How to Start Making Career Plan ? Where to Start

First we need to understand who we are and what we want ? For that we need to understand work and life. Following questions will lead us to in that direction and we need to ask these questions ourselves

Who am I?

Here we just consider interests, skills, values and qualities. We should also ask ourselves :

What am I good at?
What do I like to do in my spare time?
What have I achieved already?
What things am I passionate about?
What are my Skill interests?

More you know about your Skill interest , more you will happy with such work. But most Fresher do not go deeply in their own skill interest at early and consider it as final one which can make your decision wrong. So better go deep down and work hard on your skill interest and find most details of it. Don’t just follow your friends interest or Grand-father’s interest or someone who recently got good pay. Find about yourself !

What are my values?

Values are much more important in any job and most fresher candidates just focus on domain knowledge , while after joining they can’t adjust with personal and organization values . Results into early give up.

Here , following questions can help to find your personal values and working conditions .

Hours : Job security or risk : Back-Office or Field-Work : Working with Team : Work Variety :
Personal and Cultural values :

Where am I?

Before making career decision we need to understand where we are ? and where to go . We need to understand our personal situations. Following factors should be considered.

Family expectations – Career readiness – Challenges – Finance or Family situation

Where do I want to be?

Few related questions might help you to find answer. Ask yourself

Do you want a job that earns lot of money?
Do you want a job that will give free time for other professional activities?
Do you like giving advice or having people come to you for help?