What is Career Planning? Getting Started with Purposeful Career Planning

Is it possible to plan your career? Does career planning really help? What is career planning anyway?

There are many thoughts on what effective career planning actually is and how to best go about it. For us career development folks, career planning revolves around a series of steps providing structure and purpose to help with a variety of career-related matters, including:

• Choosing a major
• Choosing a career
• Searching for a job
• Changing careers

Several upcoming posts will focus on the basics of purposeful career planning.

Next up: Purposeful Career Planning: Overview of the Five Basic Steps