Section 7: thinking about getting a job and planning your career
What jobs do the people you know do?
At school or college, have you visited any workplaces? If so, what did you enjoy or find out about?
List any work experiences that you have taken part in, including any paid work you may have:
- dates
- roles and responsibilities
- would you be interested in doing a job like this in the future?
What sort of things did you really enjoy about your work experiences?
What did you not enjoy about your work experience?
Have you thought of the kind of job you would like to do when you leave education? If so what ideas do you have?
What jobs are similar to your dream job?
What are your work preferences? Tick all the things you would like:
- busy place
- noisy place
- quiet place
- indoors
- outside
- small team
- large team
- by myself
Workplace environment - what would you like?
- having a supervisor
- working unsupervised
- doing the same thing every day
- doing different things every day
- talking to people
- standing up
- being quiet
- dressing smartly
- wearing a uniform
- wearing casual clothing
- getting dirty
- staying clean
- sitting down/staying in the same place
- doing physical work (such as lifting, carrying, using lots of energy)
Planning your career
Types of work you might be interested in. For each one, consider does it interest you (yes or no) and what do you think you would like about it?
- building/construction
- care work
- beauty/hair/nails
- catering and hospitality
- child care
- gardening
- cleaning
- hospital or medical
- mechanic
- office work/administration
- IT/computing
- Retail/customer service
- Educaction/school work
- sports and leisure
- warehouse work
- entrepreneur/own business
What is important to you in a job?
What motivates you when you think about work?
Do you have any fears or worries about working?