My Career - Interactive Tools

This section has three core parts, each with practical exercises for you to complete:

• Where are you now?
• Where do you want to be?
• How will you get there?

You don’t have to follow these core parts in any particular order; you can pick and mix as you wish. Nor do you have to do each section all at once. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither are careers! Use the exercises provided as a way to build your career on building blocks.

We suggest you start with Where am I now or Where do I want to be, so that you can start identifying where you are and where you want to take your career.

You can print off the articles and use them for your annual review; you can start them, save what you’ve done and return to them later. You can complete them regularly to review your career plans, and save them in your very own Deskdemon.com folder, My Career.

Your own deskdemon.com calendar, email, address book, note pad and My Career section will enable you to plot your next move in privacy.

Practical Tips and Advice

The career section in Deskdemon also has lots of supporting articles full of practical advice and tips on the career topics below. They include Knowing my region, in which we'll be focusing on each region in the UK month by month, which will help you boost your knowledge of what's happening it in which could affect your career!

• Maximising your potential: hot tips on how to make training and learning happen, and maximising your effectiveness at work.
• Recruitment: advice on how to choose an agency, interview technique, CV writing and recruitment agencies;
• Knowing My Region: up to date info on what's hot and what's not in your area; who are the larger employers, what help is available to help businesses. If you want to impress your boss with your knowledge of what's going on, this section is for you!
• Career tools; help to make the most of your annual review, study your organisation, and use your CV to plot your future.
• Networking: information on what networking is about, including tips on making the most of careers fairs
• Setting up your own business, with practical exercises to see if its' right for you, and, if so, who can help you;

Pull these strands together
And shape your future career.

Don’t leave it to somebody else to push you in a direction you don’t want to go in!