Know Yourself Well
The right career choice? It’s the one that resembles you. Reflect on life and experience it: take the time to discover who you are.
3 objectives
- Explore your skills, interests, values and personality traits, but also your limits and your needs.
- Keep reminders of what is important to you by organizing this information.
- Validate your findings and learn more about yourself by living new experiences.
How to meet these objectives
- Use lists, inventories, self-awareness tools.
- Talk with friends, parents, teachers, and colleagues to get a picture of who you are from their points of view.
- Recall past experiences: jobs, team projects, hobbies and commitments. Take stock of important points: what you learned about yourself in those situations.
Experience life!
How can you validate your impressions? As of now, start living new experiences: internships, university projects, exchanges, jobs, for example. This will allow you to:
- define how you see yourself by corroborating your impressions in the real world;
- develop your skills and knowledge pertaining to careers and the job market;
- add one or more valuable experiences to your CV.
The tools you need
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Self-evaluation
Resources to evaluate management skills
- The CBPQ Management Skills Guide (in French only)
Exploration questionnaire
- Fields of interest and related professional profiles (Université de Montréal site) (in French only)
- Personality types and corresponding professions (Mon Emploi site) (in French only)
- Interests, values and aptitudes in management (CareerLeader Site, special rate) (in French only)
- Personality Traits (16 Personalities site)
Live various experiences
Career Management Services activities
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