What is Career Planning?
Career Planning is the important process of determining the ideal career for you and figuring out how to turn it into reality. It is estimating, predicting and calculating all the steps needed to achieve your goals.
Effective career planning is a process that can continue throughout your work life. As your life changes, so too can your career plan to reflect your new situation.
The ways in which careers have been viewed has been steadily changing over the years. Careers have changed from being clearly defined to increasingly fluid. The once well defined career paths have been replaced with paths that go in all directions.
With the changing look of careers taking place it is becoming increasingly important to focus on career planning.
Benefits of career planning include:
- Manage stress of organizational change
- Develop meaningful career goals and objectives
- Develop a skill portfolio
- Increase job satisfaction
- Plan your learning needs
- Improve communication and alignment
How can I start Planning my Career?
There are several ways all employees can access tools and resources to identify their personal career goals and ways to achieve those goals:
1. Assess and evaluate what interests and matters to you
2. Identify short-term and long-term goals
3. Determine the action to achieve your goals
Career Development Plan (CDP) Template
Consider enrolling in the Pathways to Learning course on Career Planning to help you further explore your career path. Information on the course can be found here: Career Planning