Book Excerpt: Best Jobs. Brightest Careers.
Updating Your Career Strategy
The Benefits of Updating Your Career Strategy: A great career plan is an opportunity map. Your strategy must be flexible. With an updated plan, you will discover new roads for opportunities to succeed. Moreover, students and professionals who have developed and follow their own career plan have a greater likelihood of success, simply because they know which steps to take for success.
Great career plans not only define where you want to go. The plan helps you identify the tools, skills, and network you need to get there. ~ www.jaywren.com
Psychological Benefits of a Career Plan
A Career Plan Gives You a Sense of Purpose.
Have you ever found yourself in a meeting, working on a project, or in any situation where the question came to mind, “What am I doing here?” or “Why am I doing this?”
Have you noticed that associated with those questions is an unpleasant feeling that you are wasting your time? You have no sense of purpose for your activities.
Going to work every day with a sense of purpose is a lot more fun than going to work every day and wondering why you are doing what you are doing.
Also, it seems logical that going to work every day with a sense of purpose increases your likelihood of being more successful.
- Your interest in your work will increase.
- You will be focused on your work.
- Spontaneously, you will be more willing to invest energy and time in your work.
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