What is Prospects Planner?

Prospects Planner is a computer-based careers guidance tool designed to match your skills, interests and motivations to relevant occupations.

Prospects can help you generate career ideas, investigate them and plan your job seeking and applications strategy.

At the heart of the system is a database of over 400 graduate level occupations that have been investigated in depth and analysed for particular factors. Using Prospects Planner gives you access to this information in a systematic way so that you can plan your career realistically.

What help can I get from Prospects Planner?

• explore your skills, interests and motivations to generate a list of possible occupations to investigate;
• research what different occupations involve and how they compare with each other;
• investigate your chances of success by evaluating your career ideas against particular criteria;
• learn how to answer some of the challenging questions that are commonly asked on application forms and how to put together a CV that markets your skills and experience effectively.

You can use Prospects Planner to examine any or all of the above easily at your own pace, but don't expect to do everything at once! Depending on how you intend to use the system, you need to set aside about an hour for an initial session followed by subsequent visits.

Discuss your results

After you have explored the system, you might wish to discuss your results with a careers adviser.

Where can I find Prospects Planner?

Prospects Planner is available on the Prospects website (www.prospects.ac.uk/links/54) which will allow you to explore your skills, interests and motivations, generate career ideas and investigate them.