2. PROPER PLANNING
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3. CAREER PLANNING
The first and most important step in preparing your career
plan is to identify your skills, abilities, interests and
preferred work style.
You must be able to recognise your own strengths and
weaknesses if you are to be able to establish an effective
career plan so you must be completely honest in your self-
assessment
You should not only look at your skills but also at your
personality as this too can determine the sort of job that
you are suited for.
4. CAREER PLANNING AND GUIDANCE
Your career planning AND plan should be based on where
you want to be in five or ten years time rather than on how
much you want to be earning
Although a salary can also be a motivation but working in
an environment you not happy in, may create a miserable
life.
You should be looking for jobs that can ultimately get you
to where you want to be.
5. CAREER PLANNING AND GUIDANCE
You should be looking for jobs that can ultimately get you to where
you want to be in the near future.
Make contact with people who are already working in the role you
want to achieve
find out how they got there and plan what steps you therefore need to
take.
E.g. if you want a career path in teaching associate yourself with
teachers and find out how they got there.
6. CAREER PLANNING AND GUIDANCE
The next stage is to think about what you want to achieve from your
new job.
Take some time thinking about what job you would ideally like to do,
carry out some research on the Internet and decide whether or not your
attributes are in alignment with the essential criteria for such a role.
When planning your career, it is important to aim high and be
ambitious but also to be realistic
7. CAREER PLANNING AND GUIDANCE
Career planning is an ongoing process that can be updated and
changed according to whether or not you have developed any new
skills since you prepared your career plan.
It is important that your career plan is flexible enough for you to be
able to consider other options that you may not have taken into
account.
. If you have successfully identified your key strengths and weaknesses,
and researched your target markets, the ideal opportunity should be
out there for you
8. CAREER PLANNING AND GUIDANCE
Once your career plan is in place, all that is left now is to implement it!
Having dedicated a considerable amount of time working out what you
want from your career and how you can achieve it.
No matter how long your career search takes, the career plan should be
referred back to on a regular basis just to keep you focused on what
you are aiming to achieve.