Next steps

Last week We began evaluating our personal qualities and exploring the careers we might be suited to

This week We are going to explore the options available to you

We are going to come up with 3 potential careers and explore how we can achieve our goals.

Possible careers Brainstorm 10 potential careers that you might be interested in

Choose 3 that would be most appealing

Write down what skills you have that would apply to these jobs

What skills would you need to work on?

Career Matching Software You now need to use online software to help you choose the sort of careers that would be appropriate to your skills, interests and abilities.

There are a number of good ones available:

http://www.career-test.co.uk/ (simple and quick with no registration required)

http://sacu-student.com/?page_id=2850 (Spartan Test – mostly picture based – registration required and more detail needed)

http://www.plotr.co.uk/ (The most detailed and time consuming but an excellent resource with lots of detail)

For your suggested careers….. Using the suggestions that the career matching software have thrown up complete a career options sheet to help you explore how you will achieve this aim (tutors will have the sheet)