Careers Lab
It can be a little daunting thinking about your future. You want to make the right decisions, make your family proud, get independence and find the right place. Here’s how we can help:
Match you to jobs you would enjoy
Give you career advice such as explaining the benefits and drawbacks of different options:
- Getting a job vs studying
- Apprenticeship vs university degree
- Working in public sector vs private sector
- Working in a big company vs a smaller one, such as a start-up
Interview coaching:
- Preparing your answers
- What to say vs what not to say
- What to wear
Office preparation
- How to behave in a virtual office vs a real office
- How to make your manager happy
- How to solve typical work situations
Be sure to follow @igrowcareers on social media for easy and quick career tips!
Now you have completed your degree it’s time to make a difference. A graduate career coach can help you find security, meaningful work and a company that matches your values and purpose. Graduate coaching can:
Match you to the right graduate programmes and entry level jobs
Clarify the benefits of different career options:
- Joining the public sector vs private sector
- Working for a big company vs a start-up
- Working in different departments
Prepare you for interviews:
How to answer different questions such as motivational, competency-based, situational and personality-based
Prepare you for assessment centre:
- How to manage a virtual and face-to-face assessment centre
- How to do well in different exercises (group, role play, case study, defamiliarisation)
Prepare you for office life:
- How to behave in a virtual office vs a real office
- How to make your manager happy
- How to get a good reputation
- How to influence upwards
Be sure to follow @igrowcareers on social media for weekly career tips!
TESTIMONIALS
EARLY CAREERS
MANAGERS
EXECUTIVES
Corporate Clients
iGrow Careers are experts at matching people to jobs and nurturing their growth.
I know this because I worked with the founder – Veronika – at a FT100 company on assessing and developing groups of graduates and apprentices.
Veronika is patient helps people define their goals and progress in their career. She helped in me in my own career so I highly recommend working with her.
Natasha Silver
Early Career Specialist
I started coaching with iGrow Careers during a difficult period. I was looking to transition career while also dealing with some personal problems (not to mention the care of a 1-year-old). Despite my successes, including appointments at prestigious American and English universities, I was anxious about my prospects and daunted by the maze of different career paths. Veronika coached me, explaining what different employers were looking for and giving me useful advice on how to manage the interview process. She treated my situation holistically, helping me get into a more optimistic space. I recommend her services in the highest terms, she’s an exceptional psychologist with a human touch.
Hugh Lazenby
Sales Manager, ICEoxford
As a freelancer, I sometimes struggle with motivation and lose sight of what is important. Veronika helped me define my goals and the steps I needed to take to achieve them. She balanced being supportive with holding me to account, ensuring things actually got done.
Veronika is a credible coach because she has a solid background in both psychology and business. She works with the whole person – their work, life and health – and was able to unlock my productivity by helping me deal with emotional issues.
Ksenia Nova
PR Consultant
I recommend Veronika to anyone who needs to reflect on their career goals and plan how to get there. She’s an exceptional listener and will provide the right balance of insightful advice on how to boost both your career and wellbeing. Given her background she can help you prepare for an interview or other types of assessment. She helped me regain confidence after a career break and take the steps needed to get closer to what I love doing.
Floriane Rumford-Hentsch
Organisation Assessment Executive at CIPD
Veronika is a visionary. This, combined with a real passion for getting people into the right careers, in-depth knowledge in her field and a meticulous attention to detail, means that she would always be my first recommendation for someone looking to develop their career or start a new one.
Maxine Ward
Life Coach, NLP practitioner at Maxine Ward Coaching
I worked in the BBC assessment team with Veronika. She is an experienced assessment psychologist with a genuine interest and care for the candidates. Veronika always took time to give thorough and helpful feedback to anyone who asked for it. She worked a lot on diversity and inclusion issues, providing real and actionable solutions.
Mary Ridge
Occupational Psychologist
I would highly recommend iGrow Careers to anyone seeking to advance their career.
I applied for an executive level role at the Metropolitan Police (London) which included multiple interviews and assessments. Veronika was extremely professional, thorough and knowledgeable during our coaching sessions. She reviewed my personality, skills experience and the job requirements, and prepared a realistic assessment rehearsal. She prepared a clear development report telling me how I can build on my strengths and mitigate areas of development. Veronika set pre-work “thinking” ahead of the sessions, which involved identifying work-placed examples that demonstrated conceptual thinking, emotional awareness and creativity. This provided additional context for the sessions, aiding personal insights. The feedback report from the one-to-one structured coaching sessions helped me to understand preferred approaches to work based situations, specific strengths and areas of potential risk in leadership style.
All in all, a highly cost-effective package which ultimately helped me to pass an assessment centre for future executive roles.
Owain Richards
Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
Veronika and I worked together at Sainsbury’s where she was our in-house Occupational Psychologist and assessment expert. We worked on several progressive recruitment projects including introducing a new approach to spotting diverse and talented managers in retail. I also observed that she did a nice job designing and delivering several solutions for our head office including:
– Executive leadership assessment
– Graduate and apprenticeship assessment
– Hi-potential development centre
– Online interview tool
Veronika coupled a deep knowledge of psychological principles and assessment with pragmatism. She sought out and acted on stakeholder priorities and feedback. Overall, Veronika left a positive legacy at Sainsbury’s because her solutions had integrity, were valid and fit for purpose in a fast-paced business environment.
Nicole Bradley
Head of HR Commercial, Sainsbury’s PLC
