First, let's look at what we've done
before moving on to Developing a Career Search Strategy!
before moving on to Developing a Career Search Strategy!
When we looked at Career Planning Challenges and the tasks that lie ahead, I said that there were five challenges that you face. We're almost done with the first three:
- Organization Getting organized with a career binder: creating a space for your ideas and inspirations, developing a success timeline, setting up a daily to-do list and calendar and creating a place to keep your contact notes and all of the applications and resumes you will send.
- Awareness Becoming aware of who's hiring and how change happens and affects you, and learning how to research career options.
- Focus Gathering information about yourself through self-assessment.
The last task for the Focus Challenge is pull together all of the information you've obtained from the self-assessments:
Make sure you've done all of the Self-Assessment exercises before you move to the next step!
Now, let's put it all together!
To "put it all together," you are going to create a statement of purpose, using the information you gathered in the previous exercises. Here is the template for this task ...
Career Preference Outline and Summary: My Career Chart
Download the template as a Word Doc, or "open" it in you own Google Docs account.
Use the information you gathered during the self assessment to complete your summary statement.
This is your Statement of Purpose!
Download the template as a Word Doc, or "open" it in you own Google Docs account.
Use the information you gathered during the self assessment to complete your summary statement.
This is your Statement of Purpose!
Next:
Job Search Strategy
