Who are We?
Teaching out of the Box have been working in the area of career and life coaching for over 15 years. We have helped thousands of people in South Africa and all over the world find their purpose-driven life.
Andrew, the founder of the course, came up with the concept that could help people find their dream career through experiential learning. Having been a qualified teacher and life coach himself, he came up with the concept of The Gap Year Course in 2007 - a course for people who didn't know what they wanted to do when they left school. Simpson could relate as he himself did not know what he wanted to do when he matriculated. By learning about and experiencing over 25 careers personally, he spent over 10 years creating what would be a way that people could be exposed to different careers and developed his "Gap Formula" which is unique to our course.
In 2018 the very first Gap Year Experience ran at the Joburg Theatre and has run successfully every year since.
In 2020 the Covid lockdown meant that the entirely in-person course had to go online. The team worked tirelessly to make the course accessible in an online format, and actually found that a lot of the course worked better online. As the demand for people of all ages, including the parents of our Gap Year students, to do the course to find their dream career, Simpson and the team set about translating the course and making it accessible for adults and students still at school. The Journey of Careers was thus established. A Journey that anyone from age 14-125 can do. Students from 14-25 have a special Career Journey course to find what career is the one for them and for Adults over 25 a journey to find their dream career, evolve in their current one, and how to take an idea and start their own business.
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Is it a Psycometric Test?
No, our "Gap Formula" works in an entirely different way to any other career model out there, and the format style and content is entirely unique to us. It is based on practically being involved in the over 160 careers we teach on the course.
What is the Difference between the Student Career Journey (14-25 years) and the Adult Course (25 Years upwards)?
There are many similarities. The "Gap Formula" is used in both, but the way it is done is slightly different. As the students don't really have as much work experience at age 14-25 their one starts from a more grass-roots level and learning about what is out there, whereas the Adult one, has our Career lessons, but is more focused on the coaching aspect. Both systems work perfectly, and we tailor-make each journey to suit the individual.
How long does the course take?
They can take between 2 and 3 weeks, we can make it longer or shorter, depending on the urgency and needs of the individual
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How does it Work?
Each course is unique and tailored to the individual and involves our practical learning of the careers, as well as using our career and life coaching methods. Each one has our "Gap Formula". The entire Career Journey format is done online.
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​Do you use interships or job shadowing?
No, we used a lot of this in the early days of our work, and although it does have some positive benefits, we found that it didn't give the person a clear look the career itself for them as an individual, as they were seeing it through the eyes of whoever they were interning or shadowing - which could sometimes be a good or a bad thing. It was dependent on the person or company being shadowed and what was felt about their experience, and therefore not personalised for the individual. We want our students to be able to visualise the career, without anyone else's bias, opinion or viewpoint getting in the way - to see if this truly is the voaction for them.
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How much is the Course?
​The course is R6500 for the Student Career Journey or the Adult Career Journey. For info on our Gap Year Course please click here
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How can I book the Course?
To book the course please email us at info@careercoaching.co.za to get all the info. If you need to have a 10 minute live Zoom session with us to ask any important questions then please let us know and that can be arranged