Career Development Plan Power Point

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SWOT Responses

Strengths

1. What personal attributes do you view as your strengths?

2. What activities make you feel happy or energized?

3. What comes naturally for you?

4. What expert tools and resources do you have readily available that you can leverage?

5. What personal strengths will help you achieve your career goals?

6. Professionally, what are the biggest lessons you have learned so far?

7. Besides your experience, what differentiates you from other leaders/professionals?

Weaknesses

1. What is the main area you need to improve on that will make the biggest impact for achieving your goals?

2. What was a professional “learning moment” for you?

3. What did you learn from your past, how did you grow and what will you do differently moving forward?

4. In the short term, what internal obstacles could prevent you from achieving your goals?

5. What internal obstacles could derail your progress?

6. What can you do to minimize each identified obstacle?

Instructions:

Please outline your SWOT responses here

SWOT Responses

Opportunities

1. What is impossible to do today, however, if you did it would be a game changer for your career?

2. What opportunities exist in the current and future job market that the external environment is creating?

3. What (external) expert tools and resources do you have readily available that you can tap into?

4. What are the top 3 or 5 priorities in your life?

5. What do you like most about your current role?

6. Where do you want to be?

7. What do you need more of in your next position?

8. When have you been most inspired or most motivated? Why?

9. How do you define career success for the next year? Over the long term?

10. What is your long-term career goal?

Threats

1. What (external) expert tools and resources do you have readily available that you can tap into?

 

 

2. Your external threats: (economic, market changes, health, legal, environmental, technology, etc.)

 

3. What external obstacles could prevent you from achieving your objective? What can you do to minimize the obstacles?

 

  

4. What do you need less of at your next position

Instructions:

Please outline your SWOT responses here

How would you introduce yourself?

Elevator Speech

Be sure to include:

Your name

Your current position and industry

Adjectives that describe you

A statement of your interest in the company or industry the person (audience) represents

Example:

Hi, my name is _________. I will be graduating/I just graduated from _________ with a (diploma/degree) in ___________. I’m looking to ____________.

Instructions:

Please write out your elevator speech using these pointers

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The number of people in your network

Personal: Parents, Extended Family, friends, acquaintances, service providers, religious ties, neighbors, your accountant, lawyer, doctor, dry cleaner, hairdresser, nail technician, sports, gym

Professional: Colleagues, employees in other organizations, customers, internship supervisors, colleagues at work (present & past), trade shows, industry associations, career events

Educational: Professors, alumni, other students, department advisors, career advisors

Community: Sorority/Fraternity, interest groups, hobbies, volunteer groups, charities, government representatives, campus club, service groups, professional organizations,

Opportunistic: People you meet in your day-to-day life

Strategic: Representatives at organizations you want to work for.

Instructions:

Please share the number of people in your network and the source(s).