12 Steps to a New Career

12 Creating Your Strategic Plan

A job or career search without a plan is like a journey without an end.

Chapter Overview

Chapters 1 through 11 give you the information and insight you need to know and do before making a job or career change. You’re now ready to use your skills and knowledge to create your strategic plan in pursuit of your career aspirations.

But wait! What do you do first? How do you keep track of everything you need to do in some sort of a logical order? How do you put all the information you just learned into some sort of a plan—a strategic plan?

Tell me and I’ll forget;

show me and I may remember;

involve me and I’ll understand.

—Chinese proverb

If I approached this book only by communicating the lessons, techniques, and experience ...