This document discusses career planning and constructive thinking. It defines career planning as assessing one's learning and development over time to take charge of their professional future. The process of career planning involves self-assessment, self-development, research, developing an action plan, and taking action. The document also lists 10 facts about careers learned after college and discusses characteristics of constructive thinking such as acceptance, flexibility, and problem-solving focus compared to destructive thinking.

1. CAREER PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING

2. CONTENTS
• WHAT IS CAREER PLANNING?
• PROCESS OF CAREER PLANNING
• IMPORTANCE OF CAREER PLANNING
• 10 CAREER FACTS YOU'LL LEARN AFTER COLLEGE
• CAREER IN HORTICULTURE
• CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING
• CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING
• CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING VS DESTRUCTIVE THINKING

3. WHAT IS CAREER PLANNING?
Career planning is a subset of career management. Career planning
applies the concepts of Strategic planning and Marketing to taking charge
of one's professional future. Career is an ongoing process and so it needs
to be assessed on continuous basis. This process of re-assessing
individual learning and development over a period of time is called
Career Planning.

4. PROCESS OF CAREER PLANNING
1.Self-Assessment
2. Self-Development
3. A Thorough Research Self Development
4. Come up with Action Form
5. Action

5. IMPORTANCE OF CAREER PLANNING
• It is important to come up with your career planning as it gives you the much-needed direction
and makes it clear there where you see yourself in future. It makes you aware of your
strength and weaknesses and the skills and knowledge that are required to achieve your goals
in future.
• A large proportion of our life is spent in achieving our career goals; thus, it is very important to
make sure that right steps were taken and correct planning was done in the early years of
your life. There are very few lucky ones who are born with a clear mind and who knows what
they want to do and where they see themselves in life ahead. But majority of us are not sure
what we want from life and so it is very important to plan out things. Thus, career planning
is what gives your career and in some way your life, true meaning and purpose.

6. 10 CAREER FACTS YOU'LL LEARN AFTER COLLEGE
1. You're not limited to jobs in the field you got your degree in.
2. Your degree isn't always that important to employers.
3. Some employers won't even require you to have a degree.
4. There are jobs you've never even heard of in your field.
5. Grades don't matter.
6. College is about networking.
7. Some degrees pay better than others.
8. College does not prepare you for a job.
9. Employers don't want to train you to do a job.
10. It's okay to change your mind.

7. CAREER IN HORTICULTURE

9. CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING
• This is a process that will help you solve problems with a minimum amount of
stress.
• A constructive thinker’s thoughts are positive and action-oriented.

10. CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING
•Acceptance
•Self-confidence
•Avoiding labelling
•Flexibility
•Problem-solving focus

11. CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING VS DESTRUCTIVE THINKING
CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING DESTRUCTIVE THINKING
Presenting reasons and evidences in
support of ideas.
Making emotional arguments; insisting
other should listen to you because of
your experience or credentials.
Listening closely to others` viewpoints. Rejecting others` viewpoint before you
fully understand their position.
Building on others idea and suggestions. Ignoring and dismissing others idea.