Map Your Career Path

Individuals have several options to pursue to achieve their long-term goals. Different career paths can lead to similar career goals, like different geographic paths to the same map location. I developed the Career Path worksheet to help you brainstorm where you are, what you want to achieve, and the possible paths for achieving your goals.

You can move through the worksheet from top to bottom or bottom to top, but spend time on each section:

• Your current strengths, knowledge, skills, and experience (bottom)
• Long-term goals and the knowledge, skills, and experience needed (top)
• Immediate career options and the knowledge, skills, and experience needed (middle)

Career Path worksheet

Take a first pass at filling out the worksheet based on what you already know and ideas you've already developed. 

If you get stuck, check out these resources.
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Current strengths
Self-assessment resources
Strengths Based Leadership – ($$) Assesses your top leadership strengths and provides specific strategies for leading with your top five strengths. 

Immediate career options
Career transition resource page and other worksheets,

Long-term goals
Career transition resource page and other worksheets, 

And, don't forget that networking with other professionals is the best way to discover career options and what those jobs look like today. 

There isn't just one way to achieve your goals. But, with a little work, you can figure out your best options.