Questions to ask yourself when evaluating your career plan

• Think about where you are now; in comparison to where you would like to be. Is there scope in the near future to reach your goal?
• Where were you in your career 6 months, to a year ago? Does your growth since that period align with your career plan?
• What aspects of your job do you enjoy / is there any part of your role you dread?
• What are your hobbies and interests? Do you have time to pursue them outside of your working day?

Career goals

• Have you achieved any of your past career goals? If not, why is this?
• Do your goals align with your current employer?

Additional Skills

• What additional skills would you require to be closer to reaching your career plan? Could you work on these skills whilst in your current role?
• Would it be worth taking a course to learn a new software or skill?

Think carefully about what’s currently working for you, and what’s not. 

Things to consider

• Are you being held back from furthering your knowledge to help reach your goals?
• Is there any way to work your way up within the company to reach your goals?
• Is what you’re currently doing aligned with your goals?

Setting your direction

• By asking yourself the above questions, you will have some idea about what your next steps should be.
• Based on your key interests, attributes and experience you should be able to start looking at what’s decisions are best for you.
• By being able to set your direction, you should be able to steer your career into an industry better suited to what you’re looking for.
• Commit a time-frame, when you have figured out what direction you would like to go and how you intend to get there

If you’re currently re-evaluating your career and would like some advice on this, please contact us here.