While your immediate career goals can change as can your long-term goals as you learn more about different aspects of a career, it helps to have a plan and determine the short and long-term goals to realize your end goal.

For instance, someone may think they want to become an emergency medical technician (EMT). But using their IDP, one of their short term goals was getting an internship. During their internship, they learn that they are not as clear thinking as needed in an emergency situation in such a job as an EMT. Instead, they find themselves more drawn to becoming an occupational therapist since they like being able to develop a plan for each individual patient to enable better mobility and watching their plan enacted to make a patient more capable to navigate their daily lives.

Topic: Career Goal Setting

Checklist:

1.Explore the many different career resources included in the Unit 9 Reading and explain how you will make specific use of at least two of these resources as you focus on achieving your own career goals (remember, reaching a goal is much like solving a problem).

The Reading is uploaded in the additional materials