3. Given these prospects and your own occupational inclinations, outline a brief, 1-page career plan for yourself, including current occupational inclinations, career goals, and an action plan listing four or five development steps you will need to take in order to get from where you are now career-wise to where you want to be, based on your career goals. Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to provide you with experience in analyzing your career preferences.

Required Understanding: Students should be thoroughly familiar with the Employee s Role in Career Management section in this chapter, as well as using O*Net (which we discussed in Chapter 4).

How to Set Up the Exercise/Instructions:

Using O*Net and the Employee s Role in Career Management section in this chapter, analyze your career-related inclinations (you can take the self-directed search for about $10 at www.self-directed-search.com). Based on this analysis, answer the following questions (if you wish, you may do this analysis in teams of three or four students).