Choosing a Career
Choosing a career a course or job can raise a number of questions:
Am I doing the best thing?
How will my choices now affect me in the future?
Will I be happy?
Will I earn a lot of money?
Does this job have good prospects?
As we can't predict the future, the answers to such questions will always be imprecise. However, there are things you can do to help you plan your future with more confidence. Some of these are summarised below.
What do you enjoy?
It certainly helps if you enjoy your job as you will probably spend a large proportion of your life working. Think about aspects of working life such as work patterns, whether you prefer to work primarily alone or in a team, dealing with customers or working more with things. How do you want to express your creativity? What aspects of a job are of most important to you, what lifestyle do you want to lead?
There are many things to consider.
The Windmills Programme offers interactive career tools to help you explore these themes
What are you good at?
Doing something you are good at will help you enjoy your working life. Developing these skills further will help you flourish and succeed.
Do you know what is out there?
The problem for many people is not knowing what jobs are out there. Even if you do know what jobs you can do it is important to know how common the jobs are and who are the employers. Research can help and the following links are a good starting point.
Skillset has a library of job profiles for the creative sector
What do arts, creative arts and humanities graduates do?
Gradsouthwest offers graduate jobs and advice on working in the South West of the country
What you want from a career?
This will depend on lots of things including
Your attitude to work
Your personal circumstances
Your personality and background
The prospects planner can help you decide on what jobs would suit you? You will need to register.
Careers Appointments
It may be helpful to discuss some of these issues with your AUCB careers adviser contact careers@aucb.ac.uk or telephone (01202) 363355 for an appointment.
Relevant Links