HEALTH

• Steps in making a personal health career plan


  1. Self-Assessment

  2. Career Exploration

  3. Decision Making

  4. Plan of Action
• Self-Assessment


  Evaluating your strengths, weaknesses, interests, hobbies, personal experiences, family income, skills, and competencies
• Career Exploration


  Exploring health career options through different ways or methods like reading articles, browsing the net, attending fora, and meetings
• Activities in Career Exploration


  • Listing down of health career options
  • Conducting informational interview
  • Job shadowing (on-the-job learning)
  • Job temping (short term job)
  • Attending internship
  • Volunteering
• Decision Making


  Considering both current and future goals in life by narrowing down your choices
• Activities in Decision Making


  • Listing of pros and cons
  • Comparing your personal strengths and interests
  • Choosing a specific health career to pursue
  • Considering suggestion of family
  • Deciding a health career to take
• Plan of Action


  Designing your action plan or identifying and organizing the necessary steps to achieve your desired goals
• Activities in Plan of Action


  • Designing a plan to reach health career goals
  • Identifying short-term and long-term goals
  • Identifying education and training requirements
  • Developing job search strategies
  • Creating road map considering possible problems that may arise along the way
• There are ways to come-up with your Personal Health Career Plan: textual, tabular, and graphical forms
• Steps in making a health career plan


  1. Self-Assessment

  2. Career Exploration

  3. Decision Making

  4. Plan of Action
• Components of Self-Assessment


  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • Skills
  • Abilities
• Components of Career Exploration


  • Attending fora
  • Job shadowing
  • Job temping
  • Searching the net
• Components of Decision Making


  • Listing down pros and cons
  • Considering suggestion of family
  • Choosing a specific health career
• Components of Plan of Action


  • Identifying short-term and long-term goals
  • Designing a plan to reach health career goals
  • Identifying education and training requirements
• Health career planning involves four important steps: Self-Assessment, Career Exploration, Decision Making, and Plan of Action
• Each step in health career planning has essential components to consider