Title: Assignment 9. Career plan
Course: Study and career planning / Vierko > Section: Further studies and career planning

Make a career plan

Do this task after the initial phase of your studies. Update your career plan with your coordinating teacher throughout your studies.

The aim of your career plan

As the name suggests, career planning is a planned activity related to your professional career. In this task you examine yourself, different possibilities and options, job opportunities and goals.

The goal of career planning is that you will get a job that you really like and are able to advance in your career. You are most likely to succeed in this when you know your own wishes and goals. When you know what kind of a workplace you want to work in, you are already one step closer to making your wishes come true!

Q: What are the three most important things that you hope for in your future workplace?
Q: Give names of three employers or companies that interest you.
Q: Give three interesting job titles or job descriptions in your own field and job. What kind of skills and competences are needed in them? Where could you get them?
Q: Find out what the working life situation is like in your own field.  Find out at least the following things:

- What are people talking about in your field right now? What changes or inventions are there in your field`?
- What challenges are there in your field at the moment or in the future?
- What kind of interesting career options are there in your field?
- What kind of competence and skills are needed in your field right now, what about in the future?
- What are the most important networks in your field?
- What is the trade union in your field?
Q: What are the three most important skills in which you want to develop professionally in the next 3-5 years?

Why are these skills important to you?

Also write how you can acquire these skills and make a timeline for implementation.
Q: Write down your three most important career goals during the next 3-5 years.

Think about why these goals are important to you? What does it take to reach these goals?

Make a list of concrete things you can do to reach your goals and a timeline for implementation.