career decision making
Featured resource: Career action plan
This week’s featured resource is ‘Career action plan’. Most people have more than one career, and for this reason, personal values are important drivers of career decision making. This resource includes individual and group reflections on values, ‘ideal’ careers and planning ahead. If you’re a member of the Developing Employability community, you can access ‘Career action plan’ here. If you haven’t signed up yet, you can do so for free here to access all of our resources and join the conversation.
How much do you know already?
Use this resource with students, to encourage them to audit their skills, knowledge and experience, and to find out how much they know already.
Career story: Changing career
This resource relates the career story of a visual artist who decided not to pursue his visual arts practice as a full-time career. Instead, he developed his own personal training business. This enabled his arts practice to evolve on his own terms, without needing to ‘please the market’. The story is a good example of graduates who apply their knowledge and practices in another sector.
Career story: Following your passion
This career story profiles a musician whose career is underpinned by an overwhelming passion for music. She has explored her interests in diverse ways, combining a portfolio of roles to create a busy and successful practice. Another resource to compliment this one is ‘The Musician’s Lifestyle Quiz‘ and ‘Careers panel: How did you get here?‘.
Career story: Trying things out
This is the story of Danish freelance trumpeter Jeppe Uggerhoej, who talks about how he is building a career in music, the need to be able to perform in different genres, and trying different things to work out what he might want to do in the longer term. Another resource to compliment this one is ‘Careers panel: How did you get here?‘.
Career story: Trying things out
This is the story of Danish freelance trumpeter Jeppe Uggerhoej, who talks about how he is building a career in music, the need to be able to perform in different genres, and trying different things to work out what he might want to do in the longer term.
What’s your career vision?
This tool encourages students to conceptualise career as a multi-faceted concept by considering time, money, vision and identity.
How to balance life and work
In this resource, students consider what is important to them and consider their preferred relationship with work.
Resource set: Making the commitment to pursue a career
This resource set introduces the concept of identity development and emphasises that this is an ongoing process. The set encourages learners to ask questions and resist the pressure to make a finite decision about their futue lives and work. The tool includes a learning guide for educators, a career story from music, a guided reflection tool, and an identity quiz.
Career story: Making the commitment to pursue a career
In this career story, trumpeter Dani Rich describes is an essential stage of personal and professional identity formation; she challenged her identity.
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