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Explore Your Options
Exploring your options involves:
- Self assessment – understanding yourself, your interests and your motivations
- Career research – understanding what you can do with your degree and what's 'out there'
- Career planning – having focus and a strategy keeps you motivated, and enables you to be efficient and effective
Our online career planning workshop guides you through all three areas, giving you practical tips to help you on your way.
You can also download this Career Planning Handout - a useful guide to career planning, covering self-assessment, generating career ideas, information resources, decision making and action planning.
A great way of discovering different career paths and what might suit you, is to use LinkedIn’s Career Explorer. LinkedIn uncovers career paths you may never have thought or heard of, by using its data to match your skills to thousands of job titles.
We run regular webinars covering this topic – click on Events to find out more and book a place.
Resources and Tools
Find out more about the health of the UK graduate labour market and what graduates from your academic discipline go on to do, in the annual 'What Do Graduates Do?' report, produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency:
Career Mag
Also check out the 'Discover' section of TARGETconnect for useful articles and top tips, and NextStepSupport
Self Assessment Tools
A great way of exploring and assessing your professional skills is to try out online tests, questionnaires, assessments and games used by graduate employers in their recruitment.
As a Bangor University graduate you can log into an exclusive Graduates First account, where you have full access to a wide range of these tools, to help you explore and assess:
These resources not only help with your career research and planning, but you’ll also be familiarising yourself with graduate recruitment practices and improving your performance at the same time!
Watch the 1 minute video:
Contact careers@bangor.ac.uk and request a log in to get started!
Identifying your skills
Thinking about the skills and personal qualities you have and how these apply to various job roles is another great way of exploring what careers and work environments you may enjoy and excel in.
16 Personalities is a free personality profiling tool that will give you insights to your personality type and how this translates to your work and personal life.
Go to our Graduate Skills page to find out more, or download our ‘Identifying Skills’ handout for an overview and some top tips.
Click on the images below to download the MyPlus handouts:
Move forward in your career planning
Prospects Career Planner is an online job exploration tool, helping you identify what jobs might suit you based on your skills, motivations and interests.
- Take this short test by Bright Network about your working style and career preferences to receive personalised advice about your recommended next steps.
Career Path Test
Updated August 2023