Personal Health Career Plan

Career
- A career is an occupation or profession.
- It requires education, special training or work experience.

Health careers
- Are designed to let students familiarize various careers in the
medical profession and allied health services.

- Skills in healthcare is learned and it is necessary in this career

path.
- These would include working with others, communication skills,
legal and ethical responsibilities, cultural considerations in healthcare
industry, problem solving decision making, accepting personal
responsibility, and self-management.

- Health career planning refers to an individual’s plan to make a

career
choice, growing in the chosen career or making a career shift.

- Career planning involves very important step of self-assessment.

- Self-assessment is necessary to understand one’s capabilities and
drawbacks.

- A career is more than the salary you get.

- It’s something you’ll be doing 24 hours in many years.
- That’s why you should carefully consider the reasons you are
choosing your career.

Reasons to Pursue a Health Career :

1. You’ll enjoy job security

2. You will do work that interests you
3. You can live and work anywhere you want
4. You can find a health career that fits your educational plans
5. You’ll have a clear path to advancement
6. You’ll earn a good salary
7. You can work with people (or not)
8. You’ll make a difference in people’s lives
 Components and Steps in Making Health Career Plan:

1. Self-Assessment
- Discover your personal strengths through self-assessment (values,
interests, personality, testing, skills, etc.

2. Career Exploration
- You can explore different careers and work environments through
career fairs, online research, meetings, internship, alumni
connections, and professional resources

3. Decision Making
- Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can
evaluate and narrow down your options through listing the pros
and cons, comparing your personal strengths and interests, and
deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.

4. Plan of Action
- Plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals,
organize your goals into smaller steps, identity actions for each step,
and adapt your plan.