Careers materials
Choosing a career is a big decision. You'll spend a significant amount of time at work and in order to enjoy your job, stay motivated, and fulfil your potential you need to give it some thought.
The career planning model will help you no matter what stage in your life you are at. Discover more about the process and how to make the right career choice for you.
The first stage is Self Awareness, this means auditing your skills and assessing your interests and values. It's important to understand your skills and knowledge, so that you can match them to jobs you'd like to do and see it they're a good fit. It also helps to highlight any gaps in your knowledge that you might need to fill in order to achieve your goals.
Consider where you are now, where you want to be and how you're going to get there.
Questions to ask yourself:
- What am I good at?
- What are my interests, motivations and values?
- What do I enjoy at school?
- What do I want from a career?
- What kind of lifestyle do I want?
- What is important to me?
Taking one of the following career tests that look at personality and interests may help but, remember they don't take into account ability and may show some jobs that are not for you. You will probably be suited to more than one career and today's jobseekers usually change career direction more than once in their working life. Career tests are a useful starting point, to get you thinking about possibilities and jobs you might exclude.
Find out what you're like and what you could do
Discover:
- your strengths and what makes you tick
- some jobs you may enjoy
- what celebs you're like
Take the Buzz Quiz!
Careers Guidance Online
Exploration - Explore your career ideas. Research career paths of interest to you and the job market.
Explore the Career Zones at https://successatschool.org/careerzone to find out all about the different jobs you can do, what to study and how to get there, whether you're planning to leave school or heading to college or uni. Each zone is packed with helpful interviews, advice and links to set you on the right path to career superstardom. Includes free CV templates, CV samples, CV formatting and CV builder.
Russell Group Informed Choices - Use Informed Choices to help you understand which subjects open up different degrees, particularly at Russell Group universities.
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