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What is the career development process?

1. Discovering your path

  • As we grow up as a student, we start thinking of our career.
  • Our aspirations change at several stages of life. For example, our childhood’s aim gradually changes as we grew up.
  • But it is very important to come to a conclusion as early as possible.
  • The advantage of discovering your path as early as possible is you will get more time to prepare in your field.
  • Here you need to understand your personality, interest, skills and values.
  • Conduct SWOT analysis in order to know your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
  • You can take help from your family member, faculties, colleagues and friends.
  • Try to fill the skills checklist to have a better self-assessment.

2. Career exploration

  • After deciding your career aim you need to explore yourself in that area.
  • You should do research work and increase your knowledge in an interested area.
  • You need to develop the skills required in that area.
  • Start reading an autobiography of leading people in your field.
  • Start visiting workshops, industries and events relevant to you.
  • While exploring you will get some data relevant to your career which will help you to guide in specific direction.

3. Selecting the best alternative

  • After you have discovered your path and gain knowledge in that area, its time to take a major decision in your career.
  • In this stage, you need to decide how will you execute your exploration experience.
  • This stage is a challenging one because you need to eliminate all the other alternatives after selecting the major one.
  • Click here to know the steps in thedecision-making process.

4. Take action

  • After selecting the major area of your interest, set a clear goal and objective.
  • Make sure that your goal is attainable and realistic.
  • Make plans for the accomplishment of the goal and set proper deadlines.
  • You should be consistent in executing your action plan.

5. Keep tracking yourself

  • You should keep track of every activity performed. This will help you in forming a database relevant to your career.
  • Evaluate your decision at every stage to make your goal visible.
  • Take feedback which will be helpful in the future.
  • Try to note your task in a notepad instead of using a mobile phone. This will help you to give more value to your task.

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Premratan Kushwaha
Mechanical Engineer turned career enthusiast. After facing issues in finding the right job for myself and then realising that despite my degree I don't completely understand the significance of various profiles in the industry, I decided to make career out of helping others in finding the right career path.

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