Once you have had the chance to rank and review the potential occupations you have chosen and have carefully considered whether any of your choices raise any concerns, you have to make a basic decision whether:
- to continue with planning for your education around the choices you have made, or
- to go back through the decision-making process to identify an alternative set of potential occupations.
In either case, it is useful to document your decision-making to this point by creating a personal profile.
In your personal profile, you will identify your top interests, abilities, career needs and wants. You will state the kind of boss you would like to have and the kind of co-workers you would like to work with. You will write down the career options that interest you and the kinds of occupations you have considered as occupational goals. You will identify any concerns you have regarding reaching your career and/or occupational goals and will describe the strategies you intend to use in dealing with your concerns. You will indicate your educational goals, and as you develop it, your educational plan. Finally, you need to identify those persons you can turn to for counsel, advice, and assistance when you need it. Since all of this may change as you grow older, have new experiences, and gain new knowledge and skills, your entries need to be dated.
This document is something you should retain as an electronic document so that you may add to it and change it as you make new decisions, create new plans, or take new actions. As such, it can become a career development portfolio that tracks the decisions you make, the actions you take, what succeeds and what doesn't, how plans were altered and why, how circumstances changed and new plans had to be made. In other words, it will document your own career development over time, a valuable resource when you're faced with new decisions.
Activity 19
My Personal Profile - Activity 19
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