Step-by-Step Career Planning Guide
What is Career Planning?
If you wanted to buy a new car, chances are you wouldn't head out the door one day to a car dealer, point to a car and say I'll take it. Before you went to the car dealer, you would probably have thought about how much driving you do and where, how long you want the car to last, how much gas mileage you want to get, your favorite color, and how much you can afford to pay.
Figuring out your career direction is similar. Before you apply for a Massachusetts health care job or to a college, you need to:
- think about your needs,
- investigate health care career resources
- research and compare your health care job options, and
- evaluate your financial situation.
In a nutshell, career planning consists of these steps:
- Assessing your skills, interests, and values
- Learning about occupations that best match your interests and skills
- Researching further education or training needed
- Identifying your family/work/school priorities
- Determining the cost of education and how you will pay for it
- Developing a plan to reach your goal, and
- Implementing your plan
This section of The Pulse will help guide you through those steps. You can do the steps in order or you can choose to start with those that best reflect where you are in your career planning process.
Click below to choose from these steps:
1) How do I know if a job in health care is for me?
2) Assessment
3) Academic courses to take to prepare for a health career
4) Health care career opportunities
5) Comparing Career Choices - First Take
6) Researching Education and Training Options
7) Determining Work/Family/School Priorities
8) Comparing Career Choices - Second Take
9) How to Get Hands on Experience in Health Care Occupations
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