CPD

The Complete-Careers Team has over 100 years combined experience in supporting individuals and organisations to plan their career development and manage transitions. The team comprises a wealth of knowledge up to Masters level in Career Development as well as in teaching and assessing. We provide bespoke courses, training and continuous professional development programmes to meet your needs. These can range from working with a small delivery team, to whole staff training of 200 plus members of staff. Sessions’ content and methodology are designed to meet need and duration can range from a short introduction 45/60 mins to a programme of training days over an extended period.

Please contact us on admin@complete-careers.com for further information about any of the above courses/CPD sessions or to discuss your organisation’s training or consultancy needs.  

We can provide bespoke CPD sessions directly to learning providers and through hubs to careers leaders, enterprise advisors and co-ordinators. Previously we have delivered CPD related to topics such as:

Employers: Having 1:1 Conversations with Learners (delivered to Enterprise Advisers)

The aim of this session, delivered in person at a Hub networking event, was to give employers an understanding of modern approaches to careers development and to help them understand how to have impactful conversations with learners when they visit schools and colleges.

Using a professional judgement with Compass: Supporting Careers Leaders with their Compass Assessment (delivered to Enterprise Co-ordinators)

The aim of this session was to facilitate conversations with Enterprise Co-ordinators about the challenges of completing Compass assessments, and to empower them to make judgements around the Benchmarks. As experts in assessing the quality of careers, our staff delivered training to support the Enterprise Co-ordinators to examine the intent, implementation, and impact of the careers programs of schools with whom they work.

Supporting the Senior Leadership Teams in implementing the Provider Access Legislation (delivered to SLT within a Careers Hub)

This face to face delivery as part of the “Rethink Apprenticeships” program was developed in response to research showing that Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have a lower uptake of technical and vocational education than the national average. The aim of this CPD and Resources project was to educate the educators, providing subject teachers with a clear understanding of apprenticeships and technical education pathways to better support students.

Reflecting on Employer Encounters (delivered to teachers within a Careers Hub)

The aim of these sessions was to support with the preparation and reflection of staff undertaking their time with employers. The sessions involved a guide to help teachers to identify as many details as they could from the workplace, and gave practical skills for bringing their developing awareness of the labour market into their classrooms. These sessions were delivered via remote, twilight sessions, before and after teachers had their workplace visits.

Meeting Gatsby Benchmarks 4, 5 and 6 (delivered to Careers Leaders within a Careers Hub)

The aim of these three sessions, delivered remotely via twilight sessions, was to support Careers Leaders within a Hub to take positive action to expand their understanding of the Benchmarks. To focus, not simply on Compass, but identifying ways of improving the impact of employer encounters and workplace experience. The sessions aimed to support Careers Leaders to take steps to improve the engagement of academic staff and to audit this effectively.

Supporting the whole school engage with the Careers Agenda (delivered to whole staff at school)

The aim of this face to face session was to help academic staff to understand the value and importance of engaging with Careers, and to identify simple and practical ways to weave careers content into their lessons, trips and 1:1 conversations with learners. 

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