Health

• career - is an occupation or profession that requires special training.
• Health careers - are designed to familiarize students with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services.
• Health career Planning - refers to an individual's plan to make a career choice, growing in the chosen career or making a career shift.
• Things to consider in choosing a Career:

  • Good Salary
  • Job Security
  • Do work that interests you
  • Find a Health Career that fits your educational plans

  • A clear path to advancement

  *Work with people (or not)
• components and steps in making a health career plan

  1. Self - Assessment
  2. Career Exploration
  3. Decision-making
  4. Plan of Action
• Self-Assessment - Discover your personal strengths through self-assessments (values, interests, personality, testing, skills, etc.
• Self Assessment - It is the first step in career planning and means finding out more about what you want from work.
• Self-Assessment - It includes analyzing your values, skills, and interests to find out what you want from your career. Your goal is to find the role(s) that match with as many of your personal attributes as possible.
• Career Exploration - You can explore different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional resources. Careful research into your career options is important. Do not rely on preconceptions. The key is to create a well-rounded picture of the environment in which you will be working and think carefully about whether you can see yourself succeeding on that career path.
• Decision-Making - Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can evaluate and narrow down your options through listing the pros and cons, comparing your personal strengths and interests, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.
• Decision-Making - It is now time to act on what you already know and make some clearer choices. To be comfortable with the choices you make, you must be confident in your decision making. There is no right way' to go about this and people have different approaches that work for them.
• Plan of Action - Plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals, organize your goals into smaller steps, identify actions for each step, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt your plan regularly