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CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Self-Assessment – Know yourself to Grow Yourself

Record your Life Experiences
Learning Experiences

This would include general educational development, high school, college, University. They could also include informal Education and Training (Workshops, Seminars, etc) and Learning from Life experiences like volunteering, family life etc. for e.g (Family vacation)

Significant Others

Ask yourself questions like : 1. Who will influence my Career Decisions? Who could help me in Identify my strengths and potential Challenges ?

Personal Attributes *

This will help you in identifying your Personal style

Write down 10 of your strongest Personal Attributes
Work Values *

Knowing and understanding what’s important to you about your concept of work will help you to choose a Career and work environment that matches your values! It’s always good to identify the reasons, understand the importance to make a Career Decision!! Read through the following work values and select against the ones that are important to you !

Use the space below to list down the 5 most important values based on the selection you have made from the value table :

Your likely place importance will change over time with experience and exposure but you need to choose your Career based on your core values

Interests

Interests are things that you like to do. Make of list of what you are interested in. With a methodical planning your interests can be aligned to your Career goals :

INTEREST INVENTORY : List your 10 favorite Interests (ex. Learning, Reading, traveling, coaching, fixing things, building things etc.)
Skills

Skills are things that you are able to do. Some skills are Job Specific and can be used in only one line of work. Skills that can be used in occupations are known as transferable skills. You can have these in school, college or volunteering through life experiences.

While making your Career plan you need to have the right balance of “Soft Skills” , also called Employability skills, these are the skills you need to enter, stay in, progress in the world of work and “Hard skills” are technical in nature based on your stream of specialization :

List of skills Employers generally look for: Communication, Problem Solving, Positive Attitude, Adaptability, Working with Others, Science, technology , Math and Functional skills,