You will apply what you have learned about values, skills, and goals setting to make a career action plan in Microsoft PowerPoint format.

Career Action Plan

Refer to the values, skills, and goals sections of your IDP and take some time to think seriously about where you would like to be in your future career and how you will get there. Once you have generated some ideas, create a career action plan in PowerPoint format in which you specifically focus on all of the following:

Before you begin, note that all of your goals must be S.M.A.R.T. goals.

1.Provide a title slide for your presentation (Slide1).
2.Provide a long-term career goal (Slide 2): Your career goal should be a goal that you can realistically accomplish in approximately 27 years.
3.Insert your current skills My Present
Refer to tab 2 of the IDP regarding your skills. Where are you right now in terms of your career progress? What current strengths and weaknesses can you identify? What current skills and experiences do you have that make you stand out? This question is important because it will help you to establish a clear picture of your current skills, experiences, and areas for improvement as well. You will want to make sure to reflect upon recent course readings, discussions, and activities that have helped you to recognize your strengths, weaknesses, interests, and abilities.

Break your goals down into short and long term My Future

Make sure that you delineate how the long-term goal is reached by breaking it down into short-term goals of 1 month to 2 years per the IDP, and long-term goals from 2 to 4 years and 4 years to 7 years for the long term (as shown in your IDP, tab 3). Note the connections between the goals. You can access an example on tab 4 of the IDP.

Provide the strategy and process My Path
Describe your strategy for success by explaining the route you will take to move from point A (my present), to point B (progress towards achieving goals), to point C (achievement of short-term goals) and all the way to point D (achievement of long-term goals). Make sure to also identify at least two specific career resources from the Unit 9 Reading that you might make use of as you are working towards achieving your career goal and explain why these resources will be helpful.

Provide your action plan My Actions
What are some of the steps or actions you will need to complete in order to get your desired outcome (minimum three steps/actions)? Make sure to include a projected completion date for each step/action. Include a mix of short-term and long-term action items/completion dates.

Goals
Add your academic goals (in personal or professional goals sections depending on what your personal and professional goals are) to your action plan presentation and how you will achieve these.

Values
Explain how your values that you inserted in your IDP on tab 1 are aligned with your goals as shown in your action plan.

You will prepare a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 14 slides to include a title slide for submission.

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