Quintessential Careers Content Index: Career Planning

Quintessential Careers Content Index:
Career Planning

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How and Why to Conduct a Mid-Year Career Review
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2012, July 3
Summary: Explains why mid-year is great time to evaluate how the first half of the year has gone for your career -- and what you hope to accomplish in second half. Shows how and why to conduct career review.

Career Planning for Millennials, Gen Y, Twenty-Somethings
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, Nov. 16
Summary: Career planning is about reviewing your current career and envisioning your career future. In terms of your future career, career planning should look both at the short-term (the next 1-2 years) and long-term (5+ years).

How to Conduct a Career-Planning Weekend Retreat
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, Nov. 16
Summary: This article suggests several variations on a career-planning weekend retreat and tells what such a weekend should include.

Creating a Career Vision for Your Life Envisioning Your Ideal Career
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, Jan. 12
Summary: A career vision is a statement about what you want to achieve in your career -- the major accomplishments you hope to attain, the level or position you hope to rise to, and the lasting impacts you hope to make. This article explains.

Career and Job Search Planning Guide From A to Z
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2008, Dec. 15
Summary: This article suggests some of the most important career and job-search concepts, ideas, and strategies, from A to Z.

Successfully Implement Your Career Plan
By: Deborah Brown-Volkman
Published: 2008, March 17
Summary: It takes work to put together a career plan. You are combining courage, vision, and the specifics of what needs to happen when. This article tells you how to do it.

Self Assessment for New Grads and Entry level Job Seekers Is First Step to Career Plan
By: Teena Rose
Published: 2004, Feb. 16
Summary: Like any serious step you'll take in life, you must first determine the number of baby steps needed to get from one spot to the next. In other words, where are you headed and how will you get there? This article tells how to plot out the steps.

Ten Tips for Successful Career Planning
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2003, Aug. 4
Summary: 10 tips to help you achieve successful career planning.

The Six Stages of Modern Career Development
By: Michelle L. Casto
Published: 2003, Aug. 4
Summary: Learning the characteristics of each stage described in this article will empower you to navigate through each stage easily and with more confidence.

Your Career Planning and Job Search Calendar
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2003, Jan. 6
Summary: Need to launch, change, or fix your career? It's a daunting task. As we all know, however, experts say that if you break a task down into digestible bites, it doesn't seem quite so overwhelming. That's the idea behind our Career Planning and Job-Search Calendar -- to break down the task of starting or repairing your career into monthly components.

Developing a Strategic Vision for Your Career Plan
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2002, Sept. 2
Summary: This article provides you with some basic guidelines for both short-term and long-term career planning.

Sample Career Vision Statements for Career Planning
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: The purpose of a career vision statement is to give you a clear and inspiring direction for the future. This article offers free examples of different job-seekers' career vision statements.

Life Planning: Go Big or Go Home!
By: Rhoberta Shaler, Ph.D.
Published: 2002, April 1
Summary: Each person has the opportunity to define "big" for himself or herself. If we are to live our dreams and visions about how we want our lives to be, how we want to be remembered, what our contribution to our daily world could be, it IS true. Go big or go home! This article elaborates.

Using a SWOT Analysis in Your Career Planning
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. and Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2000, Oct. 9
Summary: A key tool in the strategic planning process can also be applied to career planning. This tool is a marketing analysis using the SWOT technique. A SWOT analysis focuses on the internal and external environments, examining strengths and weaknesses in the internal environment and opportunities and threats in the external environment. This article explains and gives an example.

Sample SWOT Analysis For Career Planning
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: This sample SWOT analysis for job-seekers is designed to help you with your career SWOT analysis.

Using a Personal Mission Statement to Chart Your Career Course
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2000, Aug. 14
Summary: This article suggests several techniques for developing a personal mission statement.

Knowing Yourself and Knowing How to Create Your Own Good Luck Are Keys to Career Planning
By: David P. Helfand, Ph.D.
Published: 2000, May 1
Summary: The best way for any job-seekers today to best prepare themselves for whatever follows is to understand the career planning process and complete all the steps thoroughly. This article explains.

Five Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: To help you get started on your personal mission statement, here is a five-step mission-building process.

Sample Job Seeker Personal Mission Statements
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: A personal mission statement helps job-seekers identify their core values and beliefs. This article offers free examples of different job-seekers' personal mission statements.

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