Step 1: Self-Reflect
IN THIS LESSON
Reflect on both your short-term and long-term career plans. Are you heading towards your long-term goals? Or, have your plans changed?
Sometimes we make quick career decisions without thinking about the long-term impact. Pause and reflect on the long-term plan and paths to get there. Take 20-30 minutes to refresh or create your career development plan.
Career Development Plan:
It's time to dust off your career development plan and see where you’re at. If you don’t have a career development plan, create one.
Every career development plan should have six sections: Vision, Values, Assets, Career Path(s), Development Plan, and Actions.
Let me break it down.
1. 3-5 Year Career Vision: set the stage for what you want to do in the future. A brief statement.
2. Values: what are your top 3 values as the basis for your career decisions.
3. Your Assets: what are your current strengths, skills, experiences, knowledge, and network that you want to utilize in your future career.
4. Career Path(s): list three potential career paths and the potential roles over the next 5 years.
5. Development Plan: list the skills, experiences, knowledge, and network needed to achieve each of the career path options and an action that can help achieve it.
6. Actions: of the development plan options, what actions do you want to take over the next 1, 3, and 6 months.
Take some time to reflect and refresh your career development plan, thinking about the roles that are of interest to you now and how they align to your plan or not. What do you think about that?
Looking at this full picture will give you insights into what role you really want to take next.
Take 30 minutes to write or refresh your career development plan and see what roles align to your plan.