Introduction

Step 1. Your current

situation

Step 2. Your future direction

Step 3. Your career

plan

Step 4. Taking action

You will start with what you already know about yourself and what you do in your current role. Then consider what possible future positions might match with your skills, strengths, ambitions, and interests. Follow this by creating a vision of where you would like to end up, and listing the actions you need to take to achieve your longer term career goals.

At each step, take time to reflect, review and record your answers on your Career Planning Worksheet.

As you work through this book you will focus on four key areas:

Click here to download and print a planning worksheet to guide your thinking. Use it to plan your actions and next steps as you progress through each of the four key areas.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

Career development starts with you, you own your career and you make your own future.

This book outlines actions to help you consider your skills, strengths, personality, interests, and the next steps you might want to take in order to have a happy and fulfilling career.

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