Exploring your options

Successful career planning is built upon your own personal self-awareness.  This means identifying with your personality type, the interests you might have, as well as your developed skills and competencies.  Knowing yourself will help you to match your skills with the career that best suits you.  Career planning should be a positive and rewarding insight into a wide range of opportunities and careers that might just be the one you are looking for.  Early planning can reap rewards if you take the time to identify with what would fulfil your goals.

Below are some popular resources you can use to help explore and research job roles matched to your skills, interests and personality type.

Prospects

Prospects is the UK's biggest graduate careers website with more than two million monthly browsers. They provide a market-leading portfolio of graduate career and postgraduate study recruitment options and work in close partnership with HE and further education (FE) professional bodies and government to deliver unique services that benefit the sector. The Prospects website holds a range of useful information on careers, qualifications as well as tips for preparing to enter the world of work.

• Prospect Planner

Icould

Icould are part of the Education and Employers charity that helps draw links between school subjects and jobs encouraging people to discover opportunities they may not have known about before and to show what is possible in the world of work.

• icould.com/buzz-quiz/ - icould buzz quiz

Psychometric Institute

The Institute of Psychometric Coaching (IPC) has been an Australian leader since 2006 in providing professional preparation solutions online and face-to-face for the Aptitude & Personality tests used in Australia for job seekers preparing over 150,000 job applicants for employment in the last 13 years.

• Personality Test

Mind Tools

Mind Tools is one of the world’s most popular digital, on-demand career and management learning solutions, helping more than 24 million* people each year.

• www.mindtools.com - big personality test

My world of work

My World of work is part of the careers service offered by Skills Development Scotland.

• www.myworldofwork.co.uk/looking-work