Self-exploration is a vital step in the process of career planning and development. Through reflecting on personal experiences and researching, students could identify their interests, values, strengths, and skills to find their suitable and desired careers. Check out how we empower you to craft a fulfilling future! 

Identify your passions

Personality assessment is one of the effective methods to identify your true passions and have a comprehensive self-understanding. Through the de-briefing by our career advisors, students will receive suggestions of matched industries, how you behave at work, how you could team up with people of diverse backgrounds, and how to cope with work stress. The personality assessment workshops will be arranged regularly during semesters. Join and start to plan your career with us!

DISC and Communication in workplace
Career planning through MBTI
Realising your STRENGTHS for goal accomplishments

Invest in your soft skills for the future workplace

Soft skills are considered to be one of the most crucial factors when employers hire talent. Students are encouraged to understand and advance different types of soft skills which make them more relevant to the industries and allow them to achieve career advancement. Creativity, Cross-Cultural Awareness, Networking Skills, and Resilience are suggested to be some major skills required in the future workplace. You may take a self-evaluation survey at the CUHK Career Success App and consider the result as one of the references when building up your profile.  

Agility
Creativity
Cross-cultural awareness
Resilience
Leadership skills
Networking skills
Resilience
Agility
It is about the capacity of reacting favourably in situations that require prompt actions and handling emergencies.
Creativity
It refers to whether the student could analyse and solve issues with an innovative approach.
Cross-cultural awareness
It refers to students’ capacity to respect, understand, and work with people from different countries and backgrounds. It is also about the open-mindedness and initiative to learn and appreciate a different culture and value.
Resilience
The It is about students’ capacity to encounter stress, adversity, and difficulties at the workplace and how they adapt effectively in the changing world.
Leadership skills
It is the ability to lead and influence others, as well as collaborate with others for achieving the best outcome.
Networking skills
It refers to students’ ability to mingle and communicate with people of different backgrounds effectively.
Resilience
It is about students' capacity to encounter stress, adversity, and difficulties in the workplace and how they adapt effectively in the changing world.

Research industries online

Good career planning and management involve the exploration and understanding of industry knowledge. Students shall learn industry-specific languages and research the market information of the desired industries to strengthen their career awareness. You are recommended to visit Firsthand where you find detailed information on numerous industries, and Graduate First where you access more than 70 types of aptitude and psychometric tests used by conglomerates and international employers regularly. Full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students are eligible to access these platforms with their university email addresses. Immerse yourself in the online career intelligence portals and participate in our diversified guidance workshops for in-depth career insight!