Analysis

Personal analysis

Career tests

Career tests give you an answer to which professions match your interests, IQ and personality, and can be seen as the first career planning step. For more on career testing, visit http://www.peoplemaps.com or https://dreamfoundation.eu/.

Personal SWOT analysis

An analysis of strengths and weakness focusing on understanding and recognizing one’s personality, opportunities and threats. In order to get a relevant score, we need to know current conditions on the job market, as well as the dynamics and characteristics of the role on the job and the nature of the job itself.

• Strengths: What are your strengths and advantages? Where did you produce results?
• Weaknesses: What are your weakness? What can’t you do and what do you need to learn?
• Opportunities: What are your opportunities and challenges? What challenges you? What are your values?
• Threats: Where are your limits? What threats await you, and what happens when you make a decision?

The WWW trap

Do you know what employers can find out about you online? Some employers use the internet to recruit candidates. You should therefore make sure there are no information about you available online that could reduce your employment options (e.g. (Facebook, Twitter, Netlog). For more tips, visit http://www.careerbuilder.com.

Job analysis

Job analysis connects your skills, competencies, values and goals with what you want to do for a living and your interests. You can obtain information of this kind from friends, at preliminary interviews or online.

Job market analysis

More and more often, employers tend to shun the permanent employment relationship, gravitating towards finding other forms of employment in an attempt to make away with once-common employment types. New employment/work relationship types include relationships under a contract of work, distance work, shift-based work, job-sharing and work on stand-by.

We can expect a similar trend in the future, as flexible types of employment will continue to spread and will require adequate regulation. The goal behind the rise of these types of employment is to hire additional workforce, enhance social security of workers, or ensure greater flexibility of enterprises in adapting to changes in the global market.

The steady rise of the education level of employees and job seekers is a prominent feature of the EU labour market. Naturally, companies that make material investments into new technologies need a highly skilled and educated workforce.

Before you start writing your job application or job offer, take the time to familiarize yourself with organizations relevant to your skills and interests where you envisage yourself building a career. Study carefully the organization you intend to apply for a job with, in particular with regard to its business, the type of staff it hires, and its financial position. Only if you know the prospective employer well will you be able to produce a good job application/offer. Furthermore, this knowledge will help you later in the job interview as well. Use the internet for your research, as the majority of organizations have websites. You will also find additional information in business registries, newspapers, journals, and public announcements.

By reading the news regularly, you will acquire plenty of general knowledge and information on world events and know exactly which sector to turn to when looking for a job. You can find various information on companies at http://www.vault.com, http://www.careerbeam.com or http://www.hoovers.com.

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