You have skills and strengths. We all do. The aim of this session is for you to feel confident in what you can do and excited about how you can use them. If you don’t know your skills and strengths already, this session will help you identify and celebrate them. At the beginning this worksheet will be empty but by the end you are going to have filled it with skills and strengths and feel confident about what you can do and offer! If you do know some of your skills and strengths, I will help you reflect on them and think about how you want to use them going forward.

Do you know what is really important to you? Identifying and articulating your values and drivers can give you a guiding light by which to make decisions and to evaluate whether your values are being served. Getting really clear on what matters to you can help you understand why some roles, organisations, and environments suit you better than others. Bringing them into the light will help you with future career decisions.

Have you ever wondered what your purpose might be? Or wished your work held more meaning for you? We spend on average 80,000 hours at work in our lifetime, so it makes sense to make them count. Plus research has shown that having a sense of purpose can increase our motivation levels, productivity, wellbeing, and happiness – a win win!
In this session, we can explore what matters to you and why, and how you might use your time at work to help and contribute in a meaningful way. Finding your purpose might not happen immediately or overnight, but there’s no better time to start exploring what it might be!

What do you actually want and need from your work? Can you confidently name all your deal makers and deal breakers? If not, this session will help you to write a clear shopping list of the factors that you want from your next role. We’ll be looking into what motivates you, what gives you job satisfaction, and the kind of balance you want to achieve in your life. By the end of the session, you’ll have a clearer vision on what you need and want from your time spent at work.

When you think about what you could do in future, what springs to mind? In this session we’ll be looking into a wide range of options including:

• those you’ve already considered
• ideas that link to your skills, values, and motivations, and
• brand new options from job families and career quizzes

We’ll also discuss how you feel about each option, and whether there are any ideas you’d like to explore further.

Do you need some information to help you make the right decision, but don’t know where to find it? Are you wondering where to go and what to do to help you find things out? This session will help you to get clear on what you want and need to know and work out how to find the answers you need. We’ll cover how to find trusted sources of labour market information and how to use your network to find out the information you need. We’ll also cover informational interviews as a way to get the info you need and strengthen relationships with people who can help.

You will make many decisions over the course of your career. It’s likely that you have already made many. For example, where to study, what to study, and whether to apply for or accept a particular job. There will be many more decisions ahead. Decision-making is a key career management skill and this session will help you reflect on how you make decisions, whether your approach is working for you, and whether you might do the same or different in future. We can also try a couple of decision-making exercises that can help you engage your rational thoughts, instincts. and emotions – these all have a role to play in your decisions.