| Title | Values and preferences in career decision making |
| Category | Professional Development |
| Overview | An opportunity to explore your values and personal preferences using the MBTI model, to understand how these can be used in career planning and decision making.
This session is about enabling you to articulate who you are and what is important to you in your working and personal life. It is designed as an opening to ongoing discovery around your ‘fit’ in different situations and environments, whilst encouraging acceptance and celebration of difference in the ways that we approach the world around us.
The session includes:
• Exploration of your core values.
• Understanding how your values currently relate to your work and life.
• Developing a plan to better align what you do to what is important to you.
• An introduction to and exploration of preference using MBTI.
• An introduction to how different preferences relate to each other and fit in different environments.
• How your MBTI preference relates to your work and career choices and changes you may wish to make. |
| Learning outcomes | |
| Presenter | David Foley |
| Location | CTC.3.03 |
| Campus | Causeway Teaching Centre |
| Date and time | 10:00 to 13:00 Monday 18 May 2026 |
| Duration | 03:00 |
| Available places | 25 |
| Presenter | David Foley |
| Location | CTC.3.03 |
| Campus | Causeway Teaching Centre |
| Date and time | 10:00 to 13:00 Monday 15 June 2026 |
| Duration | 03:00 |
| Available places | 23 |
| Presenter | David Foley |
| Location | CTC.3.03 |
| Campus | Causeway Teaching Centre |
| Date and time | 10:00 to 13:00 Thursday 2 July 2026 |
| Duration | 03:00 |
| Available places | 24 |
| University of Essex employee | Use the link provided above to book your place via HR Organiser. |
| Partner institution | Please discuss with your point of contact at your Partner Institution in the first instance. |
| Student Union contractors; PhD students | Please contact the Organisational Development team. |