Developing a Career Plan in 3 Easy Steps
Career plan: Setting clear career goals and objectives is key to achieving job satisfaction, work-life balance, and overall wellbeing. When you have a simple, structured plan and understand the essential steps to reach your goals, you create clarity in your working life. Having a clear vision of where you want to go acts as a powerful motivator, significantly increasing your chances of long-term career success.
So, how do you start the process? Check out some tips from our Evolution team.
Self-Reflection
Looking at developing a career plan is the starting point when you are trying to start where you want to go in your future career. It’s critical for productivity and performance and it will allow you to gain some career outlook, measure your interests and goals. The reflection should be directed around your own personality, looking at your morals, skills and passions. This allows you to establish what you enjoy, both personally and professionally.
Goals
The Second step is to set measurable, achievable goals. You should already know about using SMART goals in the past, and this is still a useful technique to ensure you can strictly track your progress. Some advice is to share these with a friend, this will mean that someone else can hold you accountable and remind you of your own progress. Apparently by sharing your targets can carry a higher chance of success, with 75% of people who wrote them down and shared, achieved their targets.
Develop The Plan
Once you have your career, personal interests, and have some realistic goals written down, you can really start to dive into a plan of action. Possibly you need to develop a certain technical skill on a piece of software, get more experience in a certain industry, or even learn a new language. You firstly need to pinpoint what it is that’s stopping you from applying and changing your role. If you have a couple of possible career moves, map out the pros and cons of each, and evaluate with your values and benefits.
