Career Planning Tip: Make a Personal SWOT
Career planning gives a person a direction, a career path that will serve as a guide in pursuing his career goals. There are certain techniques and processes that help skilled workers and professionals in planning their career.
Recently, I learned about strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats or SWOT, another powerful model that could help give your career a better shape. Basically, SWOT is used by MBA students in analyzing business and companies. But if you’re not an MBA student, it doesn’t mean you can’t make your own and apply it to yourself.
Ian Christie of Monster.com has written an article that gives a straight-forward lecture on how to create a personal SWOT analysis. Try it for yourself and let me know how it works for you.