Create a career plan
Create a career plan
5 minutes

The Hellomonday Career Plan offers a structured yet flexible framework in inspiring your team member’s career aspirations and bringing them to life. By articulating ambitions and motivations, career exposure, identifying current strengths and opportunities, and establishing goals, your team member steers closer to a future in line with their desires and interests.
The career plan is a collaborative effort. At the same time. your objective as a leader is to help them forecast how they see themselves in the future through guidance. With this framework, the team member leads the way, and you serve to light the path.

As you guide your participant through creating their career plan, this article will serve as your guide. Therefore, all instructions for leaders are found in this article. Meanwhile, instructions for your teammate are included The Career Plan PDF.
Click the download button below to access The Career Plan PDF for your participant.

Instructions:

Instructions:
Recommended exposure exercises
Not only does this give your participant room to stretch their creative muscles with unfamiliar tasks, but it is also learning by experience in a practical way.
By having them shadow, you allow them to gain first-hand experience in how daily tasks and responsibilities would look like, as well as the skills required to perform it.
Is your teammate’s dream career or a similar role being performed by someone in your team or the organisation?
By having them shadow or receive cross training, you allow them to gain first-hand experience in how daily tasks and responsibilities would look like, as well as the skills required to perform it.
Why not set up a conversation? Dive into their journey, ask about the steps they took to succeed, and uncover insights that can inspire and guide.
Here are some recommended questions to get the discussion started:
1. How did you find out this was the career you wanted to pursue?
2. How did you start your journey into this career path?
3. How does your daily routine/tasks look like?
4. What skills or tools do you routinely use?
5. What skills do you think could make your job easier?
6. Can you share any words of wisdom or recommendations for me?
Note: We do not recommend purely going online to check on job descriptions and details. Although convenient, the day-to-day of any job provides opportunity to form organic interactions, allowing room for authentic perspectives.
Debrief Session
After any of these recommended exposure exercises, have a debrief session with your teammate and get to know how they feel about their prospective career path.

Instructions:

Instructions:

One of the most crucial tools in following through a career plan is reinforcement. Should your team mate feel lost or have trouble following through their set goals, click here to check out how you can follow up a career conversation (hyperlink followup career conversations article once published)
There are many possible reasons why the initial career path wouldn’t have worked — this can range from a need for more information, or even wanting to explore a different opportunity. In either case, a good step forward is filtering out other options and clearing the way.
Instructions:
Reevaluation Questions

As you and your teammate loop back to modifying the career plan, allow them time to carefully consider their options. Remember that change can be intimidating and sometimes scary for many, so check in with them once in awhile.
Allow them to express themselves and their thoughts, and offer support and guidance consistently.

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