Another great blog from the careers service
The age old question of how do I decide what I want to do foxes many of us and if you were expecting easy answers then I will disappoint and say there probably isn’t one sure fire way to work this out.
Break down your own individual ‘skill set’ and think about these in priority order. Also think about preferences, so your own likes and dislikes. Here are some ideas to get your started.
- Are you someone who prefers to work alone or in a team or maybe you are happy with a mixture of both?
- Remember some people belong to multiple teams and may work alongside people doing the same job or a range of different jobs.
- Do you want to design, develop and /or manufacture a product? What does that look like to you? Would you like to use innovative skills or techniques? Maybe be involved in research and develop.
- Do you want to help others in some way, advise , support, treat, perhaps teach? If its teaching, is that to young children, older students, or even adult learners ? What subject/s would you teach?
- Are you the sort of person who can promote or sell goods or services? Are you motivated by targets and can you achieve these and even go beyond what’s needed
- Are you a logical thinker? Can you work with processes and systems? Even design them?
- Are you someone who enjoys presenting?
We can carry on with this but if you have got this far then its probably worth you going to the Prospects Quiz on the home page of the prospects website. This more extensive list of questions will yield results of around 20 job profiles which is a lot easier than looking at 400 plus .
Give that a go ( maybe even over the upcoming break) and if you would like to discuss your findings then feel free to book an appointment with one of our Career Development Advisers based at all the university campuses.
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/careers/contact-us/index.aspx
