Careers Planning Kit

Lifestyle First

What’s the point of careers planning if the ouput isn’t a lifestyle you really really want?

A lot of careers planning processes miss this.  You must start with ‘lifestyle planning’ and work backwards.  It doesn’t have to be anything too fancy (but it can be).  You need to determine where you want to live, with who, doing what outside of work, and where and so on.  And how much money you’ll need to earn to enable this lifestyle.

Then you can start planning your ideal career to enable this, based on your strengths, talents, interests etc

But where and how do you start with all of this?  Read on…

Careers Planning Alone?

A lot of careers planning processes isolate you.  You’re either on your own planning your career, or you might have paid someone to help you one to one.  But what about all the juicy ideas you could get from other people?  Two heads are better than one, and many heads are better than two.  What if someone else had that one idea that you hadn’t yet found that could change your career direction forever?  Connecting with others is so easy these days - so use their brain power to help you!

If you want to plan your career and lifestyle out with the help of other like-minded people, then checkout The Great Career Escape:

http://www.thegreatcareerescape.com

There’s a free account that you can sign up for, a free ebook to help you find and get in to your ideal career, and you can use the social networking on the site and forums to connect with others, and get thinking and planning your years ahead.

The site is evolving fast, has a full careers planning process for you to follow through to find and get in to your ideal career, and will be kept up to date with careers planning ideas, tools, tips and resources.

http://www.thegreatcareerescape.com