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Career planning is a lifelong process that can help you manage important life and work decisions. Find out how you can benefit from it.
Wondering what all this talk about planning for your future is about? Find out why it might be a good idea to start thinking about your career now.
Career planning helps you make decisions throughout your career, whether you are just starting or planning retirement. Follow these 4 steps to plan your career.
Knowing what to do after high school starts with knowing yourself. Take the first steps by understanding your values, interests, and abilities.
The first step in planning your career is to know what you value, your interests and the things you’re good at. It's time to get to know yourself. Take one or more of the quizzes to help plan your career path.
When planning your career, it's important to explore the occupations you’re interested in and maybe discover some new ones.
The second step in planning your career is to explore the occupations you’re interested in and maybe discover some new ones. Find the tools you'll need.
Part of career planning is to compare and evaluate your career options. Follow these suggestions to help identify the best option for you.
The third step in planning your career is to get ready and evaluate your career options. Follow these suggestions to help identify the best option for you.
By now, you’ve decided on your next career move. You also know there will be challenges. It's time to make sure your career move will be a success.
Get where you want to go. It can be exciting to identify a career direction and create a plan to pursue it! At the same time, where you are right now can seem like a long way from where you want to be. These 5 steps will help you take action and shorten the distance between you and your vision of the future.
Setting goals based on your dreams can help you face challenges and make changes in your life and career. Learn how to set SMART goals.
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My Career Plan
My Career Plan is a personal record of all career planning activities from Know Yourself, Explore Options, Get Ready, and Take Action sections of the site. At any time you can view or print this career plan and see your progress.
NOTE: Information that you have completed and saved to your account on legacy CAREERinsite will be available here. However, we encourage you to consider re-doing the exercises to ensure accurate rankings of occupational matches, and more complete results.
My Quizzes & Activities
This section gives you a high level view of your progress as it relates to the available quizzes and activities. Review your results or jump back in and finish up a quiz in progress.
Interactive Forms
Know Yourself
My Interest Codes
Your work-related interests are an part important of being satisfied with your career. Rank the activities in this exercise to see what your interests are.
Interests Matching Occupations
Based on your results, you'll be linked to occupations related to your top interests.
My Abilities
Abilities are the things that naturally come easy for you. Complete this exercise to rate your abilities.
Abilities Matching Occupations
Based on your results, you'll be linked to occupations related to your top abilities.
My Work Values
When your career and your values are in line you're more likely to feel fulfilled. In this exercise discover your work values.
My Significant Experiences
In this exercise you will reflect on your experiences to gain an understanding of your skills and traits and how you can apply them to the career planning process.
My Skills
This exercise will help you identify the skills you described as a part of your significant experiences.
My Traits
Complete this exercise to identify the traits that played a part in your significant experiences.
My Preferred Working Conditions
Complete this quiz to help you form a clear picture of the kind of workplace you could thrive in.
My Types of Intelligence
Complete this quiz to find out about your unique style of thinking and understanding.
My Vision
Use the following exercise to help you clarify what you really want out of life and work.
Explore Options
My Career Options Research
Save notes or ideas for career research here in your plan. Consider checking out websites, magazines, books, videos, television shows, newspapers, and blogs.
My Industry Sectors
Explore an industry sector to discover opportunities and occupations in the industry.
My Organizations
Learn about organizations and businesses to get ideas to focus on in your career plan.
My Occupations
Make notes of your favourite occupations. Exploring an occupation will help you learn more about day-to-day work, training and education, job trends, potential wages and so much more.
My Network
Create a list of organizations and companies you might approach to expand your network.
My Informational Interviews
My Hands-On Experience
Complete these exercises to identify careers to try before choosing a career option.
My Formal and Informal Learning
Save ideas and notes for learning opportunities. Both formal and informal learning provide skills and experience.
My Job Shadowing or Working
Saves notes and ideas for job shadowing. Trying jobs you’re interested in is one of the best ways to explore.
My Volunteering
Save notes and ideas for volunteering. Like paid work, volunteering allows you to find out more about occupations and industries.
Get Ready
My Chosen Occupations
Focus your career options.
Compare My Occupational Options
Compare and focus your career options.
My Learning Requirements
Research and identify any learning requirements you may need to meet.
My Working Requirements
Research and identify requirements such as on-the-job training, taking an entry level position, etc.
My Resources for Handling Challenges
Identify potential challenges and ways to overcome them so you feel prepared.
Take Action
My Chosen Occupations