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    Getting started with your career
    How to work out what you want to do
    Complexity Easy Duration 25 - 30 min
    Unsure what you want to do as a career? You're definitely not alone. This module takes you through why it's completely normal to not know what you want to do, along with giving you practical steps to discover your interests and narrow down the careers that are right for you. Captions are available on this Academy module. To activate captions, click the CC button on a video and select "English".
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    Presenter
    Ben Triggs
    Ben Triggs
    Bright Network, Head of Membership
    Ben works with university students, helping them make the best educational and career-related decisions. As Head of Membership at Bright Network, he oversees all the upskilling work the team does on campus and beyond. With a keen interest in commercial awareness, Ben edits Bright Network’s weekly Commercial Awareness updates, which have a readership of 16,000 students/graduates.
    Ben works with university students, helping them make the best educational and career-related decisions. As Head of Membership at Bright Network, he oversees all the upskilling work the team does on campus and beyond. With a keen interest in commercial awareness, Ben edits Bright Network’s weekly Commercial Awareness updates, which have a readership of 16,000 students/graduates.
    Lessons in this module
    2
    1. Let's get some things straight
    In this first lesson Ben outlines the importance of taking your time to think about what you want to do as a career path along with letting you know it's ok not to be sure on your career yet.
    2 - 3 minutes
    2
    2. The five things you should be asking yourself
    It's important to be honest with yourself about what you do and don't enjoy. Ben draws on his own experiences to share with you how you can take the steps to understand what sectors and roles could be a suitable fit. Take a notebook out for this interactive lesson, it might be easier to visually see your answers to the questions.
    4 - 5 minutes
    1
    3. Identifying your strengths
    This is an exercise where you can put your learnings from the first couple of lessons into practice.
    10 - 15 minutes
    2
    4. Things you should be doing right now
    This lesson outlines the importance of research and gives you the tools you'll need to effectively build a wider understanding of the different sectors out there. You should really take your time to research the different departments and roles in a wide spectrum of companies.
    5 - 6 minutes
    2
    5. Final tips
    To round off this module, Ben shares his top five tips on how you can narrow down the career paths that could be a suitable fit.
    3 - 4 minutes
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