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6 Steps for Creating a Career Plan
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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Evaluate your current job satisfaction
Keep a journal of your daily reactions to your job situation and look for recurring themes.
Which aspects of your current job do you like and dislike? Are your dissatisfaction...
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.
Ask yourself:&nbs...
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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Leverage Your Competitive Advantage
Career plans should leverage your assets, set you in direction of your aspirations, and account for the market realities.
- Articulate educated hypotheses about each...
Prioritize Learning
A person with a foundation of knowledge and skills will make more money and most likely live a more meaningful life.
There’s a similar belief in start-ups: technology companies focus on learning over profitability in the early years to maximize revenue in the later years.
Prioritize plans that offer the best chance at learning about yourself and the world. Ask yourself, “Which plan offers the most learning potential?”
Learn by Doing
Any entrepreneur (and any expert on cognition / learning) will tell you that practical knowledge is best developed by doing, not just thinking or planning.
For careers, too, you don’t know what the best plan is until you try.