Managing Your Career Research
Managing Your Career Research
Making career choices can be tough – and that’s why so many of us tend to ‘go with the flow’ rather than making conscious decisions about what they want to do and where they want to be. But there are real benefits to taking pro-active approach to managing your career.
The steps you need to take include:
· Career Research – find out information about the jobs available
· Fit – work out if that job suits you
· Advice – get some help along the way, to make sure all bases are covered
· Decide – make the call and choose where you want to be
· Plan – how you will get there (development, work experience, change etc)
Considering that you might be working for in excess of 40 years – it’s worth the investment.
It’s really no different to the process you go through when choosing to go to a movie and some people spend more time doing that! Imagine… 40 years of doing something that you weren’t really sure about?
Imagine… the effect that could have on the other parts of your life?
The benefits of planning
There are clear benefits from planning your career:
• It puts you in control and gets you ready for opportunity
• Gives you more flexibility
• Allows you to anticipate some change
• Gives you a chance to react more quickly to unexpected changes
• Makes you feel like you are driving and not being driven by others
Oh yes, there is one more reason and tremendous benefit to you career planning, no one else is doing it for you right now!
As the proverb says: “If you don’t know where you are going then that’s where you will end up
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