Every job-seeker needs to take time to step away from the day-to-day grind of work and spend time reflecting on your career and developing some plans for your future. Whether you love your current job and employer or feel frustrated and confined by your job, career planning can help. Think of career planning as building a bridge from your current job or career to your next job or career; without the bridge, you may easily stumble or lose your way but with the bridge there is safety and direction.
Short-term career planning
A short-term career planning focuses on a timeframe ranging from the coming year to the next few years, depending on the job-seeker. The key characteristic of short-term career planning is developing realistic goals and objectives that you can accomplish in the near future.
As you begin your career planning, take time to free yourself from all career barriers. They are personal barriers such as lack of motivation, apathy, laziness, or procrastination, family pressure such as expectations to work in family business, following a certain career path, or avoidance of the careers that are below your status or stature and peer pressure. And while career planning and career decision-making are important aspects of your life, do not put so much pressure on yourself which paralyses you from making any real choice, decision or plan. Finally, career planning is an ever-changing and evolving process or journey so take it slowly and easily.
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