Testing the Water: helping you take your first steps from education to work career guide

Testing the Water: helping you take your first steps from education to work career guide
by Cathy Brown
ISBN: 978-1-906542-48-1
Price: £19.99 Post Band D

This career guide may be helpful to you if:

• you are at school, college and university and you want to prepare yourself for the transition to work
• you are looking forward to starting work and are wanting to prepare yourself
• you have some questions about work that you want to answer
• you have mixed feelings about starting work that you want to resolve
• recently you have begun work but it isn’t working out as you planned
• you are having second thoughts about working in your particular joy
• you feel like doing a personal MOT to get back on track with your career
• you are thinking about going back into education
• you are a HR professional and career counsellor and want to support students in their transition to work
• the career guide is based on research – it answers the popular questions students and recent workers have
• there is expert advice, activities, case studies and useful reference

top tips are throughout the chapter and in the next steps