health career

• Health career offers good salary, job security, and most especially you will make a difference in people's lives.
• A health career plan has four steps
• Health careers refer to the different careers related to medical and other allied health professionals. The tasks of health care workers and professionals are enormous yet rewarding because their works focus on wellness and prevention of illnesses.
• Health career plan is an individual action or initiative in making career choice, in growing in chosen career or in making a career shift which involves a very important discernment.
• 4 important components and steps in career planning:

  1. self assessment

  2. career exploration

  3. decision making

  4. plan of action
• self assessment is the first step in knowing the health career that suits you.
• self assessment requires an honest evaluation of yourself
• 8 components in self assessment:

  strengths

  weaknesses

  interest

  hobbies

  personal experiences

  family income

  skills

  competencies
• step 2. career exploration
• step 1. self-assessment
• career exploration is exploring health career options through different ways or methods is an essential step to choosing a particular health career paths to take
• career exploration is about knowing where to look and what to look for.
• career exploration refers to searching different careers and work environments that suit you.
• career exploration step includes:

  1. listing down health career options
  2. conducting informational interview
  3. job shadowing
  4. job tempting
  5. attending internship
  6. volunteering
• job shadowing is on-the-job learning
• job tempting is short term job
• step 3. decision making
• decision making is considering both current and future goals in life by narrowing down your choices
• Decision making includes the following:

  1. listing of pros and cons
  2. comparing your personal strengths and interests
  3. choosing a specific health career to pursue
  4. considering suggestion of family
  5. deciding a health career to take
• step 4. plan of action
• plan of action refers to designing your own career plan or action plan or identify and organize the necessary steps to achieve your desired goals
• plan of action includes:

  1. designing a plan to reach health career goals
  2. identify short-term and long-term goals
  3. identifying education and training requirements
  4. developing job search strategies
  5. creating a road map considering possible problems that may arise along the way