Career Coaching using the Morrisby Online Career Assessments in England and Australia
I have been really busy moving to the UK and can report that this has been a wonderful transition for me. I am lucky in that I have always maintained a strong link to my home country over the years. In particular my work using the Morrisby Online Career Assessments (MO) has straddled both locations.
The MO is in fact a UK invention. The creator, Malcolm Morrisby has a long and wonderful reputation and I was lucky enough to be trained in its use by the Australia-based Barry Darnell, at Career Analysts.
I began using the MO with a large percentage of my Australian clients over the years and went on to be a consultant for the Victorian Department of Education program, utilising the MO in State schools across Victoria.
Of course, in 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic prevented the program from running in schools for some time, however we did manage to pivot quite quickly to online consultations, which worked very well.
I continue to carry out my career coaching online, as this has proved, through research, to be a very effective counselling methodology. Indeed, clients readily divulge information when they feel at ease, in their own environments, rather than in an alien location. Online Career Coaching means that I can be within reach of clients in rural, regional, interstate and international locations. Using the Morrisby Online Career Assessment, I can show the user how to navigate and understand their reports, simply by sharing my screen and pointing to parts of their results using my cursor. They can then take over, in subsequent sessions, such that I can be sure that they are feeling fluent on the platform.
In the UK I’m expanding my reach in career coaching by consulting in schools in the independent sector, through EC Careers. These schools have been using the Morrisby Online Career Assessment as a tool of choice for their students from years 10 to 13. The MO allows them to look at their options for GCSEs, A’ Levels and for further training and study beyond year 13. I have been enjoying this opportunity to return to face-to-face consulting.
Of course, it tests the brain to keep on top of the two different academic years in Australia and the UK, but that’s good for my own brain cells 🙂
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