The Career Planning Tool
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The ultimate patner to the book
Each section provides practical tasks to
help you make your important decision
Find out more about the Career Planning Tool
By completing the tasks, you will:
- have explored what matters most to you
- be better able to picture what you want your life to look like
- have started to develop a clear vision for your life
By completing the tasks, you will:
- have reviewed your Psychometric Profile to identify your aptitudes, strengths, work-styles and workplace preferences
- have considered a list of suggested careers and ranked them in order of preference
By completing the tasks, you will:
- have reflected on who and what are influencing your decisions around going to university, and your career
- have had meaningful conversations with key people in your life and gathered their views in a methodological way.
By completing the tasks, you will:
- have created a detailed list of benefits of going to university & evaluated their importance
- have explored how to get the best value for your money
- have started to consider the skills employers are looking for in your prospective careers.
By completing the tasks, you will be able to:
- calculate the cost of going to different universities
- review graduate destinations by subject and university course
By completing the tasks, you will:
- have explored how you can get similar benefits that universities offer, taking a different route
- learn how to budget for living independently
By completing the tasks, you will have worked through the three-stage process:
- Getting work experience / shadowing
- What to do on your placement
- What to do afterwards
By completing the tasks, you will have:
- Reviewed your responses to the previous sections
- Completed a SWOT analysis & ranked your prospective career choices
- Used the decision making tree to make your decision
- Evaluated how you have developed through the process
By completing the tasks, you will have:
- made a decision on taking a ‘smart’ gap year
- Created a plan to, set objectives, structure your time and get the most from your year
- Measured your progress towards your objectives
- Funded your ‘smart’ gap year making use of your skills
By completing the tasks, you will have:
- identified the skills you have and create a plan to acquire the skills required by your prospective career
- built a skills portfolio to enable you to complete applications more easily and answer those tricky interview questions
By completing the tasks, you will have:
- Practised networking with people who know
- Learnt how to build rapport
- Started to create a peer network
- A plan for how to network at university / your chosen pathway
By completing the tasks, you will have considered how to manage the transition and protect your mental health, including creating a:
- Financial Support Plan
- Personal Support Plan
By completing the tasks, you will have reviewed the benefits you hoped to gain from your decision including:
- does it live up to your expectations
- best and worst aspects
- how you can improve your experiences
- lessons learnt
Section 14 is for anyone who feels the decision they made if no longer the right one.
In the first instance you will considered how to make your current decision work by identifying the source of the problem and identifying possible solutions. Should this not work for you Section 14 will also support you to make a major change in one or more areas. You will use a systematic approach drawing evidence and the learning from your experiences to determine your next steps in life.
