Planning my career

I) Knowing about yourself

Self-assessment is a big topic. And it's the one that you probably think you can skip. But this is the heart and soul of the job search process for serious job seekers.

Before you begin the actual job search process, it is important to think about your goals, abilities, interests and values.

This will help you market yourself more effectively and demonstrate why you should be hired.

Therefore, before beginning your job search, you should be able to answer these questions:

• What are your abilities?
• Your strengths?
• What type of work are you interested in?
• What type of organization(s)/ company(ies) do you want to work for?
• What skills have you developed through your education, work experience or activities?

You can find answers by taking a close look at yourself.

In order help you to know more about yourself, your interests and talents I (KORA, can we put Kora here?) collected some tools you can use for free. There are many more online, these are only examples. I am sure you can find more on internet.

PLEASE Upload Word Document: Self descriptive words (doc 1 attachment)

PLEASE Upload following links:

Knowing your personality: https://www.123test.com/jung-personality-test/

Entrepreneur Quiz, http://www.humanmetrics.com/entrepreneur

Page with links to different test: https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/best...

II) Collecting information about professions

Please put the following text and link:

(KORA saying) It is very important to make well informed decisions! If you are looking for orientation in order to choose the right profession, you should inform yourself very well about the professions you are interested in. The video clips can help you: PUT LINK TO the VIDEO CLIPS

In addition, there is a lot of information available online. However, keep in mind that this information is always depending on the specific circumstances in the respective country! You always have to cross-check and verify with our Rwandan realities.

Here you can for example find information about knowledge, skills and abilities needed in different professions: https://www.mynextmove.org

This home page offers you a link to test which career matches your skills: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/careers.shtml

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has developed a free smartphone application to support young people to learn more about themselves and find satisfying careers. It is called Surfing the labour market and you can find it here to download: http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/apps/lang--en/index.htm