• Making decisions
• Action planning
• What can you do next?
• Consider other options

Making decisions

How do you make decisions? How you make decisions will affect your approach to career planning. Use the web pages listed to help assess your preferred decision-making style.

• Mindtools - this website helps you look at different decision-making techniques.

Action planning

Where do you keep ideas of what to do next? Try using an action plan to help you turn your good ideas in reality and take action on your plans. Examples of action plans are in:

• Download our careers & personal development workbook (PDF, 259KB, opens new window). It has a quick and easy guide to action planning and a range of questionnaires to help with career planning.
• Resources for researching jobs and careers (PDF, 67KB, opens new window).

What can you do next?

Once some decisions are made, you will want to make some applications for:

• Graduate jobs: find out about applying for a job and use our interactive careers service to search for vacancies.
• Work experience will help to confirm your ideas about your career decision.
• Further study may be one of the options that you decide upon.
• Get your CV or application form checked by one of our advisers at CV Clinic or Advice Desk.

Consider other options

• Taking time out either through travelling, paid work, volunteering or short courses.
• Self-employment and entrepreneurship - the Entrepreneurship and Innovation service is part of the Careers and Employability Centre and aspires to encourage and promote enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurship amongst students, staff and alumni.