Career support

On this page you can find resources to support you in your career, including our new mentoring platform, profiling tools, and career planning.

IFoA mentoring programme

How a mentor could make a difference:

  • Working with a mentor gives you a one-to-one connection with a qualified IFoA member, who can offer you tailored career and development advice to help you reach your goals
  • You’ll benefit from guidance, advice and support tailored to you and what you want to achieve.
  • Supported personal development, strengthening the skills employers are looking for, like communication, leadership, and problem-solving.
  • Encouragement and support from someone who has been on the same journey as you and can help you stay on track to meet your goals.

We have a wide variety of mentors from different practice areas, all of whom are ready to help you.

Find out more and sign up

Mentoring programme video series

Mentoring programme video series

Watch our series of short videos to help you understand the mentoring process and whether it’s right for you.
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Career Farm

Career Farm is a company that works with executives to help them manage their careers. In this short video Jane Barrett explains how Career Maximiser may assist in career planning.

Profiling tools

Profiling tools have been around for years, but they can help you gain a valuable insight into who you are and why you do the things the way you do.  Whether you work as part of a team or on your own, here are a couple of tools you may wish to use:

The Belbin profiling tool

16 Personalities 

These may also help you understand why others may do things differently and how to adapt the way you work to get the best out of them.

Lifelong learning and CPD

When this learning is relevant to your work or role and addresses a personal development area, this can also be used to meet your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements. 

You can review the requirements on our CPD Scheme page.

Lifelong learners are motivated to never stop learning

Take time to reflect and plan before you begin any new projects

Reflect: check the competencies against your current role and future ambitions

Plan: identify exactly what skills and knowledge you need and how best to acquire them

Do: take courses, read articles, find a mentor, look online, volunteer

Record: write down everything you do, how far it met your objectives, the impact on your work