CREATING YOUR CAREER ROADMAP
Developing a career roadmap is essential to achieving your professional goals. Keeping a Career Journal can be key in developing your unique roadmap. This guide will help you create a plan for your next steps, including:
- 1. Identifying Your Strengths and Interests: Understanding what you enjoy and excel at is the first step in designing your career path.
- 2. Setting Short- and Long-Term Goals: Establish measurable, achievable milestones to guide your journey.
- 3. Creating Action Plans: Outline the steps, resources, and people that can help you achieve each goal.
- 4. Seeking Feedback and Mentorship: Engage with mentors and seek feedback to stay on track.
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Identifying Your Strengths and Interests:
Understanding what you enjoy and excel at is the first step in designing your career path.
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Setting Short- and Long-Term Goals:
Establish measurable, achievable milestones to guide your journey.
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Creating Action Plans:
Outline the steps, resources, and people that can help you achieve each goal.
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Seeking Feedback and Mentorship:
Engage with mentors and seek feedback to stay on track.
EXPLORE POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS
It takes an incredible variety of roles to make our world-renowned care possible – including some you may not have even thought of before. To help you craft a well-informed Career Roadmap, we invite you to look at some of the diverse roles available throughout the UCLA Health system and the requirements of these positions to find what might interest you.
Select a career you are truly passionate about, and then work really hard to achieve amazing results. The rest, including success, will follow.
Janet Rimicci – Sr. Executive Director
ROADMAP RESOURCES
The following articles provide helpful information that can go into creating your own personal Career Roadmap.
Career Values: How to Identify Yours
INDEED
Speaking with your manager about your career growth, or areas you’d like to develop, may seem intimidating. This article provides best practices for preparing for and holding that conversation, as well as following up with specific action steps, so that you can be proactive and take control of your career growth.
Examples of Short- and Long-Term Career Goals
NIAGRA INSTITUTE
If it’s been a while since you’ve been in the job search process, review these tips for how to get started.
