“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
DISCOVER YOUR PERSONALITY
You have to understand yourself and know your strengths.
We have a commitment to ensure that our students receive the best support so that they can be able to thrive and achieve academically. Our Student Services team are all trained to work with young people and as part of the team we have other students support the application process.
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
LAO TZU
CHOOSE YOUR INTEREST
Grasping your career interests (that is, your passions and enthusiasms) is an important key to career satisfaction: the areas and activities that you like are what motivate you in the long run. Identifying your career interests isn’t always easy, which is why people sometimes take a job without thinking about whether they actually like it or find it interesting. But here’s the thing: it inevitably leads to burnout which itself could lead to anxiety and depression.
Individual career interests, and work environments as well, can be grouped into some combination of six broad areas. These categories are widely used in career inventories and in collections of career information; knowing your interest areas can point you in helpful directions in your career exploration. The six areas are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional that helps you to identify and discover.
VALUE YOUR SELF
Your career values represent the beliefs you have about what is important in your work, and what makes it meaningful to you. Simply put, your career values are what steer and drive you in your professional career. These values will help when you decide on a potential company or position for employment. Values are those enduring characteristics or aspects of life and work that we consider important, even essential, to our satisfaction. What motivates you and would make a career worthwhile? In other words, what do you really care about?
FIND YOUR SKILLS
Skills and abilities are tasks that you naturally do well, talents and strengths that you bring to the table as a student and/or employee. These include natural capabilities you’ve always had, in addition to specific knowledge and skills you’ve acquired through experience and training. Having a clear understanding of your strongest skill sets and how you’d like to use them in your work will allow you to choose majors, internships and career fields that best utilize your strengths.
