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Career Transformation

Shaping your future career

British Psychological Society accredited Chartered Psychologists and HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologists. For over 35 years, KCP has helped organisations and individuals explore, develop and enhance careers through robust,evidence-based assessment.

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Who we are

Knight Chapman Psychological

Established in 1988, KCP is a specialist consultancy of occupational and organisational psychologists, providing assessment, guidance and development for individuals and organisations.

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KNIGHT CHAPMAN

PSYCHOLOGICAL

who we are

Established in 1988, KCP is a specialist consultancy of occupational/organisational psychologists. We are developers and publishers of ability measures, personality/motivational questionnaires, career guidance tools, personal development questionnaires and simulation activities. Our assessment services range from assessments of individuals through to the assessment of all the managers in organisations.

Andy, our founding Managing Director, is a Registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has been a practising psychologist for over 45 years. Prior to moving into consultancy, Andy worked in the transport sector, government and the pharmaceutical industry as a senior HR and L&D Manager.

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KNIGHT CHAPMAN

PSYCHOLOGICAL

career counselling

Our career counselling services are designed for people at all stages of their working lives, from school leavers through to career reviews for experienced people. In all cases our services include:

  • In-depth assessment of your abilities, behavioural preferences, values and motivation. It is important to understand you as a person so that we can work with you to find the very best matches.
  • Administration and expert interpretation of a full range of psychometric tests and questionnaires.
  • One-to-one career discussions with a fully qualified and registered Psychologist to explore your initial needs and then follow-up to analyse your results and agree plans.
  • A full report with our recommendations for career pathways.

Currently all our counselling sessions can be conducted via video conferencing (Zoom, Teams, GoToMeeting etc).

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KNIGHT CHAPMAN

PSYCHOLOGICAL

work counselling

Our work counselling services are designed for anyone who is experiencing discomfort in the workplace. We will:

  • Carry out a detailed exploration of your circumstances.
  • Use structured questionnaires to help uncover your underlying styles of thinking and working with issues.
  • Provide one-to-one counselling with a qualified psychologist to examine ways to improve the situation.
  • Provide a written report on agreed ways forward.
Beginning the journey

School-leavers, Students, Graduates

The jumping off point to a secure, happy and fulfilling future with expert guidance in matching you to work roles.

Starting out

STARTING OUT

STAGE ONE

self-awareness

The first stage of your career exploration journey is to help you gain more insights into yourself:

  • Personality – your typical behaviours and preferences; how you like to interact with people and tasks and how you feel about things.
  • Abilities – the things that you are good at and the things that you can be even better at.
  • Interests – the things that you would enjoy doing.
  • Needs – what are you looking for? What sacrifices are you willing to make?
Starting out

STARTING OUT

STAGE TWO

exploring and deciding

The second stage is to make sense of what you have learnt about yourself. We will work with you to:

  • Integrate all the information gained to develop a profile of your core strengths.
  • Evaluate the fit between your preferences and needs.
  • Identify possible career options.
  • Examine any needs for further education and/or training.
  • Produce an action plan to achieve your goals.
Starting out

STARTING OUT

process

  • You will complete a background information form before we meet.
  • You will then meet a psychologist for a preliminary discussion to explore your situation: approx 30 minutes.
  • We will ask you to complete a number of tests and questionnaires in your own time: allow about 1 to 1.5 hours.
  • Follow-up meeting with your psychologist to review the results, discuss options and plan actions: allow about 1 to 1.5 hours.
  • We will provide a full written report after the planning session.
Reflections

Career Review & Career Change

Where you are, where you've been, and where you might go. We'll help you audit your strengths and limitations and build a foundation for your future path.

Changing direction

CHANGING DIRECTION

STAGE ONE

self-awareness

The first stage of reviewing your career direction is to help you gain more insights into yourself:

  • Personality – your typical behaviours and preferences; how you like to interact with people and tasks and how you feel about things.
  • Abilities – the things that you are good at and the things that you can be even better at.
  • Competencies – how you achieve outcomes.
  • Successes – past career highlights.
  • Motivation – your intrinsic and extrinsic drivers.
  • Interests – the things that you would enjoy doing.
  • Needs – what are you looking for? What sacrifices are you willing to make?
Changing direction

CHANGING DIRECTION

STAGE TWO

exploring and deciding

The second stage is to make sense of what you have learnt about yourself. We will work with you to:

  • Integrate all the information gained to develop a profile of your core strengths and limitations.
  • Examine any development needs.
  • Consider pros and cons of different career paths.
  • Identify the resources required for change and obstacles to change.
  • Produce an action plan to achieve your goals.
Changing direction

CHANGING DIRECTION

process

  • You will complete a detailed background information form before we meet.
  • You will then meet a psychologist for a preliminary discussion to discuss your situation: approx 1 hour.
  • We will ask you to complete a number of tests, questionnaires and activities in your own time: allow about 4 to 5 hours.
  • Feedback meeting with your psychologist to review the results; discuss options, opportunities and obstacles; and brainstorm actions: allow about 1.5–2 hours.
  • Progress check on your action plan: allow about 45 minutes.
Building confidence

Work Counselling

Professional help in building confidence, developing workplace strategies and enhancing wellbeing.

Work counselling

WORK COUNSELLING

STAGE ONE

describing the issues

The first stage of the process is for us to get a better understanding of your environment, your job and you as a person:

  • We will ask you to complete a questionnaire describing your organisation.
  • You will be asked to describe your job, role, responsibilities and important tasks and relationships.
  • We may ask you to complete one or more self-report questionnaires, including personality, motivation and thinking styles questionnaires.
  • We will ask you for a description of your current situation – what is happening for you right now; how you are thinking and feeling.

All the above will probably take you a couple of hours.

Work counselling

WORK COUNSELLING

STAGE TWO

exploring the issues

The second stage is to work together to develop a shared understanding of what is happening. We will:

  • Start by using your pre-meeting questionnaires and build up a profile of how you go about work and your awareness of yourself.
  • Help you understand how your current circumstances and your behaviours, preferences and thinking styles interact.
  • Develop activities and homework to help you reframe the way that you respond to triggers at work.

This one-to-one session will typically take about 1.5 hours of contact time.

Work counselling

WORK COUNSELLING

STAGE THREE

progress review

  • We will meet you again and review how things are going. Allow 1 hour.
  • Together we will agree your next steps. This may include additional homework sessions and follow-up meetings.

It is impossible to know in advance how many, if any, sessions may be required after Stage One and Stage Two. Any additional sessions are entirely at your discretion.

Assessment & talent

Contact us

Do contact us to discuss career aims, your aspirations and any career or workplace blockers.

Knight Chapman Psychological Ltd

The Hive

66 High Street

Lewes

East Sussex

BN7 1XG

Phone: +44 1273 470052

Email: service@kcpltd.com

We aim to respond to all enquiries as quickly as possible, including evenings and weekends where we can.

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