MAD Leadership Foundation offers psychometric assessments and career guidance to aid learners navigate their career decision-making process. Starting in high school, we work closely with our Grade 9, 11 and 12 learners to develop self-awareness and gain valuable career insights in order for them to make an informed career decision. We assist Grade 12 learners in the application process by providing them with all the information needed to successfully submit their applications. We cover the cost of the application fee to three universities to create options for the scholars.
Benefits Of Subject Choice & Career Guidance:
Subject choice and career guidance play a vital role in helping learners make informed decisions about their future education and career pathways.
- Identify Strengths & Abilities: Through aptitude and psychometric assessments, learners gain a deeper understanding of their strengths, abilities, and areas for development. This insight helps them select subjects and career paths that align with their potential.
- Build Knowledge: Career guidance equips scholars with the information, resources and support they need to make well-informed decisions about their subject choices, tertiary education and future careers.
- Explore Interests: Learners are encouraged to explore their interests, values and aspirations, enabling them to choose careers that are meaningful and fulfilling. This process also promotes greater self-awareness and confidence in their decision-making.
- Gain Insight: Many learners have limited exposure to the wide range of careers and employment opportunities available to them. Career guidance broadens their understanding of these opportunities and helps them identify career paths that best suit their abilities, interests, and personality.
Preparing for a successful career involves far more than simply choosing a job. It begins with developing a clear understanding of one’s strengths, interests, values and aspirations, and aligning these with a career that is the best fit. Many factors influence effective career decision-making One of the most important is making informed and realistic subject choices in Grade 9. These choices lay the foundation for future study opportunities and career pathways throughout Grades 10 to 12 and beyond.
Grade 9 Subject Choice Assessments include:
In Grade 9, learners often face significant pressure to make the right subject choices. We support this important decision-making process through a comprehensive suite of online psychometric assessments, followed by a detailed feedback report and personalised telephonic feedback sessions to help learners and their families make informed choices.
- Scholars begin by completing a biographical workbook designed to help them gain a deeper understanding of themselves.
- A comprehensive suite of psychometric assessments for subject choice guidance is then undertaken. These consist of an aptitude, personality and interests’ assessment conducted online using the MindConnect platform and Microsoft Teams (or similar).
- A detailed assessment feedback report is then produced, followed by
- A 30-minute telephonic feedback session to discuss assessment results and recommendations
Grade 11 & 12 Career Guidance Assessments include:
We assist learners in career guidance through a comprehensive suite of online psychometric assessments, a detailed feedback report and personalised telephonic feedback sessions.
- Scholars begin by completing a biographical workbook designed to help them gain a deeper understanding of themselves.
- A comprehensive suite of psychometric assessments for career guidance is then undertaken. These consist of an aptitude, personality and interests’ assessment conducted online using the MindConnect platform and Microsoft Teams (or similar).
- A detailed assessment feedback report is then produced, followed by
- A 30-minute telephonic feedback session to discuss assessment results and recommendations.
Contact
Navigate Programme Leadinfo@madleadership.org27 (0)82 933 6137If you’re interested in learning more about Navigate or have any questions, please get in touch with our team. Kindly address communication to: Navigate Programme Lead.