Accredited Career Practitioners

Personal Details

Name: Derek Hartley
Email: derek.hartley@acsol.co.uk
Serves: Greater Manchester, Greater Merseyside, South Lancashire

Personal Profile

I have 8yrs consultancy experience involving the design, development and delivery of a range of commercially viable work force development services to Public, Private and Third Sector organisations and a variety of individuals from Chief Executives and Graduates to long term unemployed Adults.

I have 28 years successful experience of the strategic and operational management and development of services to young people and adults. I am a skilled career consultant with a Post Graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance and a Diploma in Careers Education. I am a member of the Institute of Careers Guidance and The Institute of Leadership and Management.

My main interest is music, which ranges from Nickel-back to Bluegrass. I play the guitar. I enjoy cooking. I have bred competition horses as a hobby. Angling is a new and growing hobby with 6 Roach, 2× 2-3lb Carp in my first outing and 2 ×2lb Trout on my second. I am a new grandad with a new grandson!

Professional Information

ACSOL Accredited Careers Advisor

Relevant Qualifications

Diploma in Careers Education – Nottingham & Trent University. (2008)
D32/D33 Assessor Careers Guidance. OCR (2001)
Aptitude and Ability Assessment, level A. (1996)
Personality Assessment, level B. (1998)
Trained in a variety of Psychometric Assessments. 1996 to date
Post Graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance, LGTB. (1982)
Institute of Industrial Managers, Production Management Diploma, Liverpool Polytechnic. (1980)
Institute of Industrial Managers, Production Management Certificate, St Helens Business School. (1978)
HNC Science, St Helens College of Technology. (1973)
I have kept up to date with new techniques and developments in relation to Career Guidance, Personal Development and Management & Organisational development through-out my career.
I have attended numerous 1-3 day accredited development courses

Skills & Achievements in Career Guidance

I am an unusual mix of careers adviser, consultant, trainer and manager and I have a range of skills applicable to these areas.

By nature a ‘self-starter’, I have an ability and infectious enthusiasm for this kind of work. I have developed a range of expertise including, personal development profiling, training needs and job analysis, personality and aptitude assessment, the development of assessment tools, change/transition management, employability profiling, job search skills and redundancy counselling. I have also trained other practitioners in these skills and led on strategic approaches to change and transition management within large organisations.

I have been involved in the development of a number of career assessment tools and the writing of job search booklets for adults and young people some of which are selling world wide.

I turn peoples ‘lights on’ to possibilities and alternatives and support them to make successful transitions. My motivation is making a difference to peoples personal and work lives, enabling them to be happier, more successful, and effective

Experience in Career Guidance

My work with Adults started in 1996 working for Career Decisions Ltd as an external Employer Services Consultant providing Careers Guidance, Training, Redundancy Counselling and Outplacement solutions to a range of Adults and Public, Private and Third Sector organisations in the Northwest e.g. Liverpool Council, Merseyside Police, TUC. 2001 I joined Connexions providing internal development and training solutions for Directors, Managers, and Advisers.

From 2002 I worked part time for my wife’s business providing Career Guidance Outplacement services to Adults and Employability services to Secondary Schools. I started my own business, DHA, in 2008