Self-Exploration

Before you start looking for a job, think about your career first. Choosing a career means more than finding a means of making a living. Your work will determine many aspects of your daily activities, so you are in fact choosing your future way of life.

Before you start your job search, you have to take into consideration a wide range of factors:

• How do you currently spend your time and energy?

• What do you enjoy doing and what you are good at?

• What do you value most : developing your potential, becoming an expert, serving the community, taking care of your family and friends, making a lot of money or gaining status and prestige?

The first step of career planning is to assess your interests, values, skills and personality traits. Self assessment is a process by which you learn more about yourself. A good self understanding can help you determine which occupations and work situations could better fit you. DON'T be forced by the market to take up jobs you don't like. Build your career around your interest and abilities.

There are many assessment tools. You can choose a self-directed tool or one that requires interpretive assistance.

Self-Directed - self-administered, self-scored and self-interpreted inventory and assessment tools that can help you identify some occupationally related interests.

Prospect Planner	Prospects Planner helps you clarify your ideas. It suggests what jobs might suit you.
Career Key	The Career Key (Chinese version) is a free service to help you with career choices, career changes, and career planning, job search, and choosing a college major or training program.

Assessment Requiring Interpretive Assistance - assessment tools that require you to review results with our Counsellor or a qualified trainer.

Type	Fee (for testing materials)	Purpose
MBTI® (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)	HK$150 (paper and pencil questionnaire and face-to-face debriefing)	It is a psychometric instrument designed to measure an individual's preferences for perceiving and decision making, personality type and cognitive style. More about MBTI
Chinese Personality at Work	HK$200 (web-based questionnaire and face-to-face debriefing)	It is a questionnaire for the objective assessment of personality characteristics in a work setting. It is developed by Chinese for use among the Chinese. More about CPW

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