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Career Guidance
If you choose the path of self-exploration, the following steps
must be taken in order to create your career plan.
- Take some self-assessment career
tests in order to identify your personality type, and help
uncover your innermost career desires. It is important to
really focus on doing some exploration here, and taking all of the
tests - be honest with yourself!
- Next, in your self career guidance, it is important
to find the segment of jobs and careers that fit the results of
your testing and brainstorming. Our career
information sections has TONS of information on different career
paths. Make sure to do your research on the jobs that you
think would fit your personality type, and make a list of the pros
and cons of each in a grid!
- Lastly, decide on 3 possible career pursuits, and lay out a path
for each one listing the steps you will need to take to achieve
your goal in each. For example, if I want to pursue an Information
Technology career path, I need to pick a discipline, schedule
some classes and training, develop a good resume and cover letter,
and look for open positoins. Each path should include a timeline.
Lastly, you need to pick ONE to pursue based on
your gut feeling about what would make you the happiest.
These high level career guidance tips should be followed in order
- in the end you will end up with a comprehensive career plan that you'll be excited to
follow!
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here to leave career guidance and return to career planning main!
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