Career and Human Resource Development Services
OVERVIEW OF FULL RANGE OF SERVICES
Hamilton Knight Associates offers over twenty-five (25) years of successful experience in providing human resource (HR) services including recruitment of long-term employees, temporary staffing and professionals on contract for services. The latter provides organisations with the flexibility to retain the services and expertise of senior executives as well as administrative personnel for short term, or long-term projects and special assignments as the need arises and on demand at short notice.
In addition, HKA provides other relevant HR services including psychometric assessment, training in strategic areas such as: Customer Service and Sales; Leadership and Supervisory Skills; Coaching and Team Building; as well as Outplacement Services, Employees Counselling, Coaching and Career development. Through this comprehensive range of services HKA offers organisations and individuals not only a speedy and effective solution to meet its human resource needs but also a complete human resource development support system, with the ability to meet diverse requirements and challenges.
Hamilton Knight Associates (HKA) was Jamaica’s first Career and Human Resource Development Service’ within the Private Sector (founded in 1987). HKA developed and successfully delivers a range of services including:
- Career and human resource development services
- Counselling and consultancy
- Life coaching
- Career assessment
- Psychometric assessment
- Recruitment
- Outplacement
- Training in strategic areas
Our full range of services is supported by this website www.jobsandcareersjamaica.com through which we advertise positions, share career information and guidance and showcase many of our activities, events, and motivational interventions in videos and other verbal and written formats.
This comprehensive range of services gives us a competitive advantage, in that we are a “One-Stop Resource Centre” with the capacity to deliver relevant, Career and Human Resource Development Services; Consultancy; Counselling: Life Coaching; Recruitment; Outplacement; and Training Workshops and Seminars. We also operate with a cadre of professional associates who work with, and through us, for special interventions and projects. Added to this we maintain an excellent database of executive, administrative and clerical personnel who enable us to deliver “just in time services” and facilitate a flexible arrangement for staffing and special projects.
In addition, Hamilton Knight Associates developed and presented for over a decade our Careers & Lifestyles Expo Symposium & Job Fair, which became a successful calendar event, which attracted hundreds of walk-in participants; in search of information and opportunities and thousand more through the media.
CAREER ASSESSMENT AND COUNSELLING SERVICES
Psychometric and Career Assessment for identifying:
- Career Compatibility and Personality Traits
- Needs Assessment Surveys
- Staff Profiles
Career Assessment and Counselling services can range in duration and require varied interventions. Some can be delivered within a Career Development and/or Counselling Package. Those requiring interventions of a clinical nature will be referred. HKA has a list of psychologists and psychiatrists, with whom it maintains rapport and can refer them to our clients when necessary.
Our Career Development and Counselling Packages are geared to relatively short; effective interventions, which facilitate change management; attitudinal adjustments; personal empowerment; development of life management skills; coping mechanisms; as well as career development and retirement planning.
In this regard we are able to put together; cost-effective customised programmes, in relation to the client’s budget and time allocation.
Individuals may access different and/or specific components of the proposed packages at an agreed cost and time frame. This facilitates the degree of flexibility required to accommodate the varying needs of different clients. HKA will work with individual clients in determining these arrangements.
COUNSELLING AND OUTPLACEMENT WORKSHOPS
HKA offers counselling and outplacement workshops, which covers areas such as:
- Career Assessment and Development
- Work style Preferences and Work Values
- SWOT Analysis and Lifeline of Developmental Experiences and Achievements
- Specific Career Related Traits such as:
- Leadership
- Stress Tolerance
- Ability to multitask
- Emotional intelligence
- Sociability
- Adaptibility
- Managing anxieties or stress overload which can lead to insomnia, or lack of motivation
HKA also offers attitudinal and employee satisfaction surveys, which can inform the organization about the relevant needs of employees and guide organizations, and their employees in selecting change management strategies, managing the impact of downsizing, or successful transition for survivors, as well as guidance for counselling, coaching, and training interventions.
HKA provides services for the development of career profiles. These career profiles can be of benefit both to the organization, as well as staff, as they can be used to develop internal databases, which tap readily into the talent of the organization and provide quick access to information that can be used to guide future recruitment needs and identify skill gaps. From the employees’ perspective, it will help them to keep career conscious and equip them with information for self-assessment, self-empowerment, and management of their career and job progress. It will also prepare them for change.