We would like to offer a number of suggestions in an attempt to make your decisions easier.

Deciding what subject to study and what career to pursue provides an important opportunity to shape your life, and making the right choices often involves a long decision making process.

What am I interested in?

Subject and career interests can for example be seen from :

• Leisure activities
• Preferred subjects at school
• Favourite topics of conversation
• People you consider to be role models
• Preferred reading material
• Interesting tasks
• Change
• Opportunity for promotion
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How important for my career is ...?

• Prestige
• Security
• Working abroad
• Contact with people
• Income

What is the best way for me to study or train?

In response to the question concerning the right way to study - at college/university, by doing a short course, or by going directly into the workplace and learning there.

  CHECK! A few suggestions may help:

•  Do I like learning? (Motivation, talent, perseverance)
•  Am I interested in abstract concepts or do I prefer practical activity?
•  Is it important for me to be financially independent as soon as possible?
•  To which career and field of work should my qualification and/or training lead me?

A qualification can lead to various careers; the reverse is also true; to get into many careers a range of qualifications can be useful.
 

What kind of assistance is the Psychological Counselling Centre offering in connection with the choice of what to study?

The Psychological Counselling Centre can support you in finding answers to questions you may have concerning your choice of subject and career taking your personal background into consideration, in an attempt to clarify these things in order that you have a wealth of specific, well directed information to inform your choices. You will of course also be pointed in the direction of other potentially useful sources of information.

The support offered relating to subject choice, intended subject change or a decision to stop studying frequently consists of discussion of uncertainties, conflicting decisions and issues of suitability. If need be relevant tests will be used to assist in this process.