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Discover, Plan, and Prepare for Your Career… All in One Place

To maximize the potential of any given outcome, it is commonly understood that writing a plan is a necessary action to take.  This is especially true for beginning a career.  With several phases and moving parts of the career planning process, adapting a method for determining which career you’d like to pursue, what you need to do to enter this career field, and how you’ll advance down the line makes your career goal all the more attainable.

The Career Smart: Career Planning Guide provides a series of insights, Personal Learning Experiences and Observations (PLEOs), and career workshop activities that prepare you to complete the career plan template at the end of this guide.  You will advance through the following six sections to identify your career and spring into career planning action:

• Section 1: Discovery of What You Want to Do in Life and How This is Relevant to Writing a Career Plan
• Section 2: The Psychology of How Companies Operate and How That Matters to Your Career Aspirations
• Section 3: Raising Your Career IQ – Personal Learning Experiences and Observations (PLEOs)
• Section 4: How to Strategically Manage Your Job So You Can Advance Beyond Your Co-Workers
• Section 5: Career Workshop – How to Be Totally Prepared for Key Aspects of Moving Your Career Forward
• Section 6: Writing Your Own Career Plan and Using This Information for the Life of Your Career

By the end of this guide, you will have the knowledge, skills, and plan you need to position yourself as the best possible candidate for your career field of choice.  Whether you already have an idea of what career you’d like to pursue or are just beginning the career planning process, the Career Smart: Career Planning Guide provides the structure for putting your career-related ideas all in one place and using this information for life.