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Choose a career: online guidance tools
This page:
- Team Focus Personal and Career Development Reports
- TARGETjobs Careers Report
- Prospects Career Planner
- Key Skills, PDP and Bath Award
- Windmills Interactive
Other pages:
Team Focus Personal and Careers Development Reports
Provided with support from the Alumni Fund.
These assessments will help you gain an understanding of yourself. This can help you with career development and choices but also development in other areas such as study skills and relationships.
The Type Dynamics Indicator (TDI) helps you to understand more about your personality. This is useful in recognising situations and behaviours you are more comfortable with and therefore it may influence your career panning. In any case it will help you to understand differences between people and to identify where it may be advantageous to adjust your behaviour in certain circumstances.
Learning Styles Indicator (LSI) will help you to understand why some learning environments may be more difficult for you and to think about how you can maximise your learning.
Values-based Indicator of Motivation (VbIM) will help you to establish what you are most likely to value from your work and employers and to appreciate how values influence who you want to become.
View sample reports and complete the assessments. 
TARGETjobs Careers Report
Online self-assessment and matching tool which allows you to:
- answer a series of questions to build a profile of career personal preferences, key motivators and values, work personality type and capabilities.
- take an optional battery of four aptitude tests which don’t feed into the matching process but provide some additional practice for the real thing and benchmark performance against other students.
- create a list of 12-20 well-matched jobs which links to a database of job descriptions.
The system generates a detailed and individual report which you can save or print off to discuss with an adviser.
Prospects Career Planner
This is a web-based self-assessment tool which can help you:
- Identify what you want out of a job; generate new job ideas and check out your existing ones.
- Find out what motivates you in a job; identify your skills and what you can offer to the job/employer.
- See how these match the jobs you are considering.
- Research your chosen jobs in more detail, compare your options and decide on the right choices for you.
Initially you should anticipate spending at least an hour with Prospects Career Planner. You can use it as a basis for a discussion with a Careers Adviser who will help you interpret your results.
Skills for Study and Bath Award
Use these to find out how you can develop some career-relevant skills during your time at Bath that will make you more employable.
The Skills for Study area has material on a range of topics such as:
- group work
- information skills
- mathermatics and statistics
- PDP (Personal Development Planning)
- time management
- verbal communication
- writing skills.
The Bath Award recognises and accredits the skills and achievements of students engaged in all types of extra-curricular activities. It operates alongside your degree programme and aims to capture the benefits you have gained from all aspects of your university life that you will find valuable in your future life and career.
Windmills Interactive
Through a series of exercises Windmills Interactive will help you understand more about yourself, reveal the kind of life you really want and show you how to start working towards it. Useful for all, but particularly for those with some work experience or those who feel they are currently under-employed