The Successful Career Choice Project

It is the National scientific psychological and pedagogical project by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

The main goal is to implement the ability of youth to choose a successful career in the educational process, career planning and formation of competencies dealing with the requirements of the labor market.

OBJECTIVES :

  • development of students’ skills of economic and critical thinking, rational behavior and partnership skills;

  • forming the image of a business person, a sense of human dignity and the value of different types of job;

  • organization of developed environment aimed at the skills to make a career choice, evaluate the attitude to work, a sense of responsibility for future activities.

There are hundreds of career options out there. How do you make a career choice when you don’t really know what you want to do? Does it seem like an insurmountable task? It’s not. Yes, you will have to put some time and energy into making your decision, but your effort will be well worth it in the end.

Before you can make a career choice you have to learn about yourself. Your values, interests and skills, in combination with certain personality traits, will make some careers especially suitable for you and some particularly inappropriate. You can use self assessment tools, often called career tests, to gather this information and, subsequently, to generate a list of occupations that are deemed appropriate. Some people choose to have career counselors or other career development professionals administer these tests but many opt to use free career tests that are available on the Web.