Career Essentials

Equality Impact Assessment

Report Summary

Careers Essentials is a motivational career planning and employability programme designed to help clients who have physical and psychological barriers to gaining and sustaining employment or training.

The programme provides clients with the knowledge, tools and career guidance to enhance their employment and training prospects. It highlights the importance of identifying and developing their natural abilities and soft skills, understanding the needs of employers and how to access the open and hidden job market. 

The central activities of the programme are in depth career guidance and counselling, individual career planning, work motivation, identifying ways to overcoming obstacles to employment and training and understanding what a work environment feels like.