#3 Strategy – Decision Making

Decision-making can be one of the most difficult steps in the career planning process.  Finding out more about yourself by doing a thorough self-assessment and then engaging in some career exploration is definitely different than taking this information and coming up with a career decision. Since there are often some conflicts in this part of the process, it’s important to have an objective party to bounce your ideas off of.

Many people freeze at this stage of the process since there are often still many unknowns and very often there’s a fear of making the wrong decision.  The key to making a career decision is to take the first two steps into consideration and make a decision based on these results. Also, it’s important to realize that decisions can be changed so making a bad decision is better than making no decision at all.