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USING YOUR ACTION PLAN

TO ACHIEVE YOUR CAREER

GOALS

Ideally, your action plan should be a useful, practical tool for you. It can be
a framework within which to evaluate new opportunities. Your career action
plan can be a roadmap of tasks and activities that will move you closer
to your goals on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. And especially helpful,
it can always remind you what to do next when you’ve been “missing in
action” from pursuing your career path for a while due to circumstances
beyond your control.
Tailored to and reflective of your expertise, interests, and passions, your
career action plan should not be seen as an inflexible “to-do list” but rather
as a pathway. You’ll still want to be opportunistic – you don’t want to pass
on a terrific job or project offer simply because you didn’t have it in your
plans. Instead, consider your career action plan to be a blueprint that can
be tweaked to fit both your life’s circumstances and emerging professional
interests. For those stuck in unrewarding jobs, a career action plan can
be a way to help you focus on investing your energies and time in positive
future opportunities rather than wasting away being mired in the negative
energy of your current workplace.

A career action plan is where you not only document your dreams, but also
prove to yourself that they are achievable. Best of luck!

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