Personality Tests. A Good Starting Point?

Before thinking about what careers you may be suited to it may be useful to think carefully about your own personality. Try taking the BBC's "What am I like?" personality test. A test where you discover if you are a Big Thinker, an Idealist or another of 16 personality types.

Career Tests - What type of career might you be suited to?

To be happy and successful in your working life, it’s important that you ensure your abilities, values and personality are well matched to those needed for your chosen career. Lots of people are now turning to free online career tests in order to assess themselves. They are quick to complete and can help you discover your strengths, in terms of your skills, knowledge and personal qualities. They then offer you an individual analysis (usually computer generated) and some recommended career options.

Here's a few that you might like to try:

The Princeton Review Career Quiz™

After answering 24 questions, you receive a description of your interests, skills and preferred style – using the Birkman colour approach – plus a list of the careers this points to.

Prospects Planner Free Online Career Tests

This test helps you clarify your ideas. It is a shortened version of a longer test for University graduates. You’ll need to register and then answer some questions about your skills and what you want from a job. The results show what you might do for a career. You don't have to explore all the options at once, as you can return and view the results again on your next visit.

"If you don't know where you are going you
will probably end up somewhere else"

Curriculum Vitae (CV) / Résumé

Your CV/Résumé is brief written account of your personal details, your education, your interests, your particular skills and abilities, and the jobs that you have had. You are often asked to send a CV when applying for a job. CVs come in many shapes and sizes. While there is no "correct" resume format, you should try to ensure that your's highlights your strengths, particularly the strengths that you think your prospective employer will be looking for. Consequently you may have more than one CV, each tailored to the demands of particular positions for which you are applying.

Remember: Short-listed (invited to interview) and successful candidates are invariably the people who provide employers with the best CV's and best covering letters (a letter in which you explain why you are the best candidate for the job).

You can download a sample school-leaver CV (in MS Word format) by clicking the button below. Please don't copy it - see it as a guide to what you might include.

For more advice on writing your own CV do a web search for "Curriculum Vitae" or "Résumé". One very useful source of online advice can be found at http://www.businessballs.com/curriculum.htm

Choosing a University?

Are you looking to see what universities in Thailand have to offer? Lanna staff have put a great deal of work into compiling an up-to-date list of what international programmes are available here in Thailand - to our knowledge nobody else has compiled this information! To download a file (in .pdf format) giving details of international programmes available at Thai universities click on the button below.