The Careers Service is one of the places you can turn to for help in clarifying your self-knowledge. There are many resources available there to help make clear each of the main self-knowledge areas. However, there are also a number of on-line resources which you could try as well, including Prospects Planner an on-line computer-assisted guidance system, to which several of the links on this page go.

Looking at You - A critical part of learning how to make career decisions involves looking at oneself and answering the following questions: (Click on the link to explore each area and see how they relate to possible occupations.)

• What sort of work activities am I most interested in?
  Identify my work-related interests
  
  
• What motivates me to work?
  Identify the things that get me started and keep me going
  
  
• What kinds of skills do I have already or need to develop?
  Realise the skills I have already and the ones I wish to develop
  
  
• What are my career criteria?
  Identifty some of my priorities in a career and what I mean by them
  
  
• What else may be important about me and my background?
  Discover how to use it positively
  

The answers to these questions are important ones because they provide useful information for making career decisions and solving career problems throughout one's life. This self-knowledge helps both expand and narrow the options that we are considering at any given point in life. It brings the picture into clearer focus, but also makes it easier to see the scope of what is within your grasp.