Career Planning Exercises

When choosing a school to attend, sometimes it is best to first decide what you want to do with your degree once you get it. What kind of career do you envision for yourself? From there, it will be a little bit easier to find the school the fits your needs. If you don.t know where to start when choosing a career either, we have a few questions and exercises you can go through to help you take a calm and collected look at your future and take help you decide where to start and how to match your career with the lifestyle you envision and which schools will help you get there.

A good exercise to begin is to clear your mind and ask yourself a series of questions. Here are some questions you can start with to start thinking about career paths for you.

* What kind of lifestyle do you want (Ie. Family, travel, relaxed, fastpaced?) Can your current career path lead you to that lifestyle? * What are the things that you like and don.t like to do? Does your career involve more of what you like or more of what you don.t like? * Find out what you are passionate about. Does your career involve things that make you passionate? * What are your strengths? Does your career capitalize on your strengths or expose your weaknesses? * Determine how you would define success. Is it security, wealth, power, comfort? Find out what is important to you and see if your career can provide that. * Where are you at right now with your career? Before you can plan out your future, you need to have a clear idea of where you have to start.