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Get started with Career Planning
Exploring and making career choices can be challenging. At the Career Zone, we’re here to support you through this process and help you understand the steps you can take to feel more confident and prepared for the decisions.
We’ve developed a four-stage approach to guide you through your career planning and decision-making. Each stage includes helpful resources and schemes to support you. We recommend starting with Reflect, then moving through Explore, Focus, and Apply, but you can also move straight to the stage that best matches where you are right now.
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Understanding your wants and preferences and knowing your strengths is the first step to explore the kinds of careers you will find rewarding. Be curious and reflect on your interests, values and motivations and consider why these are important to you. List the skills you enjoy using. As you develop a greater level of self-awareness, so will your ideas about future possibilities grow. Use every opportunity to learn more about yourself.
Our Reflect on yourself pages will help you to examine what interests you, what your strengths, skills, preferences, values and motivations are and how this can help you with your career planning.
Exploring your options involves expanding your knowledge of the routes and pathways into occupations, sectors, and organisations that may be of interest to you. Maybe you are considering self-employment. Wherever your curiosity takes you it is important to understand if postgraduate study or other professional development qualifications are required. Explore the routes into a career and read about the realities, challenges and skills require to help you understand if that working role will meet with your expectations and be something you enjoy.
Look at our Employment Sector pages. Consider attending Alumni events & Careers Fairs to create opportunities to have career conversations. Find Career mentors or make useful connections on LinkedIn. With our Explore your options pages there is plenty of suggestions to help you take those next steps.
With a better understanding of your options, it will be possible to see some of the practical ways that you can begin to develop further your experiences. Finding placements, internships or other experiential learning opportunities such as volunteering or active involvement in clubs and societies can help you to really understand more about the working environments that may suit you. Growing your experiences not only gives you more to add to your CV but can also inform your decisions.
On our Focus on your next step pages, you can find resources to help with job search, internships, volunteering, employability schemes and professional development opportunities. You can also read more about approaches to making decisions and career action planning. Not sure where to start then why not meet with a Careers Consultant to explore your thoughts.
Whether applying for a graduate scheme or internship or looking and applying for casual work, the Career Zone is here to support. Our dedicated Employability Advisers can help you with applications and CV checks. We know that it can be difficult to stand out among a sea of applicants, so if you are applying for postgraduate study or a job all our resources can help you. Want help with Applying for opportunities then start with these pages.