Tiếng ViệtReflect
This is the first step to help you better understand your characteristics and identify important and meaningful factors in your career. These insights are the foundation for building a suitable career development plan. In this step, you need to deeply reflect on yourself in various aspects: life values, strengths, weaknesses, interests, and past experiences.
Suggested Approach:
Take quality time and space to reflect and answer the following important questions:
Expectations:
• What life values are truly important to me, and how do they influence my career choices?
• What career path do I want to pursue?
Capabilities:
• What are my strengths, and what skills do I need to further develop to advance in my career?
• How can I learn and improve my abilities?
Motivation:
• What truly makes me feel passionate and energized when working?
• What do I want to achieve in the future, and what steps are necessary to get there?
Tool
We recommend the CliftonStrengths® tool to support the process of identifying and assessing your strengths.
Assess
This is the stage where you need to position yourself and assess your current skill proficiency by gathering feedback and using self-assessment tools. The results will help you identify career opportunities and challenges, as well as the skills you need to supplement to develop and improve yourself.
Suggested Approach:
Gather evaluations from others:
• Collect feedback: Ask for feedback from colleagues, managers, friends, or family about your skills and performance.
• Use the feedback: Compare this feedback with your self-assessment to identify potential strengths and weaknesses.
Self-assessment:
• Use tools: Take competency and personality assessments to gain a better understanding of yourself.
• Record results: Store and compare self-assessment results with feedback from others.
Evaluate the current social and economic context:
• Analyze economic trends: Observe and assess current economic and industry trends.
• Research the industry: Read industry reports, attend seminars, and follow relevant news.
Analyze future industry trends:
• Development trends: Explore the future skill requirements of the market and industry, as well as the latest technologies in your field.
• Opportunities and challenges: Identify opportunities and challenges in your field.
Identify skill gaps:
• Compare skills: Compare your current skills with those needed for your career goals.
• Analyze learning and development plans: Examine plans to enhance skills through training and coaching programs
Tool
Reflective Learnings offers a suggested questionnaire to help you assess your satisfaction with your current job. This allows you to objectively review ongoing issues and devise solutions to improve your career journey.
Connect with us:
After completing the questionaire, regardless of your results, don’t hesitate to connect with a Career Development Specialist at Reflective Learnings to receive career strategy advice that will help you achieve greater satisfaction in your career journey and personal life.
Choose
This step helps you envision the future you want to achieve. At this stage, you need to set clear short-term and long-term goals, identifying viable paths to reach those goals.
Suggested Approach
Set appropriate goals:
• Based on your abilities and qualities: Identify goals that align with your skills, capabilities, and personal traits. Ensure these goals leverage your strengths and address your weaknesses.
• Consider societal needs: Evaluate current social trends and labor market demands. Choose goals that are in demand and have growth potential.
• Aligned with your passion and aspirations: Make sure your goals reflect your true passion and aspirations to maintain motivation and inspiration at work.
Develop a strategy:
• Career research: Explore different career paths, including job changes, advancement in your current role, or simply acquiring new skills.
• Consider various paths: Compare options based on criteria such as growth potential, personal fulfillment, and the likelihood of achieving your goals.
Balance short-term and long-term goals:
• Long-term goals: Major objectives to be achieved within the next 5-10 years.
• Short-term goals: Smaller, more specific goals to be achieved within 1-2 years, which support the long-term objectives.
Connect with us
The Career Development Specialist Team at Reflective Learnings is always ready to listen, offer solutions, and help you analyze and create a suitable and strategic career development plan.
Execute
This is the action phase to turn your goals into reality. To achieve this, you need to create a detailed plan with specific milestones and a timeline. At the same time, identify the necessary resources and seek support from mentors and colleagues. Keep in mind that executing the plan requires commitment and continuous effort to accomplish the goals set.
Suggested Approach
Success mapping:
• Define success or effectiveness: Ensure you clearly define the key elements and outcomes you want to achieve.
• Set a timeline: Create a specific schedule for each step of implementation.
• Identify milestones: Set important milestones to track and evaluate progress.
Utilize resources:
• Enhance your skills: Use books, online courses, reference materials, and other learning resources to improve your knowledge and skills.
• Seek support from mentors: Get guidance and support from experienced professionals in your field.
• Leverage your network: Use your network to find opportunities and get support.
Commitment and action:
• Commit to the plan: Make sure you are fully committed to the plan you have created. This requires persistence and determination to overcome challenges and obstacles.
• Act quickly and efficiently: Ensure each action is executed promptly and efficiently to achieve the best results in the shortest time.
• Monitor progress: Regularly track your progress to make sure you’re on the right path.
Tool
Explore the essential mindsets and skills needed to realize your goals and career development plan with our book LEARN DEEPLY – REFLECT SWIFTLY – ACHIEVE EARLY
Navigate
This is the phase where you need to regularly monitor progress and make adjustments as needed by seeking feedback and finding solutions to maintain and restore motivation to overcome obstacles.
Suggested Approach
Always ensure clarity about progress and goals:
• Track progress: Use management tools like Gantt charts, task management software, or a work journal to monitor progress, ensuring you stay on track.
• Adjust when necessary: Regularly reassess your goals and flexibly adjust the plan when changes or new information arise to maintain clarity in your career direction.
Develop adaptability and maintain resilience:
• Adaptability: Enhance your adaptability and make adjustments as needed.
Resilience: Learn how to face challenges and overcome difficulties during the execution of the plan.
• Seek support: Continuously develop and improve your personal capabilities while accepting support when necessary.
Maintain Passion and Life Balance:
• Stay motivated: Find sources of inspiration such as reading books, attending motivational talks, or joining communities with similar goals.
• Maintain balance: Ensure a balance between work and personal life by making time for leisure, relaxation, and self-care to maintain long-term health, spirit, and positive energy
Tool
We recommend using the Hogan tool to help scientifically analyze your personality to gain deeper insights into your core driver of behaviors and help leverage this to better develop your career path.
