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Ch. 4  Developing Your Career Plan
Step 1 
Summarizing Your Career Goals

You have just completed three chapters in this career workbook that: 1) outlined the process of career planning, 2) evaluated your personal/professional characteristics that will affect your career journey, and 3) collected information from print and electronic media, and interviewed professionals to learn special details about your career choice.  This process should help you be more certain about your career choice.  If you need to put extra time in any of the previous chapters to feel more certain, now is the time to do so, otherwise it is time to summarize your career planning work accomplished so far.

The summary will consist of three parts: 

  • Preliminary career plans: Take the information that you developed in Chapter 1, (the seven pages about your Career Dream) and condense this information into one section about your original career ideas.  This section should be no longer than 250 words.
  • Your personal/professional profile: Take the information that you developed in Chapter 2, and write a few sentences about each section of that chapter.  The writing should indicate how the profile that is you will succeed in the career choice you have selected. The total of this section should be no longer than 250 words.
  • Career information collected: Take the information that you developed in Chapter 3, and summarize the important facts into your career plan.  Indicate the things that were of most importance to you in this summary.  What did you find in your industry research that assisted you in your career choice?  The total of this section should be no longer than 250 words.
  • Conclusions:  In this section wrap it all up, restate the things found in the previous sections that reinforce your career decisions.  Also in this section list the educational components needed to conclude your career goal.  Also list the industry experience you will need to reach this goal.  This section should be about 250 words.
 
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