SPT 401 Bachelor in Elementary Education

1. Career
Planning

2. What is career
planning?
Planning a career can be defined as choosing life’s
important paths. It is a lifelong process, which includes choosing
an occupation, getting a job, growing in our job, possibly changing
careers and eventually retiring.
Career planning encompasses establishing career objectives
and determining appropriate educational and developmental
programs to enhance and enrich the knowledge, skills and
attitudes required to achieve short or long-term career objectives.

3. The career planning process is comprised of four steps:
1. self
Gather information about yourself (self-assessment)
Interests, values, roles, skills/aptitudes, preferred environments,
developmental needs, your realities.
2. options
Explore the occupations in which you are interested
Get more specific information after you narrow down your options
3. match
During this phase of the process, you will:
Identify possible occupations
Choose both a short term and long term option
4. action
Your will develop the steps you need to take in order to reach your goal, for
example: Investigating sources of additional training and education, if needed.
Developing a job search strategy Writing your resumes
Preparing for job interviews

4. Significance of Career
Planning
Career planning is not just making plans to obtain
your “perfect” job or career, but to help you make the many
adjustments there will be along the way as you learn about
you and the world of teaching.

5. Remember to set you goals the SMART way:
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time-Bound
• (well-defined and
detailed)
• (can evaluate
progress)
• (within reach)
• (within a time
frame)
• (practical)

6. Do not
abandon a
career goal!

7. Why do I want to achieve this
goal? “ Why is this important to
me?”