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The following are all valid goals for an action plan:
To get more involved in a student society to get to know more people.
Deciding what skills I need to improve and deciding how I will
improve them.
A study of 327 job seekers.by Prof. Daniel Turban, University of Missouri
College of Business found that writing a plan at the start of your job
search, has a big impact on success: make a plan and continuously assess
your progress.
"Thinking about a plan, acting on a plan and reflecting upon that a plan
were important early in the job search while having positive emotions
were important later in the job search"
You also have to expect rejections and develop a coping strategy in
advance. This should help maintain positive emotions during the process
to improve your chances of getting a job. Positive emotions may help job
seekers behave more confidently and cope better with stress, “thereby
responding more skillfully in interviews than job seekers with less
positive emotions”
“People don’t have strategies, they don’t assess their plans and they don’t
think about their strategies and reflect on whether it’s working or how to
make them work better. They just don’t do it."
When careers action planning there are likely to be three main areas for
action plans. These are:
Choosing the career you wish to enter.
Working out a strategy to help you enter this career e.g. application
and interviews.
Developing skills that you need to acquire to allow you to enter the
career of your choice and to be successful in it.
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