The importance of "Career" Planning
Every individual has his or her areas of strength and weakness. Mostly that is why we refer to people as individual because that person is unique. Formulating a career development plan, that too during the early phase of one’s career, has become a vital skill. To draw an analogy, you need to consider your career to be like a ship that has set sail on the ocean of life. Consider career planning to be the first step, it’s like placing a ship in water with its sails open. As the ship catches the wind in its sail and progresses forward, you will meet different people, read different books and have different learning experiences. All these factors will help shape your feelings, thoughts, values, beliefs and future plans.
Also remember that career planning is no doubt the first step, but as the captain of the ship you will need to ensure that your ship is always on course. During the progress of your career journey there could be setbacks, distractions and pit falls that will tend to throw your career off its course. These situations will test your perseverance, your determination and your grit. There is a possibility that the career plans you had created could fail or go haywire. Hence when you are in the process of charting your career plan be sure to have additional options ready and not depend on just one option. This way if you find that the main option or plan is not working as expected, then you can change tracks smoothly without having to start over all the way from the beginning.
