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Welcome to the reception at our virtual career management centre!

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Guest reception facilities include....

Finding your career niche

This is a self directed e-learning course of five sessions - delivered by email and aiming to raise your awareness of the importance of taking a proactive approach to your career planning. The course aims to empower individuals to take the reigns of their own career chariot. Suitable for all ages and specialities.

Users report back with comments like

I never realised quite how much there was I could do for my career entirely by myself. Nobody tells you these things are important.

There is a lot more planning needed and it looks like this takes more hours than I expected but it is great to know it is relatively simple to do

I feel my attitude to my career has totally changed - it feels less like a "career in waiting" and more like a "career speedboat" that I myself need to put diesel into if I want it to start.

I am sad I hadn't read this ten years ago!

It raised a number of issues that, whilst difficult to deal with, are I believe very important to my life as well as career.

Ask career mentor

This is a way of asking about a career concern and to receive some brief personalised advice and comments . We also advise on which of our facilities might be most appropriate for you.

Please note this is not a service for asking specific careers information like Royal College examination requirements or the telephone number of the Faculty of Occupational Health.Links to these will soon be provided in our A-Z section of the library but a google search and going directly to the "horses mouth" is likely to get you the best answer anyway (as career "information" changes rapidly - and what we help with is more career planning, career decision making, career choice or career diversification).

Sample workbook

The "Career Workbook" lies at the core of any of our personalised career guidance facilities. Yet many users state that merely the act of filling it in assists the clarity of career thinking. The workbook in hard copy, pdf copy or electronic format - is available for purchase. If you register as a guest you can obtain a precis "shortened" pdf sample copy . This cannot be used to join a Career Review as it is not the full version but it will give you a good idea of what to expect.

Define your current situation with this one page career questionnaire

Which of the career situations we most commonly see most resemble your own?

Depression questionnaire

Work affects mood and vice versa - sometimes adversely. Effective career planning can not take place if there is a need for action to improve mood or even treatment. Try one of these questionnaires if you think your decision making might be affected by low mood.

Personality test

Learn more about your character before making any career decisions. This link takes you to a Jung/Myers-Briggs typology exercise online. This is not a substitute for a full Myers Briggs test but it will give you some idea how it goes about classifying the 16 different personality types.

Career management factsheets

... including one page factsheets on career planning, career choice/ decision , career plateau in addition to "Application forms - a fair guide" a five page outline of how to approach the prose questions in application forms.

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