Reflect: Know yourself

Understanding who you are is an incredibly important first step in thinking about what you want to do after you graduate. In this episode Dawn Lees, Student Employability and Development Manager, explores how you can reflect on what interests you, what your strengths, skills, preferences, values and motivations are and how this can help you with your career planning.

Useful Links:

• Attend one of our workshops, including Exploring and researching career decisions and Discover your strengths to find a job that suits you. Book via Handshake.
• Profiling for Success
• Skills Audit, as part of Create Your Future.

• Motivations questionnaire in Handshake.

• Exeter Award and Exeter Leaders Award

• How to research an employer
• Help with developing your skills. 

• Consider how to identify your skills with Sarah Blunt, Employability and Careers Consultant, by watching this short video: https://youtu.be/NvqKFQ--f54

Listen to our other podcast episodes on:

• Reflection: Why is it important for employability: https://pod.fo/e/2d5359 
• Should you do something you're passionate about or something you're good at: https://pod.fo/e/2d534a
• How to choose a career: https://pod.fo/e/2d53c4