Prospects Career Planner

This is a job exploration tool that can help you to generate job ideas, compare different career pathways and relate job roles to your skills, motivations and interests. Prospects Planner is not designed to tell you what you should do but it will help to develop your comprehension of the relationship between your strengths and skills and those required in different job roles. Career choice is a complicated process that takes time and which should, if done thoroughly, take into account a broad range of variables. The planner is a means of both starting and supporting this process.

Using Career Prospects Planner

The Planner is a very flexible tool. There is no set route for using this package and there is no necessity to complete every section in one sitting. You can save your progress at any stage but in order to maximise the effectiveness of Prospects Career Planner it is essential that you take sufficient time to engage in the process thoroughly. It is also key to reflect on the results and where appropriate share the results, and your feelings about them, with one of the Careers Advisers at Durham University.

Prospects Career Planner offers a range of career and self exploration tools:

• Access my personal profiles
• My types of job
• Add a type of job
• Improving the match
• Report
• What can I do next

Prospects Career Planner can be accessed through the Prospects website. It is necessary to register with Prospects and create your own account. This, however, is a simple, free and confidential process.