Career planning
Planning your career is something you can start no matter where you are in your programme of study. To make this ongoing process more manageable, this section will introduce you to a range of tools and practical support, no matter if you’re considering further study or moving into industry.
Learn about the right way to research different opportunities and the mapping tool called Plan:Me in the short video opposite. You can also explore the career journey planners to get inspiration and ideas of what you could be doing in your year of study.
Planning your career
There is no one right way to choose your career and when you’re busy at university, you find career planning is something you can’t do continuously.
To help you begin and keep track of where you are with your career planning, it is useful to create a map or timeline. This will be your Plan: Me. It's like a research project, where you have a hypothesis that you might enjoy a job/programme of study and then you formulate a series of actions to help you build information about each option until you know enough to get a result. The video above explains this more fully and the rest of the Plan your career section expands on these elements. Here are some steps to get you started.
- Write your plan down to make it real
- Use the ideas from the self-reflection webpages to get you started
- Start with any ideas you have about what you’d like to do
- Base your actions on questions you have about each idea
- Add check-in points into your plan so you keep the momentum going
Career planning
- Make a place to keep everything
- How will you know what you want?
- What are your current ideas?
- How will you research your ideas
- Map it out
- Keep up the momentum