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Career Planning

What are the steps you might take in thinking about your career? Careful thought and organisation can help you decide between career options. Determining the career option that suits you best can help guide you during your university studies and into your working life.

Following is a typical framework to help you plan your career:

  1. Knowing Your Career Preferences
    Understanding yourself – self assess your skills, interests, abilities, values and personality.
    Steps to knowing your career preferences.

  2. Exploring Options
    Explore your options (study, career, volunteer work, vacation work, part time and casual work, industry training and internships).
    How to start exploring your options.

  3. Making A Decision
    Successful career decision making

  4. Taking Action
    Including setting goals, developing career management skills (such as self-reliance skills, and maintaining career health), and how to evaluate your progress. Tips on how to start taking action with your career.

  5. Back to Top

Authorised by: Manager, Careers and Employment. Last Reviewed: 20/10/2003
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