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Career Ambitions
Based in Cambridge, Career Ambitions has a strong reputation for enabling highly-trained and talented individuals to get through major career change, redundancy and/or indecision to realise their career potential and meet their ambitions.
Telephone: 01223 633 535
Address :
St John's Innovation Centre Cowley Road Cambridge
Post Code: CB4 0WS
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.careerambitions.co.uk
Membership Type: Professional Individual and Corporate <5
In addition to working with individuals to help them realise their career ambitions, we also offer extensive Outplacement support to companies when they are restructuring. This support includes preparing individuals for internal interview processes as well as workshops and coaching to help employees prepare for the external job market. Increasingly, we work alongside businesses to coach under-performing employees and help them to achieve their full potential.
Our specific services include:
- Career Management Coaching - Determining the best career route for the individual
- Confidence Coaching – Working alongside the individual to identify their key strengths and boost their confidence
- Redundancy and Outplacement Support - Supporting individuals to manage change and prepare for a new career
- Career and Job Profiling – work with individuals to reveal their sub-conscious motivations to understand what career(s) they’re best suited to.
- Online Career Ambitions Club - a unique Club containing a wealth of unique exercises to give its members the self-awareness, planning and expertise to achieve their true career potential.
In need of Career Preparation support?
Unsure What Career is for you?
Suffering a Career Crisis?
Standing out in a sky-high pile of job applicants comes down to how you craft your Curriculum Vitae – the book about your career.
02-11-2020
It’s hard for any of us to ignore that the world is in the grips of a crisis. It is in times like this of mass uncertainty and economic instability that many Cambridge companies have to make difficult decisions, often leading to redundancies.
30-06-2020
If you looked back at 2020, what would you remember? It would be easy to look back and feel like 2020 was enshrouded in a dark cloud. But it’s important to remember that this is only a tiny chapter in our lives - by no means is it the whole book!
26-05-2020
The role of leadership has ramped up dramatically over the past week and the tools and processes we used for managing teams are under scrutiny like never before. Now more than ever the definition of leadership as influencing others to willingly do what you want them to is being tested.
27-03-2020
A study commissioned by the Belgian government has found that if the UK were to leave the EU in a no-deal Brexit, 1.2 million jobs will be lost across Europe. And the UK will pay the largest price, losing almost 500,000 jobs.
26-11-2019
As the average life expectancy continues to increase and retirement ages get pushed back, our working lives are increasing. How much time are you going to spend in a career that you don’t love?
25-10-2019
When you’re hiring, how often do you take a candidate’s transferable skills into account?
31-07-2019
We all know how important it is to look after your company’s brand reputation when hiring – but how is your own recruiting reputation?
20-06-2019
As an HR or line manager, it’s likely that you’ve dealt with plenty of employee fall-out. Whether it’s caused by one employee behaving badly, or a misunderstanding that escalated... often, communication is the culprit. It can make or break a situation (and a team).
08-05-2019
Career management coach Katherine Wiid of Career Ambitions writes: "I’ve been inundated in the first quarter of 2019 with new clients who have been made redundant. In fact, I had 25 clients who were made redundant in March alone! While your first thoughts may be of panic ('what’s going on?' and 'will I be next?'), it’s not all bad news.
30-04-2019
The word on the street is that the job market is slowing down. Many are blaming it on Brexit, but is it actually just a case of panic setting in?
03-12-2018
Almost half of the UK workforce is in a role that doesn’t match up with their skill set. This startling research from the CIPD goes some way to explaining why in the UK we have a large number of unmotivated, unchallenged employees who aren’t excited about what they’re doing.
30-10-2018
How often do you hear the phrase ‘skills shortage’? And how has it affected your experience of recruiting? In 2018, candidates seem to be at an all time low. There just aren’t enough talented people to fill the roles available, and recruitment managers are reporting that hiring is harder than ever.
14-09-2018
Brexit is causing an increasing number of UK companies to restructure. Uncertainty is at an all time high. As it looks like we are moving towards a hard Brexit, many UK companies and their employees feel they are on shaky ground. But what does this mean for employers and employees in reality and what can we do about it?
03-09-2018
At the Cambridge Network Recruitment Evening on 4th July 2018, Career Ambitions asked candidates about their career motivations. The results were clear – candidates are prioritising satisfaction when it comes to work.
20-07-2018
When you’re recruiting, how often do you Google a candidate’s name? Pretty often, if the stats are anything to go on (more than a third admit to it, but we bet it’s higher!)
09-05-2018
Is your organisation struggling to recruit? Can’t fill your job vacancies fast enough? Finding it hard to attract the perfect candidate?
28-03-2018
With the shortage of people to fill jobs, there’s never been a better time to reevaluate your recruitment strategy. 2018 is the year to question your biases. As an interviewer, are you trying to recruit someone like you?
16-03-2018
Robots already play a huge role in the UK workplace. But recent research predicts that over four million jobs will be lost to robots within the next 10 years – a statistic that will rock the job market.
26-01-2018
2017 has been a year full of change - from Brexit to significant leadership shifts and the resultant ever-fluctuating job market. With change comes opportunity - but what does that mean for the world of work in the year ahead?
13-12-2017
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