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6 Steps for Creating a Career Plan
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Self-Assessment
Carefully evaluate your individual strengths, lifestyle preferences, passions, work style, and financial needs.
Know both who you are as a person and who you desire to become as a professional. Take a careful inventory of your current career values, interests, skills, and personal qualities.
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Research
- Brainstorm possible job options and investigate them thoroughly.
- Learn about the descriptions and qualifications for various positions, typical entry points and advancement opportunities, satisfactions, frustrations, and other important facts.
- Speak with as many people as possible that are involved in work that is of interest to you to get an insider’s perspective.
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Experimentation
Internships and part-time jobs are an excellent way to sample a field of interest.
They provide the opportunity to perform some of the job functions, observe others work, and evaluate the “real world” workplace environment.
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Decision-Making
- Evaluate the pros and cons of the career options you have been researching.
- Since the landscape of the world-of-work is constantly changing, it may be unrealistic to aim for decisions based on absolute certainty.
- Self-awareness, occupational awareness, and intuition can all play a part in your decision-making process.
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Job Search
Most people engaged in an active job search will be involved with activities such as professional networking, identifying prospective employers, writing cover letters and resumes, and interviewing.
And finally, you will be offered a job and accept employment.
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Evaluate your current job satisfaction
Keep a journal of your daily reactions to your job situation and look for recurring themes.
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Assess your interests, values, and skills
Review past successful roles, volunteer work, projects and jobs to identify preferred activities and skills.
Determine whether your core values and skills are addressed through your current career.
Consider alternative careers
Brainstorm ideas for career alternatives by researching career options, and discussing your core values and skills with friends, family, and networking contacts.
If you’re having difficulty coming up with ideas, consider meeting with a career counselor for professional advice.
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Knowing Yourself
Begin by thinking about where you are now, where you want to be and how you're going to get there.
Work on getting to know your skills, interests and values.
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Finding Out
Explore jobs that interest you and ask yourself how do my skills and interests match up with these jobs?
- Where are the gaps?
- What options do I have to gain these skills or qualify for these jobs?
- What skills do I need?
- Where is the work?
You will now have a list of preferred jobs and/or learning options.
Making Decisions
Ask yourself:
- What are my best work/training options?
- How do they match with my skills, interests and values?
- How do they fit with the current jobs market? How do they fit with my current situation and responsibilities?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of each option?
- What will help and what will hinder me?What can I do about it?
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Purpose of Career Networking
It involves using personal, professional, academic or familial contacts to assist with a job search, achieve career goals, or learn more about your field, or another field you'd like to work in....
Top 7 Networking Tips
- Include the right people: anyone who can assist you with a career move
- Know what your career network can do for you
- Keep in touch - work your network: People are more willing to help when they know who you are
- Give to get - what can you do for your career network
- Keep track of your network:
make sure you know who is who, where they work, and how to get in touch.
- Network online
- Attend networking events.