Use Career Planning to Create Your Team's Template to Success

Career Planning is a continuous process of career management involving four main steps:

1. Self analysis: Finding out where you are currently in your career versus where you would like to be in the future. Also, taking an inventory of the skills you have to offer, as well as your values and interests.
2. Research: Exploring occupations and areas that interest you. Once you have a list of your interests, compare your current skills with those required for the jobs that interest you and decide how they match up.
3. Decision making: Narrow down the list of possible career options by determining what best suits you at this point in time.
4. Taking action: Define your next steps figure out where to get the support, training or other skills needed to achieve your current career goals.

Ongoing analysis in Career Planning is important for long term satisfaction and success, as changes in economic and social situations occur continuously. Specific tools used in Career Planning include self-analysis, interviews, online research, and skills testing. Get started with our Career Planning template.

How to use it:

1. List your top three career goals, current skills and knowledge, and the skills and knowledge you believe will be needed to achieve your future goals.
2. Based on the difference between your existing and required future skills and knowledge, identify specific learning and development goals you will focus on in one year and in five years. ​
3. Create an action plan for beginning the process of achieving your learning and development goals.

Praxie’s online Career Planning collaboration tools allow any team or organization to instantly begin working with our web templates and input forms. Our digital platform goes far beyond other software tools by including progress dashboards, data integration from existing documents or other SaaS software, elegant intuitive designs, and full access on any desktop or mobile device.