Career Support

Career Planning

Your Career is not only your job. It is your way of being, your social environment, it takes most of your day and had a great influence on your private life. And it must lead you to standard of life which you want to achieve. It is obvois then, that you want your career to develop, to bring you benefits, and also, to give you a feeling of doing things that you want to do.

When thinking of revising your career, it is useful to make a Career Review, a method that helps you analyse your current situation, and make decisions, which might be the most important decisions in your life.

Here you will find tips how to conduct a Career Review.

Start with preparing a structured action plan. Although action plans are usually changing all the time, it is useful to have it written down and time-framed. This will help you gain commitment to your goals.

Creating your development plan, and working towards achieving your aims, can be divided into six easy steps.

1. Identify Your Goals

   Managing your career review is just like managing any other project: to achieve your objectives you need to set specific targets.
   
   Consider medium and long-term goals while also concentrating on your short-term goals, which should normally be more detailed.
   
   Resist the temptation to set vague goals and focus on developing specific competences relevant to your current job and future aspirations.

2. Determine the skills you need

   Once you have decided about your goals, think about the competences you will need to achieve them. This will help you to identify skills you need and understand what you need to include in your plan.

3. Focus your learning

   Identifying your goals may have produced a long list of skills you wish to develop. However, it is important to focus on a small number of areas at one time. It should be easy to decide on which areas to develop initially, as natural priorities will appear from your planning.

4. Plan to achieve

   To help you achieve your goals, you should draw up your own development plan,but remember – things can change in time. You will find unexpected career opportunities along the way, and it is important that you seriously consider them.

5. Record Your Progress

   Remember it is useful to keep records of what you have done, but it is even more useful to record what you have achieved. Do not limit yourself to recording formal meetings; try to capture all your experiences that contribute to your career planning and improving your focus.

6. Review

   It is essential to review your progress regularly!

Will you achieve your goals? You will see for yourself. Remember, that your career developing all the time, and given the right motivation and determination, your possibilities are limitless.