What do I have to offer?
What do I have to offer?
Career planning is all about identifying your skills and strengths and relating them to what jobs and courses demand to widen your options and set career goals.
Many people have difficulty in identifying their own strengths, experience and qualities and how these might relate to what employers look for.
The purpose of this is to help you and your child talk this through together and:-
- Identify and discuss their strengths and qualities. Use these pages of the Careers Scotland web site to help you
- Consider the "evidence" that could be used to back this up. This could come from school reports, qualifications, participation in activities; from work experience or a part-time job; or from leisure activities and interests.
- Compare this against what research tells us employers are looking for. Research tells us that employers are interested in more than qualifications. You might find these pages of Helping your children with their career useful:
