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The best way to find a career, age 14 – 16

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A powerful but easy-to-use programme that aligns the abilities and interests of students ages 14-16 with potential career paths, and identifies the A Level, T Level, BTEC and IB subject choices needed to reach them.

Inspire them to take responsibility

MyCareerChoices gives every student the foundation they need for career exploration. The record of their skills, experience and job research that they build through their online portal (MyFutureJourney), provides valuable insights to assist with writing powerful personal statements and creating stand-out CVs, as well as review information which can help them to prepare for future interviews and assessments.

Leave no opportunity undiscovered

Our rigorous, psychometrically validated interest and aptitude tests allow students to understand their strengths and match them to future career paths.

Over 400 job profiles provide a detailed overview of the skills and study paths needed to succeed in every career they may consider.

Track student progress

Our platform provides a hub where teachers, careers advisors and students can plan, progress and discuss career exploration. Teachers can set tasks and deadlines to encourage independent careers research and track progress against goals set.

An interactive interface which saves you time by letting students self-manage their own careers research.

An intuitive administration portal that can be personalised for your school’s needs.

Training for all staff, so that they can utilise the platform’s full functionality.

A single hub where you can monitor and manage students, view their results and track their research.

Friendly support and guidance from our customer service team.

A programme that contributes to the Gatsby benchmarks of good career guidance.

Supporting resources accessible for all staff members in the Resource Library.

Personal Reflection and Action Plan pages to instigate concentrated discussion with students and parents.

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For Students

An interest-based questionnaire and norm-referenced aptitude tests to uncover student’s interests and abilities, and how those link to potential career areas.

In-depth analysis of high interest career areas and how these will relate to post-16 subject choices.

A single portal, MyFutureJourney, where students can record all careers research, assessments, and relevant work experience.

Personalised careers report available online or as a downloadable pdf.

WORKBRIEF, our unique and comprehensive careers directory incorporating over 400 job descriptions to help students investigate a wide range of career choices.

Videos on over 50 career areas, bringing future aspirations to life.

Personal Reflection and Action Plan pages to instigate concentrated discussion with staff and advisers.

Supporting students, supporting you

Our mission is to ensure you deliver an exceptional careers programme for every student. That’s why our schools support team are on hand to help you set up and get the most out of our platform and the resources, brochures and videos which bring it to life.

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Career Quiz | The Princeton Review

In order for us to estimate your personal Interests and Usual Style, you will first need to answer a series of questions. Read each pair of phrases below and decide which one of the two most describes you, then select the radio button next to that phrase.

As you make your choices, assume that all jobs are of equal pay and prestige. When you have answered each of the questions, click "Continue" to go on. There are 24 total questions.

#1.

	I would rather be a wildlife expert.
	I would rather be a public relations professional.

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#2.

	I would rather be a company controller.
	I would rather be a TV news anchor.

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#3.

	I would rather be a tax lawyer.
	I would rather be a newspaper editor.

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#4.

	I would rather be an auditor.
	I would rather be a musician.

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#5.

	I would rather be a production manager.
	I would rather be an advertising manager.

#6.

	I would rather be an accounting manager.
	I would rather be a history professor.

#7.

	I would rather be a bookkeeper.
	I would rather be an electrician.

#8.

	I would rather be a writer.
	I would rather be an elected official.

#9.

	I would rather be a clerical worker.
	I would rather be a carpenter.

#10.

	I would rather be a payroll manager.
	I would rather be a manager of engineering.

#11.

	I would rather be an audit manager.
	I would rather be a safety manager.

#12.

	I would rather be an artist.
	I would rather be a salesperson.

#13.

	I am usually patient when I have to wait on an appointment.
	I get restless when I have to wait on an appointment.

#14.

	It is easy to laugh at one's little social errors or "faux pas"
	It is hard to laugh at one's little social errors or "faux pas".

#15.

	It is wise to make it known if someone is doing something that bothers you.
	It is wise to remain silent if someone is doing something that bothers you.

#16.

	It's not really OK to argue with others even when you know you are right.
	It's OK to argue with others when you know you are right.

#17.

	I like to bargain to get a good price.
	I don't like to have to bargain to get a good price.

#18.

	It is easy to be outgoing and sociable at a party with strangers.
	It is hard to be outgoing and sociable at a party with strangers.

#19.

	I would read the instructions first when putting a new toy together for a child.
	I would just "jump in" and start putting a new toy together for a child.

#20.

	It is usually best to be pleasant and let others decide if your ideas are worth accepting.
	It is usually best to be forceful and "sell" your ideas to others.

#21.

	I usually like to work cautiously.
	I usually like to work fast.

#22.

	Generally I prefer to work quietly with a minimum of wasted movement.
	Generally I prefer to move around and burn some energy while I work.

#23.

	I don't like to have to persuade others to accept my ideas when there is a strong forceful opposition or argument from others.
	I like to sell and promote my ideas with others even when it takes some argument.

#24.

	It is better to listen carefully and be sure you understand when topics are being discussed.
	It is better to speak up quickly and be heard when topics are being discussed.

Quiz Results

After you complete The Princeton Review Career Quiz we will show you careers that match the "style" and "interest" colors you created. The colors have particular meanings:

Red: Expediting
Green: Communicating
Blue: Planning
Yellow: Administrating

Your Interest

"Interests" describe the types of activities that you are drawn to; these will need to be present in a job or career that you are considering if you are to stay motivated. It is important to note that interest in an activity does not necessarily indicate skill.

People with yellow interests like job responsibilities that include organizing and systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable, and objective. People with yellow Interests enjoy activities that include: ordering, numbering, scheduling, systematizing, preserving, maintaining, measuring, specifying details, and archiving, which often lead to work in research, banking, accounting, systems analysis, tax law, finance, government work, and engineering.
People with green interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, sales, promotions, and group or personal contact. People with green Interests enjoy activities that include: motivating, mediating, selling, influencing, consensus building, persuading, delegating authority, entertaining, and lobbying. These Interests often lead to work in marketing, advertising, training, therapy, consulting, teaching, law, and public relations.
People with blue interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet types of activities. Blue Interests include abstracting, theorizing, designing, writing, reflecting, and originating, which often lead to work in editing, teaching, composing, inventing, mediating, clergy, and writing.
People with red interests like hands-on / problem solving job responsibilities and professions that involve practical, technical, and objective activities. Red Interests include: building, implementing, organizing, producing, and delegating, which often lead to work in manufacturing, managing, directing, small business owning, and surgery.

Your Style

"Style" describes the strengths that you could bring to a work environment when you are at your best. This is the way you like to get results. A work environment in which your strengths are appreciated is a big part of career satisfaction.

People with yellow styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is orderly and planned to meet a known schedule. They prefer to work where things get done with a minimum of interpretation and unexpected change. People with a yellow style tend to be orderly, cautious, structured, loyal, systematic, solitary, methodical, and organized, and usually thrive in a research-oriented, predictable, established, controlled, measurable, orderly environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.
People with green styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is outgoing. They prefer to work where things get done with minimal analysis and where persuasion is well received by others. People with green styles tend to be spontaneous, talkative, personal, enthusiastic, convincing, risk-taking, and competitive, and usually thrive in a team-oriented, adventurous, informal, innovative, big picture-oriented, varied environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.
People with blue styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is supportive and helpful to others with a minimum of confrontation. They prefer to work where they have time to think things through before acting. People with blue style tend to be insightful, reflective, selectively sociable, creative, thoughtful, emotional, imaginative, and sensitive. Usually they thrive in a cutting edge, informally paced, future-oriented environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.
People with red styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is action-oriented and practical. They prefer to work where things happen quickly and results are seen immediately. People with red styles tend to be straightforward, assertive, logical, personable, authoritative, friendly, direct, and resourceful, and usually thrive in a self-structured, high-pressured, hierarchical, production-oriented, competitive environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.

Recommended Careers

Yellow — People with yellow Interests like job responsibilities that include organizing and systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable, and objective. People with yellow Interests enjoy activities that include: ordering, numbering, scheduling, systematizing, preserving, maintaining, measuring, specifying details, and archiving, which often lead to work in research, banking, accounting, systems analysis, tax law, finance, government work, and engineering.

Green — People with green Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, sales, promotions, and group or personal contact. People with green Interests enjoy activities that include: motivating, mediating, selling, influencing, consensus building, persuading, delegating authority, entertaining, and lobbying. These Interests often lead to work in marketing, advertising, training, therapy, consulting, teaching, law, and public relations.

Blue — People with blue Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet types of activities. Blue Interests include abstracting, theorizing, designing, writing, reflecting, and originating, which often lead to work in editing, teaching, composing, inventing, mediating, clergy, and writing.

Red — People with red Interests like hands-on / problem solving job responsibilities and professions that involve practical, technical, and objective activities. Red Interests include: building, implementing, organizing, producing, and delegating, which often lead to work in manufacturing, managing, directing, small business owning, and surgery.

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Skip My career: About the project

The My Career platform will help you increase your self-confidence and learn:

How to search for a job so that the job will find you

How to choose what suits you best

How to manage your existing knowledge and skills

How to find motivation to search for a job

Use the prospects and opportunities for professional growth

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Career guidance for schoolchildren

Becoming a specialist, building a career are worthy goals. How to reach them? Start with a career guidance course. He does not insure against mistakes, but explains how to approach the matter wisely so that the choice of profession becomes a harbinger of success. The course contains basic knowledge about employment, the labor market, reveals the main prospects for professional growth. One of the tests, for example, will help determine external incentives and internal motives when choosing a profession. Thanks to checks within the course, new knowledge is better absorbed. Good luck!

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Time Management

Where to find time and will have time? How to optimize your activities? What is a time control system? How to make a plan for a year and a day? What is a goal and how to achieve it? Don't know the answer to these questions? This course is for you!

How to start your own business

Office work or shift work is not for everyone. The reasons may be different: someone lacks perseverance, someone is not ready to take on high physical and psychological stress, someone is interested in part-time employment, and someone considers such work not quite creative. Your own business comes to the rescue, which allows you to work on a flexible schedule and develop your own ideas, without looking back at the opinion of the leader. This course will tell you how to organize it.

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Employment for people with disabilities

Every day, millions of people around the world are looking for work. Various reasons push them to this, but the result directly depends on how well this process was thought out and planned. For a person with a disability, the process of finding a job is in many ways similar to the employment of any other person, but there are many features. This is a lack of understanding on the part of employers associated with existing stereotypes about people with disabilities, and the unsuitability of the environment, communication problems, and objective health limitations. But despite this, most people with disabilities are personally active, looking for and using all possible ways for employment. The Job Seekers Club program is designed to help you find a job, it will give recommendations and tell you about the rules for writing a resume, passing interviews and much more.

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Success is achieved by those who can prove their competitiveness in the labor market. Who knows how to understand what qualities are important to the employer and present themselves favorably. Those who do not stop in professional development learn to speak simply and clearly, plan their future and personal budget, and defend their rights.

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Motives for choosing a profession

Why are you inclined towards a particular profession, what motivates you? Is it only money? Success? Desire to give joy? Understanding your motives for choosing a profession is confidence, peace of mind and material well-being in adulthood.

What are you really like?

Do you know what you really are? No one knows this, but it's still interesting to try to grow a tree and pick a magical fruit from it, which contains your portrait inside. Answer questions to get water. Fill up the watering can before the time runs out.

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Increase your competitiveness

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Plan your future and personal budget

Manage your time

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Essay Choosing a profession reasoning

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Choosing a Profession

In every person's life there comes a moment when you need to make an important life choice - to choose a profession. I thought long and hard about where my heart lies. How difficult it is at such a young age to make a conscious choice of your future work. I considered such options as a design engineer and a doctor. Both professions were interesting to me, but still, over time, I decided.

I had problems with my teeth - multiple caries, my mother made me an appointment with a dentist. To a well-groomed, beautiful woman in a white coat, in sterile gloves, in a clean spacious office, to Elena Vadimovna, who immediately made an impression on me. Although I was terribly afraid of dentists at school, I wanted to trust this specialist. Elena Vadimovna examined the oral cavity, made notes of the dental formula of those teeth that needed to be cured, consulted me, and selected the right oral care. And so I began to undergo treatment with this dentist, at one time we treated one tooth, the cases were of varying complexity, my treatment took about six months. I went to every visit to the dentist like a holiday, I really liked the atmosphere, people in white coats, the treatment was painless under anesthesia, I was very interested in examining dental instruments.

Thanks to Elena Vadimovna, I was inspired by this profession! I realized that I want to be useful to people, I want to help, save people from pain, discomfort, aesthetic defects. I saw Elena Vadimovna being visited by satisfied patients who have completed treatment, give gifts, say sincere words of gratitude. Of course, I was impressed, but my choice of profession was not made for commercial purposes. I just want to be needed, and that the work brings pleasure!

When I decided exactly on my future profession, I started looking for a medical university in my city, I found out what subjects are needed for admission - this is the Russian language, chemistry and biology. Now I know exactly what subjects I need to focus on in order to do well in exams and enter a medical university. And recently I signed up for the library, where I found many interesting books about dentistry in simple language.

I am very happy that I have decided on my future profession - dentist-therapist. I will treat my relatives and relatives, friends and acquaintances, my patients. And I will know for sure that I am of benefit to this world, which means that the profession is chosen correctly.

Option 2

Everyone has to choose a profession once in their life. Everyone thinks about who he will become in the future, what to do. Recently, this issue has not become less relevant, despite the development of mankind, it is still difficult to find a well-paid job that everyone will like. And vice versa - sometimes there is a good job, but you just won’t take it because it is so popular that it will soon become unnecessary.

This question usually arises among teenagers from 14 to 16 years old, when they do not know where to go in high school. Parents often come to the rescue - they will tell you where to go, who is currently studying. Sometimes they can also give advice regardless of the wishes of their child, in which case a person should disobey his parents, giving several arguments.

This decision is very important, because the whole future career depends on this moment of her choice. Do not underestimate the profession or assume that it can be changed at any time. A person's work will accompany him for more than half of his life and is a very important part of his happiness.

Also, material profit is very important, because it will be difficult even to go on vacation when there is not enough money, and rest is a very important part of work. This much-desired vacation will help restore productivity and enjoyment at work.

What should you pay attention to when choosing a profession? Important aspects will be the following: salary, vacation schedule, your vocation. Working just for the money will be pretty easy at first, but after a month you can come to the conclusion that such work is not worth the time spent on it. It will be much better to work for pleasure, then you won’t have to spend a lot of money on vacation.

You should also pay attention to the relevance of the profession. Some types of work are low paid because there are many specialists in that field and there is a large demand for employment, and the work itself is less than expected.

In conclusion, it should be said that the choice of a profession, as already mentioned above, is a very important part of every person's life. You should not disdain the time spent to decide what is the vocation, where you should apply your skills. After all, the knowledge acquired at work is much more applicable to life than the theory read in textbooks. A person should decide his own destiny, and not follow the lead of others.

Composition on the theme of choosing a profession

How nice it is to remember childhood: walks in the park with parents, trips to the sea, children's friends and much more. Unfortunately, childhood flies by like one moment and now, you are already a schoolboy who has years of study ahead and the most important choice in life - the choice of profession, here parents, friends, school psychologists with various programs for self-determination, profession ratings come to the rescue, but the most important thing is your own vision of yourself in a particular profession.

The desire to become a specialist in any field is the key not only to a successful career, but also to the psychological comfort of the person himself, as in the morning you go to your favorite job, and not to hard labor. But there are millions of such examples: I went to study for a company, my parents insisted, or there was just a small competition, whatever it was, and now we have eternally dissatisfied, incompetent employees, and it’s good if it’s just a manager, and not a doctor, on which a person’s life depends .

In my opinion, the most important guideline in this difficult task is your own feelings, if you like mathematics and computers, then why go to dentistry, and if you don’t like noisy companies and the child is not very sociable, then is it worth forcing him to work, associated with daily communication?

Modern realities are such that now the choice of one's professional activity must be correlated with the labor market. An analysis of the ranking of professions is needed in order to adjust the area of development in a particular area, and in the future to decide on the choice of an institution. Everyone knows that lawyers and economists are not such a popular profession now as they were 10 years ago, engineers, agricultural workers, doctors, teachers are needed, so the decision on choosing a profession must be made based on the data of the labor exchange. If you want to develop in the field of education, then you should look at what specialists are in demand and pay attention to this profession in order to easily find a job in the future.

Choosing a profession is a multifaceted and complex issue, it is impossible to answer in one minute who you want to become, as in childhood. The combination of many factors should determine the future profession, namely: the desire to develop in this profession, the availability of educational institutions that can provide the knowledge and skills necessary for the chosen profession, understanding the essence of the profession and the balance of one's personal and professional qualities, family support is no less important. In any case, no matter what profession a student chooses, the most important thing is that he himself likes what he does.

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Every person is a social being. Therefore, in order to receive at least some kind of pension in old age, one must work. And choose a profession that brings not only money, but also pleasure. The choice must be approached with all the seriousness of the issue.

Children, associating themselves with adults, "try on" their professions. Girls all around are teachers, doctors, shop assistants. Almost everyone wants to be a model these days. Modern boys no longer want to be astronauts and captains. Now there are other priorities. Everyone wants to be programmers0003

lawyers, financiers, bankers. A worthy profession. Recently, the number of young people and even girls who want to connect their lives with law enforcement agencies has increased.

In Soviet times, it was prestigious to work at one enterprise with whole families. This is how labor dynasties arose. Feature films were made about them. It was an honor and prestige to work all my life at one enterprise all my working life. Those people who often changed jobs were called "flyers". Although Americans believe that such people are "stuck" in their development.

How to choose your profession? You can turn to psychologists. With the help of scientific tests, they will determine the list of professions for a particular person. You can read horoscopes. They also write a list of professions for each astrological sign. There is some rational grain in this.

You can contact your parents, other close relatives or teachers. They watch the children, notice what they like best. But it also happens in life that parents, fearing for the child or not believing in his strength, offer him to choose the same profession as theirs. And the child, in order not to offend them, agrees with their choice. And he dreams of another profession.

Don't put pressure on a child, cut off the wings of his dream. Let him choose where and by whom he will work. Let him try, even make mistakes. But let it be his choice.

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