Career Planning. Assessing The Experience Of The Others


by Michael Cockson - Date: 2010-08-04 - Word Count: 322 Share This!

To begin with, it should be stated that career planning often takes the whole life and entails not only selection of the workplace, but also presupposes professional development and growth of the experience. The components of career growth are as follows:

1.Getting a job

2.Growing and qualification improvement

3.Changes in career

4.Retiring

Career planning process involves all these components, and the planning should be properly performed in order to minimize unexpected effect of the unplanned or unforeseen obstacles. In accordance with the experience by other planners, the self-development process is the crucial component of the career planning in general. It is up to you to select, whether you will be working with people or with technologies, that is why you will have to assess your own abilities and skills.

Considering the fact that the most successful career planners are interested in their job, it should be emphasized that the factors of career planning should involve the following aspects:

1.Interests. Do not choose the job or profession you are not interested in, which is prestigious or fashionable.

2.Values. Define the system of your life values. This will help you to consider the means and tools of your career growth: whether you will be a severe careerist or an honorable and respected professional.

3.Roles. This point is one of the most complicated, as planning your career development and growth, you should think over the role of such components of life as family, job / career, hobbies and friends. This is the matter of priorities and the amount of time, which you will dedicate to each of these components.

4.Preferred environment. Try to imagine the surrounding scenery of your workplace. Is it in a comfortable office? Will you like frequent business trips? Will you be able to arrange business meetings and presentations every day?

Independently on the origins of you future career, the key recommendation is to assess and study the experience of others, and clearly imagine everything, associated with your life and job in particular.

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