In this section, you will consider some of your own characteristics that might affect the direction your career takes in the future.

It’s likely you have carried out self-awareness exercises before, perhaps as part of careers education. For that reason, we will concentrate here on some different approaches that you may not have come across before. Some may work better for you than others. Those that seem most alien to you – that take you out of your ‘comfort zone’ – are the ones most likely to help. Perhaps one of these will get you moving or provide some important new insight for you.

What’s unique about you?

Most of us can satisfy employers that we have the general skills and qualities required for a variety of jobs. But what marks us out as different from the rest?

What are you like?

Rather than skills, values or interests, some have argued that understanding you personality should be central to career decisions. How can you understand your personality and what it means to your career?

Rather than skills, values or interests, some have argued that understanding you personality should be central to career decisions. How can you understand your personality and what it means to your career?

What’s your dream?

Motivation is important to career. Sometimes people succeed because of the strength of their motivation rather than their abilities. What really motivates you?

What’s your mission?

Aside from the obvious need to earn a living, what is the wider significance of the work you do or want to do?

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