Assignment: Creating Your Personal Action Plan
Time Estimate: Approx. 30-60 minutes
Description
Taking in the reflections from throughout this module, write a 300-500 word personal action plan outlining
- your commitments you’d like to make regarding your career development,
- the necessary next steps for your career growth, and timing for these, and
- how your recent WIL experience informs these commitments.
You may use the following prompts, in addition to expanding upon your goal setting activity, to support your writing:
- How does this experience influence your future career decisions over all?
- What values were reinforced or challenged in this experience, and what did you learn from them being reinforced or challenged?
- What kind of impact(s) were you able to (or not able to) achieve or contribute to in this project? Would you like to continue this kind of contribution? Or do you have other impacts you’d hope to achieve?
- Did you enjoy the kind of work you did? Why or why not, and how will this inform your future job search?
- What competencies did you develop and look forward to further using in you career?
- What competencies were underdeveloped that you look forward to developing further, and how so?