This document provides guidance on choosing a career by outlining key factors to consider. These include identifying one's interests, life goals, skills, values, career influences and support system. It also discusses researching the labor market and specific qualifications needed. The document emphasizes that choosing a career is a process that involves self-reflection on these different areas.

1. MY CAREER CHOICE

2. YOUR CAREER
CHOICE
is a PROCESS

3. My career vision
Where do I see
My interests myself?
What do I like? My life goals
How am I going to get to
where I see myself?
The labour market
My skills
Where do I research
What am I good at?
occupations/ jobs?
My values
My support system What is important to me?
How do I get the
support I need?
My career influences
Who/ what shaped my
career ideas?

4. MY CAREER VISION
Where do I see myself?

5. MY LIFE GOALS
How to get from where I am
now to where I see myself…

6. MY SKILLS
What am I good at?

7. MY
VALUES
What is
important
to me?

8. MY CAREER
INFLUENCES
Who/ what shaped my
career ideas?

9. MY
SUPPORT
Do I know
what I need
and
how to get
support?

10. THE LABOUR
MARKET
Where do I research
occupations/ jobs?

11. MY INTERESTS
What do I like?

12. MY INTERESTS
Economic Human
Agriculture & Manage- Sciences
& Environ- ment Art Science, En
mental Sciences Reading gineering &
Law
Sciences Working with Performing Technology
Persuading
Physical activity numbers Education Speaking to or Maths and
people
Agriculture Working with Working with in front of Sciences
Influencing
Working with money development of groups Planning
others
hands/ Running own children Interacting with Problem-solving
Social justice
machines business Teaching others Designing
Solving difficult
Plants Leading others Taking care of things
situations
Animals Selling others Knowing how
Fixing things products/ Other cultures things work
Food services Spiritual issues
Planning Languages
Which one of these groups of
interests best describes you?

13. MY INTERESTS
Economic Human
& Manage- Sciences
Communication
ment
Agriculture Journalism and
Sciences Related Studies
& Environ- Accounting Science, En
Family Ecology
mental Sciences gineering &
and Consumer
Sciences Economic Sciences
Technology
Agriculture, Sciences Computer and
Health
Agricultural (Economics, De Law Information
Professions
Operations cision Education Law Sciences
Languages
and Related Sciences, Logisti Education Public Engineering
Philosophy,
Sciences cs) Management Applied
Religion and
Environmental Management Mathematics,
Theology
Management Sciences (All Mathematics &
Psychology
Consumer management, I Statistics
Public
Sciences ndustrial Chemistry
Management
Life Sciences Psychology, Pub Social Sciences
lic Visual and
Management) Performing
Law Arts
Career fields in Unisa Colleges

14. MY
INTERESTS
Download
My choice @ Unisa
Go to pages 30-33
to link career
fields with
specific
qualifications

15. MY
RESOURCE
S

16. MY COUNSELLING
SERVICES
Career decisions, career information, employability
skills, my studies at Unisa, personal issues, helping you to
understand processes at Unisa
Website http://www.unisa.ac.za/counselling
E-mail counselling@unisa.ac.za
Ask a counsellor http://bit.ly/askcounsellor
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/unisacounselling
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/unisacareers

17. IMAGES
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