Career Planning and Goal Setting

Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, face to face or virtual with an instructor online.

Course Length: 

2 Days

Target Audience: 

General

Learning Objectives:

• Enable the participants to set realistic and achievable career goals.
• Direct participants in setting up action plans to achieve their career objectives.
• Have participants assess their careers to date by identifying their preferences, skills,
  aptitudes, interests, abilities and traits.

Course Content:

• Self-assessment - fitting work skills to work preferences
• Patterns and trends in each participant’s education, training and employment history
• Aptitudes, interests and preferences
• Current and ideal balance among work, family, social, recreational and intellectual
  activities-quality of life
• Aspects of their training and employment that are sources of satisfaction and
  dissatisfaction
• Limits on their career progress arising from lack of training, skills and experience
• Characteristics of their ideal jobs (Roles)
• Review of current availability and trends for jobs by occupational groups
• Review trends in availability of work through counselling, placement and recruiting
  firms
• Review of institutions providing training, their course offerings, fees and entrance
  requirements
• Examine the merits and limitations of full time, part time and casual training
• Examine the process of registration for training
• Mentoring - how one finds and develops a mentoring relationship
• Distinguish among and understand the interdependence of long and short term career goals;
  financial and income security goals; training and development goals; and quality of
  life
• Prepare an action plan consistent with one’s needs and constraints
• Identify specific objectives and time frames; commit one’s self to implement the plan
• Manage implementation of the plan
• Review and evaluate results

Supplement Material

A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.

Benefits to the Participants

Throughout the activities, the learners will be able to examine their current situation and apply new practices to establish and set career goals.

Course Evaluation

 A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.