Particularly if the advice on offer is:
"Choose what you are good at"
"Follow
your passion"
"Keep
your options
open"
It all sounds reasonable. But none of it helps to actually make a decision.
Subject choices made at 15 can rule out whole categories of work - opportunities most teenagers aren't even aware of. Not because the advice was bad. Because a better way to think it through wasn't on offer.
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territories
Five Ways To Think About Work
Every job draws on five ways of thinking and working - what we call territories - in different proportions. Understanding which ones give you energy helps with all career decisions,
particularly when choosing A-Levels.
why it matters
Know your territory. Know your direction
Understanding which way of thinking and working suits you allows you to choose a direction that plays to your strengths.
You don't have to decide on a destination - nobody knows at 15 where they'll end up.
How many jobs?
Most teenagers can perhaps name twenty or thirty job titles. There are over thirty thousand* out there. Nobody is going to work their way through that list. Nor should they have to.
Finding out which kind of work suits you allows you to make sense of thirty thousand jobs whilst working out what it is that you want to do.
*ONS Standard Occupational Classification 2020, coding index - 30,110 job titles.
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