Our career planning template helps you build a career plan you can feel confident in.

Your career is your biggest opportunity to make a difference. This career planning template helps you figure out where to aim and what to do next — from choosing which problems to tackle, to narrowing your options, to making a plan you’ll actually follow through on.

What’s inside

1. Your criteria for a fulfilling career — Identify the factors that matter most to you in a job.
2. Your starting position — Take stock of your existing skills, credentials, connections, and runway.
3. Global problems — Build a shortlist of the problems you most want your career to address.
4. Longer-term career paths — Narrow down the most promising paths based on impact and personal fit.
5. Next steps — Identify which career stage you’re in and generate concrete options for your immediate next step.
6. Your A/B/Z plan — Draft your primary plan, a backup, and a fallback.
7. Investigate your plan — Rank your key uncertainties and figure out how to resolve them.
8. Put it into action — Define your next three steps with dates.

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