Tools can help you get career ideas.
- take this quiz to find career ideas based on your interests.
- explore over 400 jobs.
- get career ideas based on your skills.
- get career ideas based on the subjects you studied at school.
Who can help you get career ideas .
Get career ideas from the people around you.
Friends and family
- To get career ideas, ask your friends and family about their career paths. How did they choose their careers? What did they do?
- Ask them what they think your skills are, and what careers you might be good at.
Teachers, tutors and career advisers
- Chat to teachers, tutors or career advisers to help them match your skills to possible careers.
Employers and industry associations
- Employers and industry associations can talk to you about the range of jobs in their company and what it’s like to do a particular job.
- Employers can help you trial a career by doing work experience, or give you ideas for careers you can progress into.
People you admire
Think about people who have the life you’d like. Would their career suit you?
People at career expos and job expos
Career and job expos are an ideal time to talk to training providers, industry associations and employers about your options.
Get inspired by people who love their careers
Career stories from people who love their careers can inspire you and give you advice on how to work towards your career goals.
My career inspiration – exercise
Think about someone who has the career and lifestyle you admire.
Other ways to get career ideas
You can get career ideas from:
- browsing job vacancies
- browsing advertisements for businesses or franchises
- thinking about services or businesses that could help people
- finding out about what industries have skill shortages.
Learn more about your career ideas
Once you’ve found some careers ideas, you need to learn more about them.
Research your career ideas so you can remove some jobs or add new ones to your list.
Do online research
Doing online research is an important step in making an informed career choice.
Find information about:
- how you enter the jobs
- study or training needed
- opportunities, pay and other employment conditions
- training or geographical limitations, for example, is there only one training provider for the job or can the job only be done in certain regions?
- level of demand for the job ideas you’ve identified
- where you’ll find most of these types of jobs in South Africa
- the risk of automation.
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