02.02 Career Plan

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Your CDP must cover all of the following four areas:

1. Executive Summary: The executive summary is a concise statement of the purpose and content of the CDP. The executive summary presents the main points at the beginning of the document and provides a map of the more detailed information that follows. Your career goals and skill goals must be included in the executive summary. It should be no longer than 5-10% of the whole document and should not exceed 2-6 sentences.

2. Career Goals: What are your overall career goals? Where do you want to be professionally when you finish your graduate program? Where do you want to be in your career in the long-term? Some of you entering an SBS Graduate Program have extensive work experience, while some have less. Your career goals will depend on whether …show more content…

Establish one or two goals that are appropriate for the level you have reached in your career and education.
Be sure to explain why your career goals make sense for you.

3. Skill Goals: Functional, Competency, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal. The CDP will outline how you plan to achieve your larger career goals by developing supporting goals in the functional, competency, interpersonal, and intrapersonal skill sets. Though you must state specific, focused, and realistic goals in each of these four areas, you do not need to include every developmental need or list every strength.

A. Functional Skill Set (e.g., Marketing, Accounting, Finance, etc.)

a. What are your professional goals with respect to your functional skill set? Include relevant insights or evidence that explains why you will focus on these. You must

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