subject: Some Words about Career Planning and How to Succeed in It [print this page] Some Words about Career Planning and How to Succeed in It
You should realize that career is a living creature made by you. To develop it successfully, you should recollect your past experience and then consider the gathered information. Can you define any general directions or strong points of you career? What events or proofs can be concerned to strong sides of your career? Describe the present relations with family and friends. How these mutual relations influence your choice in career? After thinking this over, make the conclusion of your thoughts: What do you want to get in your personal life in broad sense of this idea? What makes you happy? What alternative results of career will satisfy you? How do you see your career in 5, 10, 15 years? What results of career you used to avoid in the long-term planning? What results of career in the intermediate term plan (2-5 years) are preferable to you? What results of career in the intermediate term plan you plan to avoid? What results of career in a short-range plan (less than 2 years) are more preferable to you? What results of career you wish to avoid in a short-range plan? What do you wish to reach in the present work? How these aspirations coincide with other aspects of your life? Describe the perfect work for you. Concretize roles, problems, purposes, culture, conditions, people, values, encouragements etc. Career planning is not easy as it may seem and it has a lot of faces and meanings: Career means different concepts for different people; The concept of career has changed a lot during last 20 years. Now it is usually based mostly on the transaction, than on mutual relations; During human's life career develops through several stages; While planning your career, try to analyze the past, other events, family and public life that influence your career.
