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ROOTS! - Career Planning

Welcome to Roots! - the Improve Career Planning Tool

How to use Roots!

Roots! starts off with a self assessment section, take a look at this and add in to your self assessment template the words that most describe you, ask friends and relatives that know you well if they would add in other points different to your own. Go through each section and work through at your own pace.

Roots! is for you to make the most of yourself and the wealth of opportunities available.

You can download the template by clicking on this link: Workbook.doc

So why should you use this and what’s in it for you?

You might be:

  • A school leaver looking for work or training opportunities
  • You could be at college or university
  • An adult looking for work
  • Looking for a promotion either with your present employer or with a new employer
  • Maybe you’re returning to work or study after your children have started school
  • Looking to gain new skills
  • Looking for new opportunities
  • Facing redundancy

Whatever your situation Roots! will help you to plan for your working future.

You be able to:

  • Find out about yourself
  • What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  • Assess your skills and learn new ones
  • Decide what you need to learn and how to do it

So what’s in it for you?

With this tool you will be able to plan what you need to do next, how to make new contacts, get information to help you and gain more confidence in yourself and your abilities.