Choices - but how?

But what is for me?

Maybe my personality will guide me?

Oh wait, what do I like?

High-school is in many ways a wonderful time. It teaches us to learn, but does not teach a particular skill (beyond learning) really. It gives us the at several topjob situastem-cells. It anything! Does it then making choicis the combirealisation of be good at sure to certain subjects. time to ‘sniff’ ics and future tions. It is like can grow into

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It is also very much a matter of YOU. What are your qualities and what is your personality like. Like if you are very shy, maybe a career as a public speaker is not the choice – LOL. So let us involve some guidance. I found some inspiration from here.

• What subjects have you enjoyed studying at school and beyond?

Why? Is it because you like the person teaching you, or there’s something about that subject you can really relate to? • What subjects have you done well at, and why? • If you had to pick a favourite out of words, numbers, visuals and physical activities, which would it be? Could you see yourself in a job where your top choice formed a big part of what you do every day? They have links to a few personality tests. These are both fun and unusual in their thoroughness. Try! I did Colour Career Quiz (www.colorquiz.com/quiz.php) Here’s a fun one to start with. The Colour Quiz is an easy test that looks at your personality based on the colour you select. When you’re presented with a block of colours, select them in order of preference, choosing your favourites first. This isn’t a super-scientific test but it only takes a minute or two to complete! It also won’t tell you what careers you’d be good, but helps shine a light on what makes you stressed in the workplace and how to keep your cool. Colour psychology is a genuine thing – there’s even a Wikpedia article about it.

My view: Fun! Wonder how accurate it is

Here are some more options (from here):

Keirsey Temperament

Sorter (here) The Keirsey Temperament Sorter has a boring name, but it’s actually fascinating stuff. Answer all the questions and you will get to understand your personality type and what kind of temperament (or basic nature) you have. There are four temperaments in the Keirsey Temperament Sorter: • Guardian (finding membership and belonging) • Artisan (finding freedom and action) • Idealist (finding meaning and unique identity) • Rational (finding knowledge and competence, or skilled ability) Each of these four temperaments has four separate flavours. You get a free profile description when you finish the test My view: Still waiting for the results O*NET Interests Profiler (here) This questionnaire of 60 questions is American. It’s a useful way to see where your career and work interests mostly lie out of these six areas:

• Realistic • Investigative • Social • Enterprising • Conventional • Artistic

For each question, you’ll be asked how much you’d like to do an example activity, from “strongly like” to “strongly dislike”. From this, the interests profiler builds up a picture of what kind of work activities you’d most enjoy and be good at. Once you complete the test you’ll see careers listed for each of the six interests, and you’ll also be able to see how much preparation you’d need to do to get into those careers. My view: Fun! It is fast. I get the feeling it is spot-on. AND it has a lot of job choices as examples. Sokanu Career Test (here) This test takes about 30 minutes. It asks you to answer a bunch of questions about what you like and dislike, much like the test above. Then it gives you a free career personality profile. Why does it take so long, and ask so many questions? Because it’s trying to see how your interests match up to over 800 different careers! That means it’s worth doing, because it could really open you up to some career choices you never knew you’d be great at. My view: This is HUGE! This more than huge. But it is probably the most accurate of them all.

Conclusion: worth it! Try!

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SCHOOL OF ENGINEE R I N G DAVEYTON CAMPUS REGISTRATION DATES... Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought “ ” EKURHULENI EAST TVET COLLEGE produced The cell phone model demo IPRINO is named a�er his first nickname PRINO which is shortened from his first name first innovative young man ENGINEERING STUDIESPrince. With the rapid growth in Computer Technology in SCHOOL OF EN G I N EERING N1 - N3 BUSNESS S C H OOL BENONI CAMPUS BUSINES S S C HOOLBRAKPAN CAMPUS SCHOOL O F E NGINEERING KWA-THEMA CAMPUS who developed a cell phone. When it comes to innova�on and crea�vity Prince Sebetha a former student of Ekurhuleni East Tvet College sets a good example. His journey with the College started back in 2016 when he enrolled in one of our campuses (Daveyton Campus) for Engineering and Related Design (fi�ng and Turning). I “ In the year 2019, Ekurhuleni East Tvet College Placement office changed my life completely and made my dream come true when I got an opportunity to go for a Mechatronics engineering internship in Luzhou Vocational and Technical DOCUMENTS REQUIRED 1. Student ID certified copy (x3) 2. Parent(s) / Guardian ID certified copy (x3) 3. Proof of address (x3) i.e The student's home address and not a box number. If a student comes from KZN, Limpopo, Soshanguve, etc the address must be from he/she comes from. Proof of address could be: 3.1 Certified Letter from the Local Municipality bearing the Municipality logo 3.2 Municipality bills receipt certified 3.3 Any retail shops certified statement such as Edgars as an example but not a bank statement 3.4 A letter from the traditional leader if coming from a village. The letter must bear the signature of the traditional leader and a stamp from the tradition leader. Trimester 2 registration starts: 20 April 2020 Classes commence: 11 May 2020 Trimester 3 registration starts: 17 August 2020 Classes commence: 07 September 2020 BUSINESS SCHOOL SCHOOL OF CREATIVE & SOCIAL SCIENCES Semester 2 registration starts: 22 June 2020 Classes commence: 13 July 2020 South Africa and the world and a shi� towards the fourth Industrial Revolu�on Prince is keeping up with the technology as he has an idea in mind of an inven�on of a health detec�on applica�on for the IPRINO that will be able to scan the body temperature and detect if there are any health problems and recommends a healing plan for the disorder, he quoted. “My dream is to see the IPRINO cell phone manufactured and sold in South Africa and in other African countries, as it will be the first cell phone designed by a black South African young man from a small disadvantaged and unrecognized village”, Prince Sebetha concluded.

College based in China”, said 4. Certified proof of income of parent(s) /Guardian (x1) BUSINESS SCH O O L | SCHOOL OF CREATIVE & SOCIAL SERVICES SPRINGS CAMPUS Sebetha. With the knowledge he got from the Mechatronics internship he designed a cell phone model demo and he named it IPRINO. 5. Student's bank statement (x1) 6. Lease agreement (x1) signed by both the student and the property owner 7. Certified Parent(s) Death Certificates (x1) 8. Certified student's results (x3) NB: ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BEAR A CERTIFICATION STAMP NOT OLDER THAN 3 MONTHS TO APPLY ONLINE: https://eecapp.eec.edu.za/pls/prodi03/gen.gw1pkg.gw1startup?x_processcode=ITS_OAP TEL: (011) 730 6600, WEBSITE: www.eec.edu.za, EMAIL: info@eec.edu.za