Career Planning

What is Career Planning?

Career planning is your life purpose plan.  It is a process of identifying the career that is suitable for you. It involves a significant amount of time and money, therefore a poor choice of career planning will lead you to a dead – end future.  Many people complain about the jobs they do because they are not their careers.  Unfounded decisions regarding your career plan affects health , your family but it also has a negative impact on national workforce. 

Career planning is a three- way process:

1. Self – exploration: Skills, values, Experience, Interests, finances

2. Occupational Exploration: researching about occupations, attending career fairs, interviewing about career prospective , gathering labor –market information

3. Educational and Career Planning : Decision making, goals setting,  implementing, monitoring and evaluation