional qualified to level 6 and 7 (post graduate and masters level). This service can help your child identify what they want to do or talk through their existing plans in more depth. This service costs £49.50 and lasts up to an hour. The guidance appointment can be made available face-to-face, over the telephone or via a webchat such as Skype or Facetime.
These can help individuals to identify goals, overcome barriers and reach their full potential. One to one sessions over an agreed period with a qualified coach/mentor can help individuals gain self-esteem and motivation. Individual support available from £25 per hour.
We can help individuals to understand more about themselves and suitable career pathways using comprehensive profiling tools made available in standard and advanced packages. The standard service costs just £25 and is suitable for adults and young people aged 14 plus. You will receive a detailed multiple choice questionnaire for your child to complete. Following this you will be presented with a profile of your child, along with a list of possible suitable career pathways.
The Advanced service will involve a full psychometric profile of your child’s career capabilities lasting up to 3 hours, in a group environment at a Lincolnshire venue. The assessment costs £85 and includes receipt of a comprehensive booklet of your child’s profile, suggested career areas that link to the profile and a full guidance interview to present the findings to you and your child.
Click here for more information about the psychometric packages available.
Rarely do you get a second chance to make a first impression, so give your child every chance to make the right first impression. The traditional CV is still widely used, but many youngsters do not give it the attention it deserves and waste both their time as well as the employer’s. In addition, some employers now prefer an e: portfolio to create more of a holistic picture of an applicant, as well as their ICT capabilities. With services available from just £49.50, give your child the hints and tips they need to stand out from the crowd.
This service will encourage your child to engage in social media to actively market their ‘personal brand’ (themselves) and to draw employer’s attention to their brand to get themselves noticed or head hunted. The cost is £49.50 for an hour of consultancy.
This award demonstrates excellence in partnership working, ensuring fundamental protocols are followed when working alongside one or more organisation(s). We can provide you with support and assessments for this award. Contact us at enquiries@complete-careers.com to find out more.
Connecting you to the local community with regular e-newsletters linking the labour market demand of local business, with the future labour market supply in schools and colleges and inviting you to network at our annual Guidance Conference. If you would like to be added to our mailing list please email us at enquiries@complete-careers.com
This service can be most effective for hiring new staff, or increasing the productivity of existing staff. We can help groups of employees to understand more about themselves and their working preferences using comprehensive profiling tools made available in standard and advanced packages. This can help an employee recognise their strengths and limitations thus creating enhanced productivity. Profiling tools can also help you find the right candidate when recruiting staff. We can work with you to determine the profile of the type of employee you are looking to recruit. The psychometric assessments will then enable you to match the applicants to your preferred profile.
Redundancy can be challenging for employers as well as employees. Thankfully the Complete-Careers team has the experience to help individuals discover their career potential, coupled with the knowledge of the local labour market to help them regain employment.
These can help staff including managers to identify goals, overcome barriers and reach their full potential. One to one sessions over an agreed period with a qualified workplace coach/mentor can help your staff and business grow. Get individual support from £25 per hour.
We can provide a range of courses (accredited and non-accredited) to enhance your workforce’s knowledge, skills and performance. We can also provide tailor made training to meet your needs. Popular course topics include accredited Coaching and Mentoring qualifications at Levels 3, Effective use of Social Media to help economic growth and a practical 1-1 Skills course to boost the impact of review and appraisal processes. Contact us to find out more about for a full list of current courses.
We have launched our new Career Mark Members Area. If you are a member and have not already done so, please click this link to re-set your password and gain access.