CGC-ebook Sample Edition 4.0

You r F u t u r e s Ac t i on P l an . Writing an action plan is a good way to focus your ideas and decide on what steps you need to take to move towards your career and life goals. What kind of career do you want to have? What kind of lifestyle do you want to live? These aren’t always easy questions to answer, but writing your Futures Plan is a way to get you thinking about this. Where am I now? Use this section to summarise the things you are doing at the minute. What are you you studying at school? What subjects are you enjoying? What interests do you have outside of school? What makes you different to others around you? Can you talk about the qualities and skills you have? Where I want to be? What qualifications do you need to achieve? What skills do you think you need to develop? What sor t of work experience might help you? Do you need some guidance on these things? Try and state the action and timescale by which you need to accomplish these things. Try and work out what could be a shor t term,

you need to develop. Would any work experience help? Or building a por tfolio of work. Do you need to attend a career event or get an interview with your careers advisor. Try and state the action and timescales by which you need to accomplish these tasks. What could be a short term goal, medium term and what are you long term goals? What happens next? Once you have completed the plan you can submit it to the careers team to have a look at. They will then get back to you with some suggestions on things you could add. How long will it take to complete? It all depends on you. You should spend at least 20-30minutes on this. Ready to go?

medium or long term goal. How I plan to get there?

This is the par t where you need to detail the steps you need to take. What actions do you need to take between now and the future you have planned out. What advice might you need and from whom? What qualifications do you need to achieve, what skills do you think

Star t my Plan