SCAN Stage 1: Career self-assessment
Sound career planning is underpinned by honest and accurate self-assessment. By constructing a clearer understanding of your abilities and goals, you will be able to make career choices that are both attainable and sustainable. Detailed Self-assessment will also allow you to produce more credible, coherent applications and answers to interview questions.
A thorough self-assessment should consider the following types of questions:
- what are my work values (the core aspects of work that are most important)?
- what are my key strengths, skills and abilities?
- what do I find stressful or challenging in work?
- what are my interests (both in work and outside)?
- who are my role models in a working context – in what manner would I like to be seen to work?
- what type of work best suits my personality?
The information and exercises in this section will allow you to build a picture of what is important to you in your work and career and generate key questions in defining which areas are non-negotiable and which you are willing to compromise on when moving to explore your career options in more detail.
We recommend that you work through the different sections below. Following this section you can move onto the next step ‘Career Exploration’ where the focus is on how you can research your career options in more detail including links to key web resources for specialty exploration and F3 options.
Self Awareness Exercises
Identifying strengths & achievements
Identifying core values and preferences
Booking a 1-2-1 appointment
It can be useful to discuss your thoughts and ideas with a Careers Advisor to gain further clarity. Request for an appointment.
