NICHOLAS IDEMUDIA
4 Evenlode House
Coralline Walk
Abbey-Wood
London SE2 9TP
07985563468
PERSONAL PROFILE
A very innovative creative and dedicated Employment Consultant with the ability to assist individuals in identifying and overcoming personal barriers to employment. With previous experience in Job-Broking, Placement, Training and Careers advice, I have the ability to self-manage, achieve targets and meet deadlines in highly pressurised customer focused environments. Possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills, now looking for a position in an organisation where the ability to assist clients in their search for work, secure suitable employment opportunities and establish effective networks with employers and training providers are key employee attributes.
KEY SKILLS
* Advocacy, Negotiating and influencing skills
* Solution Orientated, Resourceful, with extremely productive Time management skills
* Ability to manage, support and develop a caseload of clients
* Ability to liaise and network effectively at all levels
* Motivating and Counselling skills
* Use and application of personal computers
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Nov 2009- Date; Bromley fields study centre, Groveland rd, Bromley.
Employment Adviser;
* Employment , Business and Careers Consultancy.
The Term Paper on Communication Skills as Career Filters
Communication skills a. are not as important as technical skills for career success. b. are not necessary in today's competitive job market. c. are ranked by recruiters at the top of qualities they most desire in job seekers. d. cannot be learned; they are innate. ANS:C Studies confirm that recruiters rank communication skills at the top of qualities they most desire in job seekers. Your ability ...
* Providing information to clients about the labour market and helping with making job applications.
* Improving job search skills through workshops, training and counselling.
* Running career surgeries and arranging placements to update career skills.
* Assisting individuals in identifying and overcoming personal barriers to employment.
* Organising curriculum vitae,interview skills and motivation workshops.
* Negotiating & ensuring employment,placements,training with employers inclusive of Training providers.
May-Nov 2009; Parkhouse Bell Ltd, 1 Bell Yard, London
Employment Adviser;
* Improving job search skills through workshops,training and counselling
* Assisting individuals in overcoming personal barriers to employment.
* Providing information to clients about the labour market and helping with making job applications.
* Running career surgeries and arranging placements to update client skills.
* Providing information to clients about Learning & Training opportunities.
Aug 2007-April 2009; Boanerges Employment Consultants, Plumstead London
Employment Consultant;
* Employment , Business and Careers Consultancy.
* Recruitment consultant duties.
* Negotiating & securing employment,placements,training for clients.
* Providing information to clients about the labour market and helping with making job applications.
* Improving job search skills through workshops, training and counselling.
* Running career surgeries and arranging placements to update career skills.
* Assisting individuals in identifying and overcoming personal barriers to employment
Jan -Aug 2007 Richmond Fellowship, Holloway, London
Employment Adviser;
* Assessing Clients eligibility for the service and employment potential.
* Establishing,Networking & maintaining contact with Employers,placement,training providers.
* Initiating engagement &maintaining a database of employers in the area.
* Assisting clients with career choice and planning
* Providing training in personal and skills development areas.
The Term Paper on The Range Of Client Problems And The Helping Skills Used With Clients
The Range of Client Problems and the Helping Skills Used with Clients Buddha once said, “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path”. The purpose of helping is to assist others in learning to overcome and/or cope with the problems they face in every day life. Those providing the help often do so to feel a sense of purpose by making a positive impact on other’s lives. In ...
* Negotiating & Securing employment, placements, training for clients.
* Monitoring and reviewing progress with clients
* Creation and Maintenance of efficient admin systems
* Production of routine management data & written/verbal report
Jul 2005-Dec 2006; Select Education Lecturers, London .
Lecturer;
* Providing subject cover as an Instructor at various Further education colleges in London.
* Running Tutorial sessions for students of Economics & Business studies.
* Helping with marking scripts & other Instructor duties.
Jan 2004-Jul 2005 Greenwich Education, Training & Advice. Woolwich, London .
Advice Worker;
* Providing Employment consultancy, careers and training advice to clients at outreach locations
* Discussing initial Business proposals with clients and referring them on to Business start-up organisations.
* Conducting Curriculum Vitae and Mock Interview workshops
* Providing Information and Advice Services to clients
* Helping clients improve job-search skills including filling out application forms and writing letters of application
* Informing clients about learning and training opportunities
* Counselling clients with Housing, debt and other sundry issues
July 2003-December 2004 Greenwich Education, Training and Advice Woolwich, London .
Learning and work Adviser;
* Providing information and advice to clients on employment, careers and training
* Helping clients draft curriculum vitae and fill out Application forms.
* Providing clients with local labour market information
April-July 2003; Select Education, Maidstone Kent
Supply Teacher;
* Helping with the organisation of Sports, Social and other school based activities.
* Teaching various subjects inclusive of mathematics in various secondary schools in Kent.
* Assisting with paperwork and other sundry school based Administrative duties.
The Essay on Employment and Job
The next step in the recruitment process is to determine whether the employees that are already working for the organization qualify for the position, or should they go out and look through an external source. There are three different methods of recruitment: internal, external, and online. Internal recruitment method is used to recruit current employees who qualify the position as they become ...
October 2002-April 2003 Hamnet Ltd, Catford, London
Employment Adviser/ Job-Search Tutor;
* Helping learners improve job search skills including filling out Application
* Forms, writing letters of application, preparing interview-generating curriculum vitae and developing better interview techniques
* Assisting individuals in overcoming personal barriers to employment
* Arranging placements, organising training sessions and workshops to improve client employability
* Providing information to learners about the labour market and assisting with Identifying suitable vacancies
* Informing clients about learning and training opportunities
* Helping learners in developing skills to improve job prospects
May-October 2002 Three Rs Ltd, Chatham , Kent
Supply Teacher
* Normal supply teaching duties as outlined previously for Select Education
July 1997-April 1998 Employment service Job-Centre East-Ham, London
Job Broking Clerk/Local office liaison officer
Job-Broking duties:-
* Setting up new users on the N.U.B.S.2 LMS AND JSAPS Computer systems
* Unlocking users locked out from the various inter-linked computer systems used in the employment service.
* Sundry Quasi Network Administrator duties
February-June 1997 Employment service job-centre, East-Ham, London
Client Adviser (MPB7)
* Setting up initial claims and advising clients on rules and regulations governing receipt of state Benefits
* Referring suitable clients on to employers, Job Clubs, other employment
* Initiatives or training organisations
* Advising clients on a broad range of Government employment initiative
* Keeping personal office performance targets under review and making sure targets were met.
* Supervision of Administrative officers and counter-signing replacement Giro cheques
March 1995-November 1996 Borough Employment Service Job-Centre, Borough London
The Essay on Employment and Services Sector
The increasing unemployment rate among the graduates in Malaysia is a worrying trend. For many years, the issue cropped up again and again, made the news headlines, and even hit the parliament. The days have passed when a degree scroll can become your automatic passport to employment. Higher education is no longer a symbol of career success. This may sound painful for graduates but let’s face it. ...
Counsellor/ Client Adviser/ New claims Adviser
* Counselling and motivating long-term unemployed clients
* Giving initial business advice and referring clients on to business start-up organisations.
* Preparing back to work plans with active client participation which reflects
* The best day to day steps to aid client job-search.
* Referring clients to relevant Employment Service programmes that is job club, Restart.
* Conducting key stage interviews for clients who are 13 weeks, 6 month 1 year and over 2 years unemployed
* Doing preliminary interviews with clients in need of Career advice and referring them on to the local careers service.
* Carrying out new claim interviews, advising clients on rules and regulations governing receipt of state benefits and preparing initial clerical and computer records
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Post-graduate Diploma Careers & Guidance Counselling(part-completed) University of East London June 2006.
COURSES ATTENDED;Action planning& Goal setting March 2010, Motivating clients on welfare to work programmes Oct 2009,Equal opportunities & Diversity May 2009, Client centred interviewing Aug 2008, Developing the counselling relationship Feb 2008,New Deal for Disabled people Feb 2007, Introduction to mental health April 2007.
QUALIFICATIONS
1975-1980.B.Sc(Combined-Honours)Economics&Business-Administration, University of Benin .
Associate member Institute of Career Guidance
INTERESTS
I enjoy writing poetry, short articles, listening to music, reading &swimming
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Attended various staff training courses organised by the Department of employment between Nov 1991 and April 1998. Also attended several I.A.G courses organised by the Institute of careers guidance between July 2003 and May 2005.Various courses to promote understanding and implementation of welfare to work programmes organised by Hamnet Training between Oct 2002 and May 2003. Part-completed the City & Guilds Cert-Ed in Further Education in June 2003. Also Training as a life coach organised by the Newcastle university in 2004. I did some work with T.B.G Learning as an Employment Adviser in Dec 2006.My work at T.B.G learning was inclusive of liaison with new and established employers in the area to provide a source of employment for clients on my case-load, training in job-search skills and outreach work to ensure constant updating of my database of employers.I studied Health-Science and Herbal medicine at Middlesex University between October 1998 and June 2002. Within the same period I also did Post-Graduate studies in psychoanalysis.
The Term Paper on Training and Professional Development
Training is the process of acquiring specific skills to perform a job better (Jucious, 1963). It helps people to become qualified and proficient in doing some jobs (Dahama, 1979). Usually an organization facilitates the employees’ learning through training so that their modified behaviour contributes to the attainment of the organization’s goals and objectives. Van Dersal (1962) ...
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