Career Planning
[WLO: 3] [CLO: 4]
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, you must download and use the Career Planning Guide 
downloadtemplate to complete this assignment. Do not write a separate paper. This document serves as a guide as well as the template that you will submit for this assignment.
Career planning is an important step in your education as it allows you to consider your current skills and knowledge level. You then use that information to determine where you want to be in 10 years and what steps you must take to reach your goals. This assignment will help you explore your current strengths and weaknesses. It also allows you to consider the areas where there are opportunities and threats—in this case, potential roadblocks, in reaching your professional goals.
You will note in the document that the order of planning is a reflection on your current skills and knowledge first, then the 10-year goals, and then the 5-year goals. The purpose for this order is for you to determine where you are right now and where you want to be in 10 years. The 5-year goals are what you need to identify as steps towards reaching the 10-year goals.
To complete the Career Planning assignment,
- Conduct a job market research by visiting one or more of the following online job boards.
- AHIMA Career Assist (Links to an external site.)
- Explore Health Careers (Links to an external site.)
- HealthJobsNationwide.com (Links to an external site.)
- Idealist (Links to an external site.)
- iHireHealthCareAdministration (Links to an external site.)
- iHireSocialServices (Links to an external site.)
- National Council of Nonprofits (Links to an external site.)
- National Organization of Human Services (Links to an external site.)
- SocialService.com (Links to an external site.)
- USAJOBS: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Links to an external site.)
- Analyze a job listing.
- Identify the level of the position.
- Describe what the job entails.
- Determine if you meet the listed job qualifications.
- Assess where you are in your career today.
- Assess where you want to be in your career in 10 years.
- Assess where you want to be in your career in 5 years. List the action items or experiences that will lead you to your ultimate career goal.
The Career Planning assignment
- Must be submitted using the Career Planning Guide template download. All the required information must be complete.
- Must include students’ name and due date.
- Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
- If sourced information is used, must include a separate references pages that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
