You are reading the Original Version (CLB5+) Read Simple Version (CLB3-4) Anyone can benefit from career planning. Whether you’re a fresh graduate or a seasoned professional, career planning is a great way to evaluate your goals and career trajectory. Planning is especially helpful for you as a newcomer because it can help you re-evaluate your personal and professional goals. It can help you decide early on whether you’d like to go back to school, shift careers, start your own business, or continue in your career path. Career Planning is “a lifelong process that focuses on making choices to help you manage your work and personal life. Good career planning requires information about you, the world of work and commitment.” (Career Development Manitoba, A Guide to Planning your Career). It has five steps (Career Development Decision Making Model, Manitoba.ca): Ideally, you should do this before coming to Canada. But, as mentioned earlier, you can do this at any point in your life, even if you are not a newcomer anymore. You need it because it can help you prepare for: A career development plan makes you focus on resources available to you. You can even come up with several directions or scenarios and list down the pros and cons. You can have short term and a long term plans. Career planning makes the journey clearer and more manageable for you so that goals easier to achieve. It’s a good idea to have your plan in writing. It’s easier to see targets when they are laid out. A checklist can also help motivate you, especially when you begin to get closer and closer to your goal/s. A career plan, however solid it is, is not set in stone. In life, change is constant. Our wants and needs could change, so can your ambition. Remember to evaluate and revise your career plan periodically. Most importantly, don’t forget your ultimate purpose. Never settle and keep reaching for the stars. Goodluck and happy planning! Still in your home country? If you are a federally-approved provincial nominee, you can register with Settlement Online Pre-Arrival (SOPA) for career orientation to help you find and retain work when you land in Canada. If you need additional help, you can get one-on-one coaching with a Settlement coach once you arrive in Manitoba. Both programs are carried out online. Need a career coach to help map out your career plan? Manitoba Start can help you. You can also go to one of the Manitoba Jobs and Skills Development Centres near you. If you want to do it by yourself, here are some helpful resources: Please login to tell us what you think.Skip to:
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Article updated October 26, 2022.Community Resources
Career Planning, Government of Canada Job Bank
Career Planning from the University of Manitoba (Student Affairs Career Services)
A Guide to Planning your Career, Government of ManitobaQuiz
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