subject: Career Planning: How To Choose The Right Profession? [print this page] Good career planning is like good business planning. You start with determining your aims and targets. Determine what you can offer to potential employers, also you should determine potential markets for your professional knowledge and abilities. Research of your potential employers will help you to learn more about demands of these companies, and allow determining hose markets where you will be competitive. Then you determine the level of your knowledge and abilities on the basis of information received from the market. Then you should develop a strategy to follow.
Successful career planning implies several steps to make consequently. Until you are sure in your aims, you cannot make the right choice of companies. Until you have no idea of what is popular now, you cannot offer your abilities to employer. So you should plan your career logically, consequently and successfully! You shouldnt try to perform several actions. Keep strict order.
How to Plan Career Effectively
If you think of career planning seriously and consciously, you should understand that career planning is:
Deeply personal and individual affair;
Its a process that will take whole your life; effective career planning is art to be developed and mastered; every time you have a chance to change or correct something;
It takes a lot of time and efforts (unfortunately, its impossible to reach the highest point quickly);
Its necessary that you write down all your thoughts and ideas to see them clearly. As if they dont have clear image, they will be unreachable;
It implies intercourse and interconnections with other people (gathering of information, search for help, talks with colleagues, recruiters, head-hunters, brainstorm of problems, etc);
It makes you take risks and show you cards (for example, when you tell employer about your aims and interests, but you are not sure that they are valuable for him/her and you wont be rejected);
It is based both on true information and your emotions (your intuition and foresight are your best helpers and advisors);
It is astonishing and exciting occupation, if you do everything correctly (it gives you a chance to get extra-knowledge, expand professional and personal horizons, and meet interesting people).
