A career plan is written strategy which helps clarify individual skills and interests and outlines the training required to reach career goals.
According to Mapping Your Future, a career plan sharpens the planner’s focus and even helps with writing a resume and explaining your skills to potential employers. Career plans can be written according to several different formats, but ultimately they contain the chosen career and the steps required to get to it. A career goal may be a specific job, such as a “pediatrician,” or may be more general such as “a career in medicine.” To some extent, the content of the plan depend on the stage of life of the planner. A high school student may not be completely decided on a specific career, and may not even be sure about their job aptitudes.