Make Your Decision - alis
The third step in planning your career is to make your decision and evaluate your career options. Follow these suggestions to help identify the best option for you.
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The third step in planning your career is to make your decision and evaluate your career options. Follow these suggestions to help identify the best option for you.
Go to another section Know Yourself, Explore Options, Make Your Decision or Take Action.
Compare Your Occupational Options
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You can compare as many as 3 different occupations to find out which ones are better choices for you.
If you're ready to compare and focus your career options, go to Compare Options.
If you're not ready, try the following suggestions:
- Think of comparing your options as research - try it and see what happens.
- Get to know your interests and strengths.
- Explore some career options.
- Revisit your vision of your future.
- Reflect on your career explorations so far.
- Talk to a Career Advisor
Strategies
Find Out Employer's Requirements
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As part of your career plan, you'll need to find out the requirements employers have for the options you choose.
Your Resources for Handling Challenges
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No matter how much effort you put into getting ready to pursue your preferred option, you will probably encounter a challenge or two. It makes sense to recognize potential challenges and plan to overcome them.
Learning Requirements
Find out if you need more formal or informal education.
Working Requirements
Focus on the working requirements for the occupation you are interested.
Additional Resources to Help You Make Your Decision
Reflect on Your Career Plan
At any point in the career planning process, it's normal to feel overwhelmed. You're gathering information, identifying and comparing options, thinking about next steps. When you're engaged in this process, you're balancing many large and small concerns that could have a profound effect on your future.
What if I make a wrong decision?
Career planning is more than making one big decision about what you'll do for the rest of your life. Career planning is about continually making choices and exploring opportunities.
When you are planning your career, every decision you make, big or small, is a career decision. In this view, everything in your work-related life affects your life outside of work and vice versa. Your decision to compare your career options isn't the Big One - it's simply the next one.
It's time to compare your options. You don't have to make any commitment. You can always move toward or step back from any of the options, at any point. You can also go after several options at the same time.
