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Change is all around us _ in our personal lives, our professions, our communities, and in this complex world that touches all of us.
This career/life planning program offers a process that will enable you to find your most effective ways of initiating change and responding to changes created by others.
To change is to risk _ to give up some of what is known and comfortable for something which is perhaps only evolving. Changing in one area will have an impact on all others areas of our lives. For this reason, we prefer to look at career planning as an integral part of life planning. Each time we change a facet of our career, we affect the relationships we have with our families, friends and community. Career and lifestyle interconnect.
Most of you will have several careers during your working life. Some of those careers have not yet been invented. Nevertheless, your personal capacities and uniquenesses will allow you to find your niche.
One strongly-emerging career trend is Entrepreneurship. As we enter the new millennium, more than half of the workforce in North America is self-employed in one or other capacity. This includes: working on contracts within your areas of specialty; owning and operating a small business; providing products, services and information to consumers and previous employers; developing and delivering specialty services; forming 'strategic alliances' with other specialists.
Many professionals who traditionally worked in institutions or organizations, will do their work independently in association with compatible other professionals.
It is crucial, therefore, that as part of your own career planning, you keep Entrepreneurship in mind. Begin by resolving to manage your own career, even if you expect to be employed by an organization. Being in charge of your career means taking responsibility for making it happen.
