Guidance can help you assess your current situation, identify skills and options and clarify goals, so that you can make informed decisions about learning and work and other aspects of your life.  A recent English report says:

"Good information, advice and guidance can be vital for finding the right training and the right work.  (It) help(s) people make the most of their lives and take in their own hands their future and that of their families and communities." World Class Skills 2007

Guidance can be of particular value if you are making changes, such as:

• redundancy
• returning to work after a break
• looking for a new challenge

It can help give you the skills for managing these changes in your learning and working life in the future.

EGSA services are free to individuals, confidential and can be delivered individually face to face, over the phone or by email.  Guidance can also be delivered to groups of learners or people interested in learning.  To find out more, call our Learners' Line or use the we can call you or ask us online options.

Guidance and Organisations

Guidance can be key to achieving organisational aims such as upskilling employees, engaging and progressing learners, and measuring the impact of learning.

EGSA provides a range of tailor made services for organisations to support such initiatives.  This includes our Realising Your Potential programme, a winner in the Institute of Career Guidance 2007 National Career Awards.  This will be our third national award for innovative guidance practice in the last two years.

What you can expect from EGSA

EGSA Guidance is delivered by skilled and qualified independent Advisers who follow national Codes of Principles and are specialists in providing adult guidance across Northern Ireland.  EGSA holds the matrix quality standard for Information, Advice and Guidance Services.

EGSA's guidance is informed by national and international practice, yet embedded in local needs and circumstances and has been developed and delivered through a wide range of partnerships.

To find out more, contact Becca Vaughan, Guidance Development Coordinator, on T: 028 9024 4274.