Future Career Planning Interview Preparation Guide

The career planning process has four steps:
☛ Knowing yourself
☛ Finding out
☛ Making decisions
☛ Taking action

Begin by thinking about where you are now, where you want to be and how you are going to get there. Once you have thought about where you are at now and where you want to be, you can work on getting to know your skills, interests and values.

This step is about exploring the occupations and learning areas that interest you. Once you have some idea of your occupational preferences you can research the specific skills and qualifications required for those occupations.
☛ Explore occupations that interest you and ask yourself how do my skills and interests match up with these occupations?
☛ Where are the gaps?
☛ What options do I have to gain these skills or qualify for these occupations?
☛ What skills do I need?
☛ Where is the work?
At the end of this step you will have a list of preferred occupations and/or learning options.

Here you plan the steps you need to take to put your plan into action.
Use all you have learnt about your skills, interests and values together with the information you have gathered about the world of work to create your plan.
Begin by asking yourself:
☛ What actions/steps will help me achieve my work, training and career goals?
☛ Where can I get help?
☛ Who will support me?
At the end of this step you will have:
☛ A plan to help you explore your options further (eg work experience, work shadowing or more research).
☛ A plan which sets out the steps to help you achieve your next learning or work goal.
Decide which step is relevant for you right now and start from there.

The answer should be:
My career goal is to became expertise in field where am i working and constantly update myself with the latest technologies to move up in ladder and also to pursue a MBA degree.

Career planning is the continuous process of:
☛ Thinking about your interests, values, skills and preferences.
☛ Exploring the life, work and learning options available to you.
☛ Ensuring that your work fits with your personal circumstances.
☛ Continuously fine-tuning your work and learning plans to help you manage the changes in your life and the world of work.

Career planning is an ongoing process that can help you manage your learning and development.

Short term career planning is quite simple, like getting a higher post in a few years or months or learning a new skill so that you can become more productive for the company or even earning a certain amount per month by a particular time. These are the answers that you can provide when you are asked what your short term career aspirations are. In some cases, you can also speak about any dream company that you would like to work with as your short term career aspirations.

When it comes to long term career planning, you can go a bit ambiguous and even out of the material world. For example, you can say that your long term career aspirations are to create a path that other people in the profession and line of work may follow. You may even speak about what are your career ambitions, like obtaining the highest post in a company in a while etc.

For this question we would like you to think about the current trends in the market and how they may affect your career path. Think about what things you could do to increase your employment potential.