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Career Exploration
Developing Career Goals
Developing Career Goals
Your career goals are likely to change many times throughout your life. Developing an initial focus will help you narrow your options and target appropriate
employers or educational paths. Just remember that you may change your mind as you learn more about yourself, jobs, and employers.
The following set of pages organizes the key aspects of your career decision-making
in these areas so that you can go about it in a manageable
and sequential way. Take some time to browse through all of them, and you'll have
a good sense of what the whole process will involve.
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Developing career goals requires two basic types of information: knowledge about yourself and information about career options which are compatible with your interests, values, and skills. |
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Further explore your work interests or preferences by remembering what courses you've enjoyed and careers you've considered. |
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Determine which of your values, or personal attitudes which influence your decisions and actions, are important to you in terms of job satisfaction. |
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Evaluate what skills you currently possess or want to develop. Skills come from a variety of work, academic, and life experiences. |
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Familiarizing yourself with various career fields and what jobs actually entail is critical to developing career goals. |
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Summarize the results of your self-assessment in a prioritized list or statement to serve as a reference as you begin to identify and research employers. |
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