This document provides guidance on career planning and outlines several key steps. It discusses evaluating your interests by making a list of enjoyable activities and reflecting on the skills and challenges involved. Determining your career goal is also addressed, noting it should be based on your skills, interests, and opportunities while guiding your path rather than drifting. The overall process involves understanding your interests and skills, researching career options that match them, and preparing for your targeted career.
3. Planning
• Steps:
– What are your interest?
– What do you want to be?
– What are your skills?
– What types of careers fit your
skills and interest?
– How do you prepare for the
career?
4. Interest
• What are your interests?
–What do you like to do? Think
about experiences you have
enjoyed. What kind of school,
religious, social, or sports
activities do you like?
5. Interest
• What are your interests?
–Make a list of 10
activities you have
enjoyed doing in the
past four years.
6. Interest
• What are your interests?
–Evaluate those interests.
Think about what you liked
about the activities. What
challenges did the activities
offer? What skills do you
need to develop further to
continue in those activities?
7. Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?
A career goal helps you focus on
what you want to do for a
living. A career goal can be a
specific job you want to do -such as doctor or teacher -- or
a career goal can be a
particular field you want to
work in, such as medicine or
education.
8. Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?
Rather than limiting your
future, a career goal may
help you discover career
possibilities that you
wouldn't have thought of
otherwise.
9. Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?
A career goal will also guide you
into doing what you want with
your life -- rather than just
drifting into a job.
10. Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?
Generally, a career goal is
based on your skills and
interests, career
possibilities, and job trends.