Need help making decisions around your Leaving Cert & CAO?
- Are you in 3rd year or Transition Year and want to choose the best Leaving Cert. subjects to suit you?
- Are you in 5th year and wish to confirm the right career path for you?
- Are you in Leaving Cert and want to be confident that your CAO choices best reflect the most suited course options for you?
Whatever stage of secondary school you're at, it can be an important time to take the uncertainty out of your future choices and ensure the best options for you to maximise your potential.
Yvonne has spent years working with young people preparing for Leaving Cert, both in Yeats College and private practice. She has developed a comprehensive strengths profiling package, uniquely tailored to enable you to make an informed decision about the best career options in the future and how best to achieve that.
By working with Yvonne, you will:
- Gain understanding the subjects best suited to your strengths and career choice.
- Obtain a comprehensive report on each area of assessment highlighting your unique profile.
- Together, thoroughly investigate and understand each suitable career area and course option to evaluate your best options going forward.
- Receive detailed information on courses which would best suit you and your career path.
- Be advised on completing CAO form or other career application.
STUDY SKILLS
We all learn differently. Understanding how we learn can make the difference between succeeding in areas and constantly falling short & never feeling able enough. This, not only hugely impacts our learning, but our confidence and how we see ourselves. We may not have a clue of our potential.
To ensure you fulfill the strengths and abilities, you have, Yvonne will work with you to discover:
- You’re particular Learning Styles – Blog
- Best suited Study Techniques
- Effective Time Management skills
- Exam Preparation practices
- Exam Stress Management
SUBJECT CHOICES
- Are you in Junior Cert or Transition Year and wanting to choose the best Leaving Certificate subjects to suit you?
- Are you unsure where your strengths lie?
- Are you unsure of how subject choice can affect your career choice?
Yvonne has helped many young people choose the best subjects for them considering all of the above factors. She does this by helping you with the following:
Identifying which subjects you are naturally good at.
All of us have different strengths and natural abilities and it is when we apply these to subjects, that you will have more ease and enjoyment at studying them and ultimately do better in them. After all this is the aim, right?!
Pinpointing your best career options.
This can seem too early to be having to consider careers as well as subjects! In order to make the best decisions for you going forward, it is the ideal time to explore your strengths, enjoyment of certain areas with careers that may suit. Yvonne takes the hard work out of this and simplifies the process hugely so you can have clear direction, focus and confidence in going forward.
Selecting most suited courses for you and career choices.
In identifying career areas that will suit you best, those long list of CAO courses can be shortened specifically to suit you. Yvonne can work with you to ensure that you have the right order of courses in the right places for you so that irrespective of results you have a plan!
CAO OPTIONS
Choose My Career!! And I’m expected to do this in my Leaving Cert Year.This can seem overwhelming and daunting for students as there is so much else to be done between projects, orals, mocks etc in this year and they just don’t have time to even think about careers let alone what might suit them?
What if the CAO application form could actually make your life easier?The CAO form covers applications to all universities, institutes of technology and some private colleges in Southern Ireland, meaning you only have to complete 1 application for several universities and colleges.
What if you knew your unique profile of strengths & skills blended with your character?
Yvonne can work with you to identify how your unique strengths & skills would best suit certain careers - ones that will excite you after all your years in school. From here, you will learn what courses would best lead to these career paths.
Would this make the CAO application so much easier and almost enjoyable?!
If so, let Yvonne help take the hard work, stress and unnecessary worry out of your application. In the meantime, be sure to read my Blog on CAO and all course applications as they unfold during the Leaving Cert. year.
Mother of two Second Level Students
“I have to say that 2 of my son’s attended Yvonne in their 6th years and found her guidance & directional advice exceptional. She opened up so many alternative options & routes to both of them which they were not aware of. Yvonne gave them an in depth insight into the areas that they showed interest in and informed them all the possible routes to reach that qualification. I would highly recommend her advice to any leaving cert student who is struggling with the CAO.”
Martin - Leaving Cert Student
“Yvonne really understood me and my interests. The porfolio that she put together for me at the end was extremely informative & our meeting certainly opened my eyes to the potential course & career prospects that satisfy both my interests & my strengths. Yvonne also organised for me to meet with college lecturers & students to ensure that the courses she was recommending were definitely for me. I would recommend a meeting with Yvonne to anyone unsure about their choices for third level. She goes above & beyond in every aspect.”
How can Yvonne help you fulfil your potential?
Get in touch to discuss the best career guidance or psychotherapy options for you or your children.