Explore Your Options

Career Planning Tools

Skills Assessment and Career Development

Self Assessment

What skills have I got?

There are a range of self assessment tools to help you clarify your career options and identify suitable jobs. Here we list some great resources to help you identify and develop essential skills for your study, work and personal life:

Download a checklist of skills for you to record your own experience to date. Check list of skills and match to your experience with examples:

Skills Checklist

Options with your subject - lists skills developed throughout your HE course and suggests job options and career areas.

Free online transferrable skills test
This test, produced with government funding and developed by the University of Essex, is a unique 10 minute online test to help people find out what skills they have and how to use them.  The test is aimed at people of Level 3 skills and above (ALevels+) and is particularly relevant for students considering their career path.  The questionnaire goes through 6 key types of skills and a nifty diagram tells you where your strengths and weaknesses lie.

Employability profiles - by subject (UCAS online) Skills developed during the study of each subject. 

Prospects Planner
An online career guidance package designed specifically for HE students. This programme helps you to clarify your ideas and suggests jobs which may suit you.

Includes sections on assessing chances of success and developing an action plan for CVs and applications

Career Management Skills Online

An online programme that allows you to assess your interests, strengths and abilities and match these to career possibilities open to you. It also contains sections on postgraduate study, and applying for jobs.

Select from the following options:

Work through the full module
This starts with a section called Finding Your Profile and helps you to assess your interests, strengths, and abilities by using online self assessment tests to create a personal profile.

Explore Career Options
Matching your interests and abilities with possibilities open to you. Find out about the careers options your studies could lead to. Includes section on self employment, accessing job adverts and recruitment agencies.

Getting A Job
This section gives advice and information on CV's, application forms and interviews.

Windmills Programme

click here to access a free web based programme, with exercises to help you manage your life and career.

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