Whether you are making your first occupational choice, or considering a return to the job market through a new career, there is a proven career search process that can support your success. Career experts advise taking time out every five or so years for this type of self assessment as your needs and the workplace change. Here are the ten steps to finding the career that's right for you.
STEP 1: Take time out to learn about your interests, values and priorities, as well as your aptitudes and skills. Consider the work environment that best fits your personality style. Career assessment using tools such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Inventory can help you learn about occupations that might be a natural fit for you.
STEP 2: Generate a list of career options for you to research. This can come from the career assessment, your own ideas, brainstorming with a career coach or savvy friend or family member to come up with occupations that you would like to learn more about
STEP 3: Research those career options. Set specific goals with small, achievable steps along with way. For example, if you are interested in investigating the career of physical therapist, start by reading about this career on line and then interviewing a physical therapist or making a site visit to observe a physical therapy unit.
STEP 4: Focus and narrow down your options. Decide what you need to have in your career and measure those options against that criteria. In career coaching we use a decision matrix which can be very helpful in the process.
STEP 5: Reality test. This is a step that people often want to skip, but it's critically important. What actions can you take to learn what this career would really be like on an everyday basis? Could you take a class, visit a job site, or volunteer or intern?
STEP 6: Decide. Once you have taken the above steps, you know what you need and what the options offer. Then, making a decision is much easier.
STEP 7: Plan. What are the logical things that you must do to act on your career choice?
STEP 8: Act on the plan. For example, if you had decided to become a physical therapist you would want to begin taking as many science classes as possible and maybe volunteering at a physical therapy unit to gain experience.
STEP 9: Re-evaluate. As you act on the plan, new information is bound to come up that will cause you to modify or change your goal. That's why it's a good idea to have a Plan A, Plan B and even a Plan C!
STEP 10: Remember the process! Since research shows most of us will change careers multiple times in our lifetime, you may well be using this proven process again.
STEP 1: Take time out to learn about your interests, values and priorities, as well as your aptitudes and skills. Consider the work environment that best fits your personality style. Career assessment using tools such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Inventory can help you learn about occupations that might be a natural fit for you.
STEP 2: Generate a list of career options for you to research. This can come from the career assessment, your own ideas, brainstorming with a career coach or savvy friend or family member to come up with occupations that you would like to learn more about
STEP 3: Research those career options. Set specific goals with small, achievable steps along with way. For example, if you are interested in investigating the career of physical therapist, start by reading about this career on line and then interviewing a physical therapist or making a site visit to observe a physical therapy unit.
STEP 4: Focus and narrow down your options. Decide what you need to have in your career and measure those options against that criteria. In career coaching we use a decision matrix which can be very helpful in the process.
STEP 5: Reality test. This is a step that people often want to skip, but it's critically important. What actions can you take to learn what this career would really be like on an everyday basis? Could you take a class, visit a job site, or volunteer or intern?
STEP 6: Decide. Once you have taken the above steps, you know what you need and what the options offer. Then, making a decision is much easier.
STEP 7: Plan. What are the logical things that you must do to act on your career choice?
STEP 8: Act on the plan. For example, if you had decided to become a physical therapist you would want to begin taking as many science classes as possible and maybe volunteering at a physical therapy unit to gain experience.
STEP 9: Re-evaluate. As you act on the plan, new information is bound to come up that will cause you to modify or change your goal. That's why it's a good idea to have a Plan A, Plan B and even a Plan C!
STEP 10: Remember the process! Since research shows most of us will change careers multiple times in our lifetime, you may well be using this proven process again.
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A recruiting article by Dougles Chan - A recruitment mentor that speciliased in recruitment training and recruitment mentoring in Singapore and globally.
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