Career Planning:
  

You probably live a life under pressure. You have to juggle priorities, and manage your time. Just as we manage our time on a week-to-week basis, career manage­ment is about lifelong time management. It means taking time out, in fact, from a pressurized routine to perform a detailed review of who you are and where you are going. A career review is something you should do regularly, setting short-, medium- and long-term goals.

If you manage your career, actively and consciously, you will make it work better for you. Those who plan their working lives are more successful and more satisfied. They have thought about the work they want to do, and are actively pursuing it. The process has also helped them to understand w kinds of activities outside work are more rewarding. Perhaps most important of all, they have learned the skill of negotiating and adjusting the jobs that they so that they play to their strengths.

Career management is about:

	Discovering the kind of work you find most stimulating and enjoyable, renegotiating your job so that you can do it ...;
	Discovering fields of work (including jobs you didn't know existed) where you can make a difference;
	Striking a balance between what you are looking for and what the world has to offer;
	Setting goals - these goals may be financial, learning goals, or personal goals, and setting out the steps on your journey;
	Achieving the right life/work balance - making room for learning, family, relationships;
	Making sure that work provides the things that motivate you most – status, recognition, independence, learning
	Planning for retirement or changes of lifestyle