✨ Activity: Career Planning

Use Personal and External Insights to Guide Your Career

Refer to your findings in the Professional Assets module and External Influences module to further your career planning. If you haven’t completed them, consider doing so now—they provide valuable input for this worksheet.

Your values shape your choices, often subconsciously. Review the values you identified in the Uncovering Personal Assets Worksheet and list them in the Values section of the Career Planning Worksheet. Highlight those that feel most core to who you are.

Do the same for:

• Skills you enjoy or want to develop
• Interests (from the Professional Assets Inventory)
  
• Personal factors

Record these in the spaces provided or in a personal journal.

Next, review your External Influences Worksheet. Add relevant insights—such as a growing interest in the healthcare field—to the worksheet. These are clues to explore further.

Also, reflect on your reasons for working. What role does work play in your life? Possible motivators include:

• Financial stability
• Status or ambition
• Identity, purpose, or meaning
• Skills challenge
• Colleagues or work community
• A desire to make a difference, support a cause, or build a legacy

Use these reflections to help clarify your direction.

If you want to debrief all of your findings and someone to bounce ideas with or you are struggling to make sense of your summary, please book an appointment with a Career Advisor in Career Services on Libcal.