Planning Your Career in a Week

This book seeks to set out a clear model of how to approach the process of career planning. It includes a number of exercises to complete, and it identifies the key steps in the career planning process, such as learning what we want from work, deciding what we are good at and what we enjoy, collecting information about job options, setting a course for the future and making a career plan, and taking the first steps in putting our career plan into practice.

Planning Your Career in a Week

Wendy Hirsh, Charles Jackson

Teach Yourself.

2016

Abstract

Planning your career just got easierVery few of us put much effort into planning for the kind of career we want. Thinking about where we are going at work is something we all need to do throughout our working lives. The nature of work and employment is always changing. When economic times are difficult, you need to show potentialemployers that you have something special to offer. You may also need to be more flexible in your plans. New kinds of jobs emerge all the time and many labour markets are becoming increasingly specialized.

This means you need to find out more about the kinds of jobs that interest you, and you need to understand what employers are looking for and how people get these jobs. By working through a simple series of steps and exercises, you can help yourself to be clearer about what you want, what your options are, and how to move forward. Exercises in each chapter will help you build a collection of information and reflect on what you are learning about yourself and the process of career planning as you go along.

Planning Your Career In A Week looks at one step in this process of career planning on each day of the week: