| Career Planning
The resources in this section will help you take responsibility for managing your own career.
A Three-Step Career Planning Process
- In the Career Planning Is Lifelong section, you will learn why you need to plan your career.
- In the Career Management section, you will learn that the only job security is the security you create for yourself.
- In the Career Assessment section, you will get help in getting to know your interests, abilities, values, personality type, and management style, and find out what skills most employers want.
If you are wondering which jobs are on the rise or the decline, go to the Labor Market Trends section.
For a description of major career development theories, visit the Career Development Theory section.
After you have done all of the above, go to the Career Goals section.
Career Planning Resources
As our economy becomes more specialized, so do careers and job occupations. Technology and diversity challenge how we do business in the workplace, requiring the employer, employee, and job seeker to continuously re-evaluate their career decisions. It is important to develop a comprehensive career plan, to update one's job skills, and to understand what skills fit in today's changing labor market.
The career development process begins with learning about the "world of work" and preparing oneself for the social and mental demands. One excellent resource to begin career development is the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which provides job market outlook information for specific occupations and careers.
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| Career Planning References |
| Careering and Re-Careering |
Ronald L. Krannich
Impact Publications, 1991 |
| Delaware Career Compass: Finding Your Future |
Delaware Department of Labor
College Survival Inc., 1990 |
| "The Emerging Organization" |
Bruce Pittenger and John Radsep
Workforce Magazine, Spring 1992 |
| The Future at Work: An Assessment of Changing Workplace Trends |
Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies (ICESA) |
| Improved Career Decision Making in a Changing World, 2nd edition |
Judith M Ettinger
Garrett Park Press, 1996 |
| Not Just Another Job |
Tom Jackson
Random House of Canada Ltd., 1992 |
| Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment |
Karen Okulicz
K-Slaw Inc., 1995 |
| VISIONS PLUS Career Assessment Directory |
Maryland Occupational Information Coordinating Council, 1994 |
| What Color Is Your Parachute? |
Richard Nelson Bolles
Ten Speed Press, 1992 |
| What Next? The Road to a New Job |
New York State Department of Labor, 1992 |
| What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for America 2000 |
Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills,
US Department of Labor, June 1991 | |
