This assignment now moves you away from internal processes and controllable factors to your external environment and issues you cannot control -- and how these forces can affect your future career.

Read: Key Environmental Forces

Read and react: Considering Graduate School? Answer These Five Questions Before You Decide.

Respond:: Why do you want to go to graduate school?

Read and react: Using a SWOT Analysis in Your Career Planning.

Develop: A SWOT analysis for yourself and your potential career path based on all your understanding of your career path and the environmental forces affecting it.