Career Coaching and Counselling PGA

Develops your understanding and skills on Career Coaching and Counselling PGA. Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning draws on a wide range of expertise across our professional networks. Gain insight into how to provide creative and effective career support.

Course Overview

This postgraduate award enables you to develop an understanding and skills in career coaching and counselling, and their use in career development. You will also integrate this understanding with your practice in a variety of contexts.

Teaching

30 hours of blended learning that is predominantly an intensive, two-day workshop with further materials provided via a virtual learning environment including webinar, peer and tutorial support.

Assessment

The assignment consists of a 5,000 word project (100%). Typically, you are asked to critique a case study of a career coaching interaction, and then record and comment on your own use of career coaching concepts in a career helping conversation

Careers

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including: Age UK; Coventry City Council; Department for Work and Pensions; Refugee Council; Unicef UK and the University of Cambridge. They have pursued roles such as: further education teaching professionals; human resources administrative occupations; psychologists; social workers and vocational and industrial trainers and instructors.

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

• Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
• Transferable skills for counselling
• Effective applications for counselling
• Effective applications for PGDE
• Interview skills for PGDE