The importance of knowing yourself
The better you know yourself, the more positive and confident you will feel.
Knowing yourself can help you:
- Choose subjects at school that you are good at and will enjoy
- Explore different career options that will suit you
- Make decisions about what you are going to do when you finish school
About you
Thinking about yourself, write down:
- What you like to do in your spare time
- Your hobbies and interests
- How you would describe yourself
Careers that suit you can be based off:
Beliefs and values
Skills and strengths
Hobbies and interests
Personality types
The 16 personalities test is a personality inventory that identifies people as having one of 16 personality types based on their answers to 93 questions.
The test assesses traits such as introversion vs. extroversion, intuition vs. sensing, thinking vs. feeling, and judging vs. perceiving.
The goal of the test is to allow respondents to explore and understand their own personalities, including their likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, possible career preferences, and compatibility with other people.
Your personality
Thinking about yourself, write down:
- Your personality type and what might be the second
- Brainstorm what careers would suit your personality type
- Why these careers would suit you
Explore your career
Using the information about yourself, explore myfuture.
- First, you'll need to create an account. If you already have one, you can log in.
- Go to My career profile.
- Complete the Interests activity and view your results
Your results
Using your results, think about:
- What are your top three career interests?
- Are they in line with your personality type?
- Do these careers interest you?
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