What Is A Career?: Components and Steps in Making A Health Career Plan
What Is A Career?: Components and Steps in Making A Health Career Plan
What Is A Career?: Components and Steps in Making A Health Career Plan
A career is an occupation or profession that requires 1. Self-Assessment - Discover your personal strengths through
self-assessments (values, interests, personality, testing, skills,
special training.
etc.
Health careers are designed to familiarize students 2. Career Exploration - You can explore different careers and
with the various careers in the medical profession and allied work environments through career fairs, online research,
health services. Students will learn skills necessary for their meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional
career path, which in this case is in healthcare. These include resources.
3. Decision Making - Before you decide on taking a career
working with others, communication skills, legal and ethical
that works for you, you can evaluate and narrow down
responsibilities, cultural considerations in healthcare industry,
your options through listing the pros and cons, comparing
problem solving, decision making, accepting personal your personal strengths and interests, and deciding which
responsibility, and self-management. career fulfills both current and future goals.
Health career Planning refers to an individual’s plan to 4. Plan of Action - Plan achievable goals and develop
strategies to reach your goals, organize your goals into
make a career choice, growing in the chosen career or
smaller steps, identify actions for each step, utilize helpful
making a career shift. Career planning involves the very
people and resources, review and adapt your plan
important step of self-assessment. regularly.
Self-assessment is necessary to understand one’s HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS
capabilities and drawbacks. The various career options
should be explored in detail to find a fit between one’s Career pathways are clusters occupations that are
grouped because of shared skills. All pathways include a variety of
abilities and the opportunities provided by a career option. It
occupations that require different levels of education, skills, and
involves continuous learning and improvement to build and
training. Selecting a career pathway provides you with an area of
grow in the chosen career path. focus, along with flexibility and a variety of ideas to pursue for
Why pursue a health career? personal development.