Your Career Plan is a Business Plan

As a Career Services Specialist and Certified Professional Resume Writer, I understand the challenges and the difficulties job candidates encounter. Securing your dream career is not a task to be taken lightly or without guidance. You must begin by understanding one basic fact: Your career plan is a business plan.

Think about it: If you were starting a business, you would gather the best resources available; research your product or service, your market, your competition, and your customers. You would evaluate and build the foundation needed to launch, sustain, and grow that business as well as monitor your progress, growth, and status in the marketplace on a daily basis.

Much the same way, your career is a business venture. In order to be competitive, you must tend to your career just as meticulously. That means knowing the answers to the following:

Vision Quest: Where are you going and where do you see yourself in the years to come? What are the personal missions underlying your career plan?

Itemized Offerings: What are you selling a company at this second? What abilities and aptitudes do you offer? What knowledge, skills, and experience do you possess that will truly benefit that company? Do you offer anything unique (everyone does—some just need a gentle reminder)? What currently qualifies you to succeed?

Atmospheric Condition: What’s going on with the employment scene and how does it affect you? Are there barriers to entry and how can you turn these barriers into opportunities for yourself?

Client Consciousness: What are the needs of the customer? Who needs you and how are their needs currently being filled without you? (Perhaps they are not being filled adequately without you!)

Comparative Advantage: Who are your competitors and what can you learn from them? What strategies are they using and how can you do a better job? Do you represent a better “business model”? Can you package yourself in a more compelling or appealing way?

Money Matters: How are you going to finance your plan? What are the income projections and operating costs? What is the minimum amount required to stay in business? (For “you” to stay in the business of a career search.)

Promotional Plan: Have you outlined a strategy to break into the market, region, or company that you desire? How will you introduce yourself to the market? How will you package yourself?

Product Analysis: What tools do you need to progress from concept to reality? What is the current status of the product (the positive contributions that you can make)? Whose assistance do you need? How will you get it? Process Packaging: What undone items must be completed? What resources do you need to accomplish tasks? Can you get them? What are the estimated timelines?

Market Penetration: Are you prepared to hit the pavement, advertise, persevere, and never let obstacles block success?

Career Center: What are your long term goals and how will you get there? Where do you want to be in one year? Three years? Five years? What professional development activities, now and in the future will you need to complete to ensure success? Your career plan is a business plan. Effort, sacrifice, planning, diligence, and commitment are the common themes defining leaders in all industries.

Today, you can receive the necessary tools to conceive, develop, and execute a personalized and effective career plan for YOUR success through my resume writing and career coaching services for you. We encourage you to not only pursue our services, but to also consider the material presented in this blog throughout the growth of your career life cycle; never put it down and never stop progressing!

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