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MGMT1003 Strategic Career Design Assignment - Curtin University, Australia

Assessment - Career Plan

Strategic career management is a reflective, on-going planning process of identifying and implementing incremental, realistic short-term and long-term career goals . A career plan should be realistic, cohesive, and adaptable; it also needs show evidence of thoughtful planning to illustrate a practical pathway to attain your career objectives. Furthermore, it must be supported by the provision of an alternative pathway to mitigate possible change of circumstances.

Your career is a journey - not an end destination...

Instructions: You need to develop a Career Plan for yourself for the next 5 years. Focus on the next 2-3 years, with five years being your long term plan.

Format: A report with sub-headings to address the following:

1. Who you are (professional and personal life): discuss your values, your career motivations and your purpose / outlook on life. Identify what meaningful / purposeful work is. Discuss external influences on your career decision making. Use the 'Your Compass' activity, Inheritance factor reflections, Odyssey Plans, 'Wayfinding', 'The Good Times Journal' and other self-reflective activities we have encouraged you to engage with this semester.

2. A career vision statement - a succinct statement outlining your ultimate career ambitions.

3. A professional profile summary statement that can be included as part of your professional identity on digital platforms (e.g. profile summary for LinkedIn).

4. Explanation of how you are going to brand your career by controlling your current and future professional digital identity and footprint (e.g. practical steps such as sectioning off public from private).

5. An Employability Skills Self-Evaluation. Identify the skills you possess; the skills you will need; and the skills you would like to develop. Use the EmployABILITY survey results, Group Poster Presentation Self-reflection and other employability skill reflections you may have completed in your tutorials to assist with this.

6. Professional network development - discuss how, with whom and where to establish a network. Identify the type of places /spaces, events and organisations as well as professionals you would like as a part of the network. Currently, which relationships need more nurturing and which ones are strong? Use Career Passport to assist with this.

7. Outline your career goals (major & minor / short term & long term). Discuss how you are going to achieve them by identifying the required steps and a possible time frame. Your major, long-term goals can be split into smaller, incremental steps. Use the Odyssey Plans to assist with your goal planning.

8. Produce 2 timelines (your main pathway and an alternative pathway) as visual representations of your career plan over the next 2-3 years. Extrapolate ideas from your Odyssey Plans.

9. Outline a long-term career vision. This will frame a picture for the next 5 years. Although it may be fairly vague or general at this point in time, it is a space for on-going development in your career plan. Your Odyssey will also be helpful here.

10. Referencing - use a minimum of 6 academic sources of information - industry reports, journal articles, academic books. No websites. Your list of references should be the last page of your report. Please follow Chicago 17B format. There are a number of reports that have been included as essential reading this semester -these can be included in your list of references. My lecture slides are not an acceptable source of information or to be used as a reference.

11. Optional: the inclusion of tables and / or diagrams to support your plan.

12. Make sure you have a Table of Contents as your first page after your cover page.

Report Structure - The structure required is the same as that for an informational report. This means we do not require recommendations or an abstract.

The following is the structure to be followed:

1. Cover/Title page

2. Table of contents

3. Introduction

4. Discussion under headings (this is the content of your report)

5. Conclusion

6. List of references

7. Any appendices (these are attachments, such as 'Your Compass', your two timelines, etc.) Appendices do not count toward your word count.

Attachment:- Strategic Career Design Assignment File.rar