Accredited Career Practitioners

Personal Details

Careers Advisor: Gareth Wibberly

Name: Gareth Wibberley
Email: gareth.wibberley@acsol.co.uk
Serves: Bedford, Luton, Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and other locations by arrangement

Personal Profile

A professional and committed career guidance practitioner with the ability to build productive working relationships with clients and to empower them to achieve their goals. After achieving the Qualification in Career Guidance (QCG) in 2004, I gained three years valuable experience in guidance before starting my own business in 2007, working with organisations in the private and public sectors to deliver a range of guidance projects.

Married and proud father to a little boy, most of my limited spare time is spent trying to catch fish from rivers around the country, and watching Rushden and Diamonds play football.

Professional Information

ACSOL Accredited Careers Advisor

Relevant Qualifications

  • Qualification in Career Guidance (QCG), 2003-2004.
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Career Guidance, University of Reading, 2003-2004.
  • BA Hons in Modern Foreign Languages, University of Leicester, 1990-1994.
  • Various professional development courses including Key Manager Programme, University of Warwick Business School, 1999-2000.

Skills & Achievements in Career Guidance

Extensive experience in helping people facing redundancy in various sectors from scientific research to food production. I have worked with individuals at all organisational levels and have helped many to embark on rewarding new careers.

Heavily involved in a successful project aimed at assisting people with qualifications gained overseas to adapt to the UK labour market and to find work that matches their skill levels and experience.

I have also worked with people returning to the labour market and have been successful in breaking down the barriers that they face.

Specific skills include CV writing/review, interview skills training, skills needs analysis and sourcing relevant training opportunities.

Experience in Career Guidance

Career Development Consultant for Learning for Life Beds and Luton, 2004-2007, coordinating redundancy support programmes and workforce development programmes for employees of SMEs .

Self-employed Career Guidance Professional, from February 2007.

Previous experience as a Project Manager for a muiltilingual solutions company, 1996-2003.