do a career timeline marking significant career-related developmental periods, events, and influences impacting your career choices. A career timeline is like a personal timeline chart that marks both positive and negative career-related events impacting your life, which allows to assess patterns and themes relating to your job choices and career decisions, critically considering future career path, and begin to conceptualize career theories and their alignment with career development across the lifespan. Using creativity, for career timeline from the list below and describe significant events that occurred during that time frame.

Lastly, a brief paragraph and reflect on why the event was significant.

• College
• 5 years ago
• 3 years ago
• 1 year ago
• Today
• Future Goals

Include at least one career-related event or influence for each of the six (6) stages (including employment, volunteer positions, clubs or organizations, and influential relationships). For instance, in college, you may have wanted to be a teacher because of the relationship you had with your first-grade teacher. In high school, you may have been influenced by gender roles, cultural norms, or family traditions and desired to be an accountant or Nurse. Briefly name and describe at least one career counseling theory that aligns with each of your significant events.

• What did you learn about the world of work from society, culture, and family throughout your life? How did this influence your career path?
• What internal (i.e., ability, intellect, beliefs, and values) or external factors (i.e., lived experiences, people, and information) influenced your career choices?
• Now, assess your future career goals. What challenges have you experienced or are you currently experiencing that might influence your ability to reach your goals? What plan do you have to address these challenges?
• What themes (i.e., sought out mentors before making career decisions or lacked knowledge in a field before pursuing the career path) did you find in your peer's career history and how might these themes impact your current career path and future goals?
• How does culture impact one's career decisions? For instance, has gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation influenced your or your peer's career choices?
• What career theory, if any, was most significant in your career path?