Which career might suit you?

Use some of these resources and tools to find out which career might suit you.

• Prospects planner helps you match your skills, interests and motivations to occupations, or see the online personality assessments. Registration is free.
• The Next Step website contains a career skills assessment tool, which matches your skills and interests to opportunities in the workplace. Go to the 'Skills Health Check' section under 'Planning your Career'.
• The art of building windmills has an interactive Life Fitness Check. You’ll find this useful if you want to identify your skills, values and motivations and want to progress your career.
• Adult Directions is a tool available to OU students which helps you to identify potential career options whatever your level of study. The occupational information in this resource focuses mainly on opportunities in England and Wales. You will need your OU computer username and password to access this tool. For OU students elsewhere, once you have used the tool, you can research career options on the finding out about jobs page of the website.
• The TARGETjobs Graduate Careers Report is an online tool which can help you match your abilities against possible career paths and create an action plan to build on your skills and strengths. You can also download and print off your report.
• The 'Adult Zone' of the PlanIT Plus website contains 'Encore', a career interest tool to help those who want to plan their career in Scotland and identify career options that match their interests.
• Careers Portal is a resource for those who want to plan their career in Ireland. Click on 'Self Assessment' to access their personal development resources.
• Another useful resource for students in Ireland is the Gradireland Careers Report which can help you in choosing a graduate career or deciding where to start.