Tips to get ready for your career

Before you start the search for your career look back at the information you have gathered about

1. yourself: your skills, knowledge, constraints, interests and values
2. your chosen occupation(s): entry requirements, skills required, is more training needed?

Now you need to put together the information you have gathered about the yourself and the career area.

1. Can you meet the requirements of the job?
2. Will the career you're considering meet your needs?
3. Look at the pros and cons and significant implications. Go back to Look at your career needs and ensure that all your requirements can be met.
4. Incorporate this information in your Career options grid.
5. Try to formulate a plan that includes at least one contingency career area.
6. Discuss your plans with your career mentor, family members, Careers Advisers who will give you an objective view of the realism and practicality of your ideas.
7. Check out any doubts that your advisers may raise and satisfy yourself before proceeding with a career change.

If you are satisfied yourself with a matching career with your interests, abilities, skills, knowledge, values and constraints, you can start to make a careers action plan detailing the actions you need to take in order to enter that career.

Go to Information resources for links to useful sources in aiding your decision-making.

Good luck in implementing your career plans!