Choosing what to study can become difficult when you receive different advice, you like several subjects or you know little about the work that each degree leads to. It can also happen that you are already studying and want to review your choice. To sort out those doubts, you need to recognize what interests you and find out what training and working in each area involves.

Online vocational guidance: find what to study and how to start

The NoSeQueEstudiar career test offers recommendations for degrees and careers based on your answers. Those suggestions can bring you closer to alternatives you had not considered yet and give you concrete options to compare.

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What is Vocational Guidance?

Vocational guidance is a process of reflection and research for making decisions about your education and your professional project. It considers your interests, the skills you have or want to develop, your priorities and the study options available.

You might like biology, enjoy practical work and need a class schedule compatible with your job. Each detail answers a different question: what you want to learn, how you prefer to work and what conditions you need to sustain your choice.

What is Online Vocational Guidance?

It is a guidance modality carried out online through questionnaires, educational content and remote professional consultations. It includes resources you use on your own and, if you request support, spaces to talk about your particular situation.

The work can be organized around specific questions: «What areas interest me?», «What would studying this degree be like?» or «What makes me hesitate between these alternatives?». Depending on the question, you will need to examine your preferences, review academic information or explore a concern in depth with a counselor. Identifying what you need to resolve lets you make better use of each resource.

Advantages of Online Vocational Guidance

  • Flexibility: you can research on schedules compatible with your classes, work, and personal responsibilities.
  • Access to more options: you learn about programs and occupations that may not appear among the recommendations from those around you.
  • Unhurried comparison: you can return to a profile, review its contents, and compare several options before enrolling.
  • Better-prepared questions: you come to a conversation with an institution or a counselor knowing what you need to ask.

Platform Specialized in Vocational Guidance

A question like “I like video games” leaves open very different decisions. Are you drawn to programming their mechanics, designing how their screens are used, or researching what makes the experience difficult for players? Recognizing that difference lets you look for training based on the activities you want to learn, as well as the sector you find appealing.

NoSeQueEstudiar brings together information about degrees, careers and institutions to explore those possibilities. A degree profile describes the program; a career profile explains tasks and work settings. Consulting them together lets you understand the relationship between what you would study and its possible applications.

Online Vocational Guidance Tools

Career test: answer from your own experience

To access the test you need to create an account or log in. Think about activities you enjoy, problems that spark your curiosity, and situations you would like to be part of.

Answer according to your current preferences. Something can interest you even if you have not yet had the chance to practice it. It is also useful to separate your tastes from family expectations or the prestige you associate with a career.

Results: identify what attracts you in each recommendation

When reviewing the results of the career test, you can review the recommendations, the personality profile, and mark favorites. Choose three options and write down, for each one, a subject you would like to learn, a professional task that interests you, and an outstanding question.

Look for what sustains your interest in each option. If a subject excites you, check how much space it takes up in the curriculum. If a career appeals to you, find out what training usually leads to it. When a recommendation is unfamiliar to you, read its description before deciding whether it deserves to stay among your favorites.

You can also note down what information would change your choice: learning about the internships of a degree, talking to someone who works in the field or confirming class schedules. That question turns a broad doubt into a specific inquiry you can carry out.

Degrees and careers: learn about the tasks behind the name

The degree finder and the career directory let you examine differences that a general label, such as "technology", leaves open:

  • In Software Development, programming involves breaking down problems, testing solutions and fixing errors. Ask yourself if that work of analysis and revision interests you.
  • In Digital Product Design, you can explore user experience. A user experience designer can investigate why it is hard to complete a form, propose changes and test them with people.
  • In Biotechnology, the training combines biology and chemistry content with experimental work. Consider how much you are drawn to studying biological processes and applying laboratory procedures.

Pay attention to the usual tasks, including those that require patience, practice and repetition. They are part of the professional experience you are considering.

Where to study: assess the complete offering

In Where to Study you can search by institution, degree and location. Then, check with each center the current information about its offerings:

  • Study plan: compulsory subjects, internships and admission requirements.
  • Commitment: duration, schedules and study time outside class.
  • Modality: in-person or online classes and activities that require attendance.
  • Costs: enrollment, fees, materials, transportation and available scholarships.
  • Degree: name of the degree and official recognition depending on the country.

If you work, put together a sample week that includes commuting, classes and study. That distribution can reveal difficulties that the class schedule, by itself, does not show.

Personalized online counseling

The virtual vocational counseling allows you to talk with a professional about the questions that need further discussion: how to prioritize two degrees, what to do about differing family expectations or how to approach a change of studies.

Prepare your results and a specific question. «I am attracted to these subjects, but I don't know what working in the field would be like» addresses a different concern than «I am interested in this degree, but I need to fit it around my job». In NoSeQueEstudiar you can request contact with a guidance specialist. 

Frequently asked questions about online vocational guidance

Is the career test free?

Yes. The NoSeQueEstudiar test is free and you can retake it. To access it you need an account. Individual support has conditions that you must check separately.

Do I need to have a degree in mind to start?

You can do it without a defined choice. Answer based on the activities and topics that interest you, even if you still don't know which careers they relate to.

What do I do if I am interested in several degrees?

Choose one essential criterion and one desirable one. For example, being able to take classes while you work may be essential, while studying close to home may be a preference. Compare the alternatives against those priorities.

Is it useful if I have already started studying or am working?

You can use it to review your interests. Use your experience to identify what you want to change: the subjects you study, the tasks you do, your specialty, or your working conditions. Each reason creates different training needs.

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