How to get career ideas

People skills? Are you friendly, enjoy meeting new people and get on with lots of different people?
Practical skills? Do you like using tools and equipment to fix and build things?
Artistic skills? Do you enjoy drawing and designing and making things look good?
Team work? Do you work well with other people and enjoy working in a group?
IT skills? Can you use a range of packages and learn new IT skills easily?
Problem solving? Do you enjoy finding creative ways of tackling tasks and difficulties?
Number skills? Do you like using maths to solve problems or work out what materials you need for practical tasks?

Think about how your skills relate to different career areas.

Think about how your skills relate to different career areas.

Think about which school subjects you enjoy and are good at and think about how they relate to careers. Here are some examples:

Subject	Career Areas
Maths	engineering, finance
English	publishing, journalism
Biology	sport, medicine
History	museums, lecturing
Technology	building trades, engineering
Art	hairdressing, interior design
Languages	travel & tourism, international business
Philosophy & Ethics	teaching, psychology

Think about what you’d like your career to include. Here are some things you might love or hate:

Have a careers interview in school to talk through your options.
Contact local companies and ask if you can spend a morning doing work shadowing (check their insurance will cover this).
Ask around, have you got any contacts with people doing the job of you’d like? If so, talk to them about their work.