Before starting your job search, it is beneficial to spend your time in identifying your possible career moves, your capabilities, expertise and personal values. Self-identification can help you to create a career development plan and to do right career decisions. Such as, which environments or work cultures inspire you and what gives you fulfilment. This identification can help you to do the right pitch and follow the correct professional development path.
What are your talents?
- Think about significant points of achievement or challenge in your life to date
- Why are they significant?
- What have you learnt from them and how might they influence the type of career path you pursue?
Understand your personality type
Understanding your personality type can often provide the key to recognizing why you have tendencies to act or react in a certain way and help identify the types of work environments you thrive in. There are a number of tools widely used including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Access to such tools may be provided by your institution or careers service.
Understand your values and motivations
- What are your values and motivations?
- How far do they form the foundation of what you consider to be career success?
- What elements would a job role need to include for you to feel satisfied at the end of a day’s work?
Audit your capabilities and expertise
- What do you consider to be your areas of expertise?
- What skills and qualities do you possess as a result of your research, paid or voluntary work experience or hobbies?
- Use the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF) to map your current capabilities, attributes and competencies
- What capabilities or competencies are missing and how can you fill in the gaps?
Understand your learning style
Identifying the most effective way you learn can inform the type of training or development you could undertake in order to develop a particular capability. There are a number of tools which could help you to identify your own learning style such as the Learning Style Questionnaire (Honey and Mumford, 1982). Access to this questionnaire may be provided by your institution.
Vitae Community
References
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researcher-careers/career-management-for-researchers/understanding-yourself
Stats
- Recommendations n/a n/a positive of 0 vote(s)
- Views 832
- Comments 0