Deciding Which Career Suits You Best

Choosing the right career path is something which should be done earlier rather than later in life, as in order to get the best chances of success at a new job, you need to have the right qualifications - these are much easier to gain when still at school! Take a look online for some simple career aptitude tests to see which sort of career you might suit best. A good example is provided by prospects - a UK based organisation aiming to give young people a better start in life. Try the career test here. Once you have tried the test, you can get a list of matching career ideas which could work alongside your ethos and ideals.  This can help you to generate some ideas of your own, or begin to plan your steps to success!

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Choosing The Right Career From The Start

Career planning and development are not phrases that were banded about when my generation were going through school.  We used to be quizzed regularly as what we thought we'd like to do after school.  The replies ranged in those days from Train Driver, Fireman, Policeman, Doctor, Solicitor . . . . .    I no doubt our poor tutors used to wonder if any of us did make the grade in a chosen career!  These days though a career plan is a list of short, medium and long term goals with which to measure our career success and monitor the need to change direction or take additional courses to beef up our development and opportunities.   Identifying career options is done thouogh examining our interests and seeing what jumps out as a possible long term, lifelong career.   Students get offered work experience  becoming an intern for a short period to get an idea how a particular job functions or how a business group operates.

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Getting Career Advice From Pastoral Teachers

Knowing how we want to spend our working hours can be somewhat daunting as a 17 year old doing exams.  No one really has much idea about what each job entails until we get stuck in and do the job for weeks or months.  Many a young person will be influenced by previous generations of their family, quite rightly too.  But what was good enough for great grandpa may not now be what the next set want to do.  Especially if it meant putting lives at risk or moving to a ghastly far flung part of the world.    Most shools will have some form of careers advice section - usually run by a teacher who has other duties but is primarily in a pastoral and caring role within the school.  They share this enormous task with other teachers - it usually involves contacting universities and colleges to obtain masses of university entrance criteria and also knowing a general amount about what certain roles need in the way of eam results

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