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A succinct, detailed career plan is one of the most useful tools you can use to identify where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there.
Without a plan, you may find that your career and experience begin to misalign with your real goals and aspirations.
Importantly, in having a plan, you must also commit to reviewing and reassessing it, as your circumstances or preferences may have changed since the last time you set out your objectives.
Here are five key steps to help you create your own career plan.
To discover what you really want to do, try answering these fundamental questions about your personality, preferences and values in your career plan. Take note about whether these are your current feelings and attitudes, or whether they are more long-term ideals:
While self-evaluation is an important first step, you should be cross-checking your priorities and preferences with what’s going on in your specific market or sector. You should also be researching upcoming developments, challenges and job opportunities, as this could absolutely affect your decision-making and intended career path.
You don’t want to find out later or when it’s too late that your role has been outsourced or taken over by AI.
So ask yourself:
As well as your personal preferences, your existing skills are an important indicator of the direction in which you could head. Reflect on your skillset with the following questions:
Based on your key interests, attributes, skills and experience, you can now start to formulate ideas on the type of roles and industries that will suit you best.
Try brainstorming as part of your career plan:
Now that you have an idea of where you want to go, it’s time to work out how you can get there.
Ask yourself the following questions to help break down your goals into smaller, more manageable milestones for your career plan:
Having established your goals and how to achieve them, you will now have a better sense of direction and importantly, the actions needed.
It’s important to monitor the progress of your career plan every quarter, or at the very least every six months, to ensure that you are on track to meet your goals.
Re-evaluating your career plan and goals allows you to also make adjustments based on changing economic and personal circumstances.