Knowing How I Make Decisions

If you know yourself and the options open to you, the next step is to make your career decision. To do this, you need to relate your self-knowledge to the knowledge you have gained about your options. But how?

Drawing up the shortlist

• If you've used Prospects Planner already, you will have gone some way towards this: both systems offer you a systematic way of defining your own interests, skills, and motivations or values and matching these to a list of relevant occupations.

Decision making styles

• An important thing to consider is how you have made major decisions in your life so far. If you have successfully made such decision in the past, the method you used then may apply to your present decision-making ,too. If your past decision making process was not successful, however, you may want to seek out an alternative approach. Click here for some examples.

Decision Making Tools

• There are several systematic decision making tools available on the Web, but they may not always suit your style. You can also get help from a Career Planning Workshop on decision learning or career decision making.

Getting More Help

To access more resources or to get help in deciding which resources or methods would work best for you, come to the Career Development Centre and speak to a careers adviser. They are trained to help people think through the issues in this kind of decision making.

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