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Steps in Planning Your Career

Step I - Dream
Career Planning begins with your dreams, hopes, wishes and goals. To find the work you love you need to figure out what you love to do. Sometimes our dissatisfaction with our job is a result of the lack of passion we feel for the work we do.

Step II - Self Awareness
Discovering yourself is the next step to developing your career plan. What are your skills and interests, what's your personality style, what do you feel passionate about and what do you really like to do? What kind of lifestyle do you want? What are your values? The more you know about yourself, your wants, needs, and desires, the more equipped you will be to make good decisions.

Step III - Discover Work
One of the secrets of developing an effective Career Plan is finding a creative fit between what you want and the job opportunities that exist for you. Looking for opportunities that will satisfy your passion for work and also provide for the things you value can be challenging, but job dissatisfaction can also wear you out. You may find that making changes won't be as difficult as you anticipate and the payback could be enormous.

Step IV - Plan
Planning can help you meet your goals, achieve results, direct your energies and unleash your potential. The key to career planning is to remember that it is your plan: you can change it and you choose how to achieve the results. Effectively stating both your short and long term goals and the steps you will take to meet those goals is the first step to achieving them.

Various standardized assessment tools, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, The Strong Interest Inventory, The Workplace Personality Index, the General Aptitude Test Battery and others, may be utilized where appropriate, to assist people in this process.  Group and work-unit sessions to assist with workplace issues are also provided.

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