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Find Out About Yourself

Planning for the future involves considering many issues and making complex decisions.

In basic terms there are three stages to choosing a career.

• Self-Awareness (what are you like and what skills have you got?)
• Opportunity Awareness (what jobs would suit you?)
• Job Hunting (how do you sell yourself to an employer?)

What are you like?

Personality assessments aim to measure whether your personal attributes would suit a particular work environment. They can be used to assess your motivation, interests and values.

Prospects Planner is a guidance tool designed for university students which can help you clarify your ideas and provides you with suggestions about which types of jobs might suit you. Try the Prospects Planner website.

You could also try some of these practice personality assessment sites to find out more about yourself and your attributes.

• SHL Direct practice personality assessment from one of the UK's largest test publishers.
• ASE-solutions includes examples of the 16PF5 personality test and Graduate Managerial Assessment tests.
• Keirsey temperament tests complete the online personality questionnaires - Keirsey Character Sorter and Kiersey Temperament Sorter
• Team technology gives access the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a commonly used assessment by employers to discover a candidate's personality type.
 

What Job Would Suit Me?

Prospects Planner is a guidance tool designed for university students which can help you think about which types of jobs might suit you. To try the Prospects Planner website.

Bear in mind the fact that similar jobs exist across almost the whole spectrum of employment, and that many industries require a wide range of specialists. For example a retail organisation may employ surveyors and a large engineering manufacturer will recruit accountants. Explore Prospects web site.

It is helpful to browse Prospects to read some graduate employers to see the differences in jobs in different sectors.