This document provides information and advice for career planning and finding a career path that fits an individual. It discusses common questions around career choice and planning. It outlines several multi-step processes for effective career planning, including identifying options, prioritizing factors, setting goals and taking action. Journaling daily activities is suggested to better understand one's interests and strengths. Networking and interviewing people in fields of interest is also presented as a way to inform decision making. While planning is important, the document acknowledges that career plans may evolve over time.

1. Plan a Career True to You
Why am
I doing this?
W
hat do
I want?
Why don’t I know where I am going?
How
does they seem
to know
where they are going?
Can I change my mind?
Where am I going?
How
can I have a career that fits me?
How does my career define me?
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Susan McKenzie
@MathSusan

2. “What do you want to do when you grow up?”

3. How do you plan your
career?

4. https://gecd.mit.edu/explore-careers/career-first-steps/make-career-plan
8 Steps to an Effective Career Plan
1. Identify Your Career Options
2. Prioritize
3. Make Comparisons
4. Consider Other Factors
5. Make a Choice
6. Set “SMART Goals
7. Create Your Career Action Plan
8. Meet with a Career Advisor

5. Five Steps to Career Planning
1.Reflection and Self-Evaluation
2.Exploration
3.Decision-Making and Goal Setting
4.Gaining Experience
5.Implementation
http://cravencc.edu/students/career-transfer-services/five-steps-to-career-planning/

6. https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/31/how-to-plan-career-success

7. https://hbr.org/2013/09/dont-let-your-career-just-happ

12. What is out of my control?

13. What can you control?

14. Journal for several days

15. Journal
• Journal each day for a few weeks (get a good sample of
your daily activities)
• What were you doing? Where were you?
• Who did you interact with? What role did they play?
• What were you interacting with? (PC, Ipad, plants?)
• What did you hate?
• What did you enjoy?

17. Now what?
• We know
• where we are
• why we are doing things
• what energizes us

18. Brainstorm

23. Next step
• Narrow down your choices
• Talk to people who do similar things

24. Expand your network

25. Interview people

26. I have a plan!

27. Perfect Plan?

33. Thank you!
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@MathSusan