Creating your career blueprint
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This document provides guidance on creating a career blueprint. It recommends understanding your interests and strengths through self-reflection and job shadowing. Goals should be personal, practical, possible, and pleasurable. Barriers like unrealistic standards can prevent goal achievement. A SWOT analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The blueprint includes defining career objectives, setting specific and time-bound major goals, conducting a skills audit, creating an action plan, and finding mentors. Maintaining a flexible career development plan that is updated yearly can help you progress toward your goals.
Creating your career blueprint
- 1. Creating Your Career Blueprint Kathleen Kessler Carole Stacy MSN, MA, RN
- 2. Ready..Aim..Shoot If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.
- 3. Before you create your plan…. • Understand yourself • What do you really like to do? • What do you do really well? • What do you dislike doing? • Talk to nurses in a variety of roles. • Job shadow • Get out of your comfort level, be a little adventuresome (or may a lot).
- 4. Goals Need to be.. • Personal (Your own) • Practical (Worth the time and effort) • Possible (You need to think you can do it) • Pleasurable (Enjoy the process)
- 5. Barriers to Achieving Our Goals • Too many at one time • Unrealistic standards • Negative self talk and surroundings • Measuring by failures
- 6. Goal Categories • Family • Job • Spiritual • Intellectual • Social • Physical • Financial
- 7. CPR • Categorize your goals • Prioritize your goals • Recognize your priorities
- 8. Personal SWOT Analysis • Strengths: What sets you apart from others? • Weaknesses: things you aren’t good at, or areas where you can improve. • Opportunities: Identify elements you can build on or take advantage of to improve your chance of success. • Threats: Things that can derail your success
- 9. Define your Career Objectives • What do you want to accomplish? • Why is this important to you? • Write a Career Mission Statement “ have my DNP by the time I am 40 with my own family practice” Ideally this should be a 5 to 10 year perspective
- 10. Set Major Career Goals • Specific- make sure your goal pertains to one particular outcome • Measurable- definable end point • Achievable- you must be reasonably able to accomplish • Relevant- must relate to what you are trying to accomplish • Time bound- otherwise you may not ever get it done.
- 11. Creating your blueprint • Conduct a skills audit, what you have, what you need, where you can get what you need. • Create an action plan for each career goal • How will you accomplish this? • What support do you need? • Where can you get this support? • Find and use mentors!
- 12. Create a Career Development Plan • Do your homework • Be realistic in setting your goals • Make a plan and update it yearly • Don’t over promise yourself • Accept that you may need to go at a slower pace, one missed goal doesn’t equal failure.