Career Planning
The stages of Career Planning
If you have finished school and are looking at career options, it's important to plan your career. In order to help you develop a career plan, you need to go through all the stages of career planning to effectively map out your path to success.
The more information you have on hand and can identify, the better and more unique your plan will be. It's important to map out a career that is relevant and appropriate to your unique wants and needs.
There are five stages of career planning
Stage 1 : Self-assessment
- Learning about myself.
- Having a clear picture of your unique talents, interests, values and skills will be the base of your career-planning journey. This is a great start to knowing yourself.
Stage 2 : Exploring options
- Learning about available opportunities for work and education.
- Once your have a clear idea of your interests, skills and the things you value, you can start exploring options. Gather information through research about occupations of the world of work, education and training opportunities or consultations regarding Psychological Assessment
State 3 : Making decisions
- Deciding on my future path
- Once you have explored your options, the next step is narrowing down the work and / or training field on which you would like to focus. Take time to analyse the options you have explored and make decisions about what path your want to pursue.
Stage 4 : Setting goals and creating your career plan
- Creating a plan
- You have identified your career path, now identify the steps you need to take to start moving towards your chosen field. Prepare an action plan and chart your course.
Stage 5 : Implementing your plan
- Setting my plan into action
- Keep in mind that you may have to make some changes to keep yourself on track or set a new course when unexpected opportunity arise
