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Document (PDF) | Career research is how you will be able to gather information to help you make informed career decisions. | |
Audio (MP3) | Career research is how you will be able to gather information to help you make informed career decisions. | |
Document (PDF) | Take time to reflect on your career and study journey, and what you need to progress in your career. | |
Document (PDF) | Learn more about what a side hustle is and how you can start thinking about earning multiple streams of income to future-proof your finances. | |
Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to accounting sciences and how you can prepare for opportunities in these fields. | |
Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to agricultural sciences and how you can prepare for opportunities in these fields. | |
Document (PDF) | This brochure will help you to understand the role of the higher certificate qualifications, as well as the options available. | |
Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to accounting sciences and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. | |
Communication Science and Languages @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to communication science and languages, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
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Learn more about the different fields related to community development and social work, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. | |
Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to criminology, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. | |
Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to data science, mathematics, statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, and astronomy, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. | |
Economics @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to economics, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Education @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to education, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Entrepreneurship @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to entrepreneurship, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Environmental careers | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to environmental management and science, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Human Resources @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to human resource management, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
IT @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to IT, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Information Sciences @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to information science, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Law @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to law, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Life Sciences @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to life sciences, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Logistics & Supply Chain Management @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to logistics and supply chain management, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Marketing Management @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to marketing management, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in this field. |
Philosophy @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to philosophy, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Physics @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to physics, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Public Administration and Management @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to public administration and management, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Project Management @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the project management career field, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in this field. |
Psychology @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the different fields related to psychology, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities in these fields. |
Social Sciences @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about a career in the social sciences, and how you can prepare for career and study opportunities related to these. |
Short Learning Programmes @ Unisa | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the role of short learning programmes in terms of your career development. |
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Type | Description |
Document (PDF) | You will need to make many career choices throughout your life, for example, about what to study, and where to work. This document contains questions to help you reflect on a career choice. | |
Need a qualification | Document (PDF) | You have work experience and you now need to complete a qualification to progress. This document contains questions to help you reflect on which qualification(s) will enable you to prepare for further career opportunities. |
Document (PDF) | You have thought of several career options and you now need support to help you narrow down your choices. This document contains questions to help you reflect on which career and related study options you would want to focus on. | |
Reflect on Skills | Document (PDF) | This document will help you to reflect on the skills you have developed over time and what you still need to do to develop skills that are valuable in the work context. |
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Taking a gap year | Document (PDF) | Learn more about what a gap year is and how you can optimise a gap year for your career and personal development |
Self and career awareness: True Colours | Document (PDF) | Learn more about the True Colours tool to help you identify your personality characteristics and related strengths & growth areas; attributes you may admire; and possible career interests and work environments |
Choosing a career | Audio (MP3) | Learn more about the aspects to consider when choosing a career and what to study. |
Informational interviews | Audio (MP3) | Conversations with people about the information you need can help you to make choices about how to best prepare yourself for what you want. We discuss the role of informational interviews and how to go about having effective conversations. |
Making career choices | Audio (MP3) | You will make choices about your career continuously. In this podcast, we chat about how to make effective career choices. |
Managing your career | Audio (MP3) | There are many strategies that you could use to actively manage your career so that you could prepare yourself for opportunities. Learn more about career management and some of the ways you can go about doing this. |
Online resources for career development | Audio (MP3) | There are many online resources available that can assist you to plan and manage your career. Learn more about how you can use these online career development resources. |
Planning your career | Audio (MP3) | Even though you plan in an uncertain environment it is important to have an understanding of where you are going. |
Document (PDF) |
This brochure will help you to plan for how you are preparing for further career and study opportunities. | |
Prepare for career opportunities (1) |
Audio (MP3) | As you are studying, you need to prepare for a variety of career opportunities. In these interviews, we chat about ways you could prepare so that you are ready when you are presented with opportunities. These interviews were originally broadcast on Unisa Radio. |
Relate your studies to your career (1) |
Audio (MP3) | As you are studying, you are developing important skills and you need to be able to relate how your studies are contributing to your career development. Learn more about how you can reflect on what you are learning and how this is helping you to develop your career. |
Audio (MP3) | Find out more about how volunteering can form an important part of your career development and contribute to your skills development and growing a network. |
Contact a counsellor to have further discussions about your career development.
Last modified: 2023/09/07