Career Planning

https://icity.bcu.ac.uk/Student-Services/Careers-and-job-prospects/Know-Yourself

https://icity.bcu.ac.uk/Document/Careers-handout-Psychometric-Tests-Sept-2015

See a careers consultant
Alex Carroll - Careers Consultant
Are you self-aware?
Discuss in pairs (5 mins):

What does self-awareness mean to you?
Additional Resources
https://www.prospects.ac.uk
https://icity.bcu.ac.uk
https://icity.bcu.ac.uk/student-services/careers-and-job-prospects/Who-else-can-help/Information-and-Resources

www.bcu.ac.uk/askus - iASK portal
https://icity.bcu.ac.uk/Document/Careers-handout-Psychometric-Tests-Sept-2015

Content of Session
The concept of ‘career planning'
Increasing self-awareness
Goal setting
Where do you see yourself in X years time?
Planning your networking
Additional useful resources

Bonus: What if money was no object?

A Career Planning Model
Who Am I? and Where Am I Going?
Are you...
Self-Assessment
Knowing the '
product
' before you sell it
Networking
It's not whom you know...it's who knows
YOU
How can you increase self-awareness?
Discussion: 5 mins

What is networking?

How can you network?

What are the benefits?

Self-Assessment Resources
Prospects Planner
Goal-Setting
A useful way of making goals more powerful is to use the SMART mnemonic:

S
– Specific (or Significant).
M
– Measurable (or Meaningful).
A
– Attainable (or Action-Oriented).
R
– Relevant (or Rewarding).
T
– Time-bound (or Trackable).

Where do you want to be in 10 years? 5 years? 2 years? 1 year?

How will you know if you have stayed on track?
Be an expert in your career area
Remind yourself why you are interested in this career, and this employer: enthusiasm is VERY important.
Prepare your questions!
Get Experience
Experience feeds into all
other areas of career planning.
Job Hunting
How do you know your strengths and weaknesses if you haven't put them to the test?
It can help you discover which elements of working life you love/hate
Soft & Hard Skills
Determination
and Effort
Curiosity
Job Knowledge
The Career Tree of
Tenuous Metaphors
Decision Time!
Self Knowledge
Om nom...yummy Job
10 Years
5 years
2 years
1 year
Cat:
Where are you going?
Alice:
Which way should I go?
Cat:
That depends on where you are going.
Alice:
I don’t know.
Cat:
Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
Om nom nom...
Tasty Job!