n Career Direction
n Change & Transition
n Decision Making & Goal Setting
n About Career Planning
n Strategies for a Balanced Life
n Self Growth: Goal Setting
n Changing Course
n YouTube: Daniel Pink: A Whole New Mind
n YouTube: Defining Success

"To get somewhere, you must know where you're going.  Sounds logical, doesn't it?  Yet, for countless unhappy, unsatisfied people, getting through the day is their only ambition.  They float along in their daily lives like driftwood in the ocean.  They take whatever job falls their way and exert the least amount of energy possible to get the job done."

-WAITLEY & WITT

"As we pass through the various stages of life and as situational changes occur, we set goals, choose from options and alternatives, and make decisions. For many the process of change is difficult and threatening, particularly for those who haphazardly chart their course only to find frustration and dissatisfaction. Through career life planning, we learn to center our attention on carefully laid plans and on those variables over which we have some control. Our lives can be charted more effectively through the maze of changes that we experience, both individually and situationally, by planning programs that place these variables in perspective."

-VERNON ZUNKER
 

n Career Action Plan
n Career Planning Checklists
n Career Management Checklist
n Univ Ala Bham: Career Action Plan
n Job Web: Career Action Plan
n About Career Planning: Career Action Plan
n Career Action Plan (PDF)
n MT World: Career Action Plan
n Careers4Graduates: Career Action Plan
n California State Univ: Career Action Plan
n What's Your College Major: Career Action Plan
n University of Ala: Career Action Plan
n Quint Careers: Career Action Plan
n Career Success Checklist
n Vocational Info Center: Career Development Worksheets & Checklists

To be successful, it is imperative you have a strong sense of focus and a solid feeling of confidence that come from a well established career goal. Your career goal provides you a sense of direction, a map, a plan. To be successful in your career pursuits, it might be necessary to develop a "career action plan."

"Begin with the end in mind.  Start with a clear understanding of your destination. Know where you are going so that you better understand where you are now, and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction."

-STEPHEN COVEY

"First, you have to have a goal.  For, if you don't know where you are going, then any road will take you there -- and it won't really matter what you do with your life.  In fact, if you don't clearly know where you are going in your life, you probably won't recognize it when you get there."

-WAITLEY & WITT

 

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n Self Knowledge
n Career Assessment
n Google: Career Tests
n Queendom: Land of Tests
n Personality Summary

"An individual's work cannot be considered in isolation; rather, work is conceptualized as a major commitment in life planning that must be integrated into an individual's style of life. Because career life planning can affect individual lifestyle tremendously, it should be considered as an ongoing process that must allow for change of individual needs and situational circumstances. "

-VERNON ZUNKER

"There can be little joy in aimless activity.  It is debilitating.  Negative attitudes and poor self-esteem fester in the frustration of purposeless labor.  Aimless labor is like traveling in a rudderless ship.  You are powerless to propel your vessel toward your port of call.  On the other hand, virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight."

-WAITLEY & WITT

"One of the primary purposes of career life planning is to develop skills through which individuals learn to control their futures. We learn how to develop options and alternatives and effectively decide which to follow. We learn to identify our personal needs and the needs of our closest associates and how to integrate those needs into our life plans. We learn to make plans that we can change and revise as we ourselves change or as circumstances necessitate change. Thus, our planning must be flexible and include realistic options from which effective decisions can be made to promote a fuller and more satisfying life."

-VERNON ZUNKER

"Most people resist the idea of goal-setting.  It's easier just to assume everything will work out in the end.  Hang loose.  Whatever will be will be.  So, most people never set goals.  They fill their calendars with excursions and diversions. Rather than concentrate on activities and projects that can help them reach their goal, they just hope for the best and go with the flow."

-WAITLEY & WITT