Career Planning is a "do it yourself project". Schools, government organizations or agencies and their respective personnel can only place programs, assessments, activities or resources in front of students and clients. The work, in order to be long lasting and effective can only be accomplished by the individual.
Career Planning is a development process. Through this development process, each individual is guided on many things, such as how their future should be shaped and what kind of unique skills they should develop within themselves. For the young and older adult population, it is important for them to assess where they are if they are to meet their needs and turn their dreams into reality. The unemployed and unskilled worker in transition with little experience in the workforce has different needs from the young adult student looking to launch a first time professional or technical career. The older adult, who has been recently affected by an employer's reorganizations, faces a different set of issues. All populations can benefit from the career planning process of self-assessment, exploring career opportunities in the world of work and learning assertive job search strategies the produce results.
Career Planning Process:
The Career planning process is a continuous cycle divided into three parts. The picture below illustrates the process with the circle and three arrows. By starting at #1, Knowing yourself, we learn about our personal qualities and characteristics. The next step, #2, is to explore the world of work and assess that information with the previous knowledge about ourselves. The next step, #3, is to learn job search strategies to locate opportunities in the careers we have found interesting to us. The process and cycle continuous as we grow and develop through choices or circumstances to move to other occupations throughout our life time.
1. Self-Assessment is the process of "Knowing oneself". It is taking an inventory of someone's likes, dislikes, skills, abilities, personal characteristics, values, wants and needs. It is the first part of the career planning process. Before students/job seekers can determine what it is they would like to do in their career, they first need to discover who they are. People change, grow and develop. Therefore, it is necessary for everyone to re-assess themselves periodically.
Self assessment include evaluating one's:
- interests
- skills/abilities
- personality
- values
- lifestyle and financial goals
Self assessment evaluation can be either formal or informal. Informal-assessment is through counseling, activities and worksheets found in career publications, or workshops and seminars. Formal-assessment is in the form of standardized instruments or tests used by qualified counselors that have been researched and tested for reliability and validity. The next pages in this blogger @VocatioVista will discuss the uses of available assessments models (Holland Code, Personality Tests, Career Interest Tests, Multiple Intelligence Test etc) that using vastly in the field.
2. Career Exploration: after assessing one's self, the second step in the career planning process is to locate information about careers. Career information is everywhere. You need to know where resources are located and the kind of information they provide. Careers are rapidly changing and career information need to stay current with these changes.
Local publications and Resources:
- Classified ads in newspapers
- Job advertisements (TV, Radio stations, social media etc)
- Advertisements on bulletin boards.
- Trade and professional journals
- Local and national career and job fairs
- Internet
- Social Medias and related websites
- Local Public Employment Service Centers
3. Job Search / Job Market Research: after you have determined what you want to do you must find out where you want to work and what organizations or companies hire in your chosen field. Assessing the job market to find out where job opportunities exist is an integral part of the job search process. Below are a list of commonly asked questions about the job market and a list of resources where the answers can be found:
- what companies are hiring?
- what is the average salary for someone with similar skills and background in the field?
- what are the growth industries in the geographic are of choice?
- which industries most need people with the job seeker's/student's skills and experience?
- what are the major companies and the fastest growing companies in the area?
Resources:
- Networking
- Classified Ads
- Local Newspapers
- Chamber of Commerce
- Local Employment Offices or Job Centers
- Job hotlines / Electronic Bulletin boards
- Professional or Trade Associations
- Business Publications and Directories
- Private Employers
- State or Local Government
- Government sponsored training programs
- Career and job fairs
- Community colleges or Vocational Training schools
- Internet and social media
Every individual should carefully consider and analyze the three points mentioned above and set appropriate professional goals for themselves regarding their professional life, thereby achieving success in life.
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