We would like to offer a number of suggestions which might facilitate your decision.

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

What am I interested in?

Subject and career interests can, for example, be deducted from:

• Leisure activities
• Preferred subjects at school
• Favourite topics of conversation
• People you consider to be role models
• Preferred reading material
• Interesting tasks
• Change

How important for my career is ...?

• Prestige
• Security
• Working abroad
• Contact with people
• Income
• Opportunity for promotion

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

There are many ways of studying – at college/university, doing a short course –  and the alternative of directly entering the working environment 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?

One qualification can lead to various careers. The reverse is also true – to attain a desired position, a range of qualifications can be useful.

What kind of assistance do the Psychological Counseling Centers offer regarding the issue of career choice?

The Psychological Counseling Centers support you in finding answers to questions you may have concerning your choice of subject and career taking your personal background into consideration. In order to clarify these aspects, extensive specific, well directed information is necessary. Further potentially useful sources of information will be provided.

The support offered relating to subject choice, intended subject change or a decision to drop out frequently consists of discussion of uncertainties, conflicting options and issues of suitability. If appropriate, tests will be used to back up this process.