Personal Career Planning

Personal career planning is the process of assessing your interests, skills, values and strengths, and creating a roadmap for your professional development and growth.

It involves setting goals, identifying opportunities, and making strategic decisions to achieve your desired career outcomes. In order to effectively plan your careers you will need to learn how to be honest with yourself, introspective of your work, and open to challenges that will take you out of your comfort zone. A lot of content on this blog is dedicated to personal career planning.

Here are some choice posts on this topic.

Brag Documents and Work Logs: Be Your Own Best Advocate
The best advocate for your next performance review, pay raise discussion, or promotion is yourself. Not even the best manager in the world will always have full insight into all of the things you’ve done and the full extent of the impact you created.