Step 4 - Implementing Your Decisions

If you have decided on your job preference, you are then ready to prepare and implement an action plan to convert your choice into reality.

Action Needed

Attaining a long term goal becomes more manageable, if you recognise that a series of short term goals or steps can move you towards your long term. You should chart each of these short term goals; identify the methods or routes towards achieving each, and in what timeframe. Use Action Plan PDF form to assist.

The list could include researching suitable graduate study options, applying for courses, sourcing funding; also such tasks as preparing a CV and covering letter, completing application forms, preparing for interviews and keeping records, understanding job search methods, obtaining work experience. Use the information at Destinations® on graduate study, skills employers seek, applications/interviews, finding a job.

Reviewing your plan

Check your progress against your allocated time frame and consider how you are performing. As you move towards your goal, new insights may arise that alter your ideas. You may need to revise part of your plan, add new goals, or rewrite the plan to reflect changes.

Remember too that once understood, you can apply the career planning process throughout your life, as your work ideas expand or alter and you move e.g. upwards, sideways, into self-employment.