Activity 16.4 Action planning for self-development

Develop a series of action plans for making yourself more employable by targeting key strengths and weaknesses. Now follow them! Monitor progress at regular intervals and update the plans regularly.

Activity 16.5 Exploring your vision

You can also ‘interrogate’ the vision you developed in Activity 16.1. What was it that felt good about the job you visualised? What does this tell you about yourself? Revisit Activity 1.5, with your initial thoughts on good and bad aspects of working life, and see how they have altered since then. If they have not altered much, or if you found your imagination didn’t come up with much, spend some time talking to family, friends, mature students and those who have had vacation jobs in order to find out what they see as the elements of a ‘good’ job, and use this to refine your thinking. You might want to note the learning for this in your learning diary.