Find Your Career Interest

Before you start looking for a job, think about your career first. Choosing a career means more than finding a means of making a living. Your work will determine many aspects of your daily activities, so you are in fact choosing your future way of life.

Before you start your job search, you have to take into consideration a wide range of factors:

  • How do you currently spend your time and energy?
  • What do you enjoy doing and what you are good at?
  • What do you value most : developing your potential, becoming an expert, serving the community, taking care of your family and friends, making a lot of money or gaining status and prestige?

The first step of career planning is to assess your interests, values, skills and personality traits. Self assessment is a process by which you learn more about yourself. A good self understanding can help you determine which occupations and work situations could better fit you. DON'T be forced by the market to take up jobs you don't like. Build your career around your interest and abilities.

There are many assessment tools. You can choose a self-directed tool or one that requires interpretive assistance.

Self-Directed - self-administered, self-scored and self-interpreted inventory and assessment tools that can help you identify some occupationally related interests.

Prospects Planner Prospects Planner helps you clarify your ideas. It suggests what jobs might suit you.

Assessment Requiring Interpretive Assistance - assessment tools that require you to review results with our Counsellor or a qualified trainer.

Type Fee(for testing materials) Purpose
MBTI® (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) HK$150(paper and pencil questionnaire and face-to-face debriefing) It is a psychometric instrument designed to measure an individual's preferences for perceiving and decision making, personality type and cognitive style. More about MBTI
Chinese Personality at Work HK$200 (web-based questionnaire and face-to-face debriefing) It is a questionnaire for the objective assessment of personality characteristics in a work setting. It is developed by Chinese for use among the Chinese. More about CPW

Prospects Planner

Prospects Planner is an invaluable tool to find the right kind of job for you! It is a web-based career guidance system designed to help you with your career planning. It helps you to:

  • generate new job ideas and check out your existing ideas
  • identify your skills and find out what motivates you in a job
  • see how these skills match the jobs you are considering
  • research your chosen jobs in more details and decide on the right choices for you

It can be used at any stage in your career. It can help you decide your first steps or review your situation at some later date. The system was designed for those who are, or have been, in higher education.

Prospects Planner allows you to use personal information about your skills and preferences to generate and check out ideas and match them against job information. Exploring and making decisions about jobs often involve revisiting and adding to this information over a period of time.

You'll need to have a My Prospects account to use Prospects Planner so you can save your work and come back later. Registration is simple and everything is confidential. It sets up a personal space for you to save this information and work on it from anywhere, at anytime.

For more details, please go to http://www.prospects.ac.uk/links/Pplanner

Career Planning Resources