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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