Article updated on November 27, 2024.
Have you ever wondered if you are where you want to be in your professional career? Sometimes, professional life takes us down paths we never imagined. Some days you wake up full of inspiration, believing you are exactly where you should be. Other days, you wonder if it's time to change, to explore new possibilities, or to pursue those goals you've always had in mind. It's time to stop thinking about the future and start writing your own story. And to help you, we created the Professional Career Planner. Get to know it...
FREED's Professional Career Planner is more than a tool; it's your guide for that pause you need to think, rethink, and build the career you truly desire. Because taking control of your future begins with a decision: to do it!
If you're looking for clarity, direction, or simply a push to move towards your goals, this planner is designed to help you. It doesn't matter if you're at the beginning of your career, in a stage of change, or looking to rediscover your purpose: this is your moment.
FREED's products originated in the academic and consulting fields, to facilitate learning processes in our workshops and training sessions. However, we wanted to expand those limits and share everything we've learned with people like you.
That's why we created this tool, which will bring current design, planning, and development techniques to a greater number of professionals.
Aimed at a more personal scope, the Professional Career Planner will support you in designing the professional career you desire. And this tool is the result of arduous work in collaboration with Populus Group, a company specializing in innovation applied to talent selection.
We developed the Professional Career Planner because we all reach a point where we need to stop and evaluate what we've done professionally, review the experience gained, and, most crucially, decide if it's time to take a new direction.
But before making any changes, it's very important to have enough clarity to choose the best path, and even if it doesn't turn out to be the definitive one, it's vital that it's one that leads you closer to achieving your professional goals.
If you believe this moment has arrived or you simply want to explore your professional interests, for this planner we selected a series of easy-to-do activities, planning tools, and materials for professional career management, which have proven to be very effective in the world of coaching and even in the development of innovative businesses.
Do you know your unique strengths? Are you clear about your value proposition? This planner will help you discover answers that will transform your professional life.
You will find the Personal Canvas, a tool to develop your value proposition, the brand that will distinguish you when you go looking for that new opportunity in the job market.
It will also guide you in building a Curriculum Vitae and Cover Letter, two fundamental elements that you should never leave to chance, as they will be the first thing the recruiter evaluates when you apply for a position.
But this process must begin with self-exploration, to discover how you feel about your current job, if you have reached negative feelings and can no longer see a future of achievements.
This planner will be of great help in what comes next, if in these evaluations you discover that your time to consider a change has arrived. You will begin by building the professional career you wish to develop from this point, projecting your dreams and setting goals.
When it's time to start your search, you will have tips for building your Network, the most effective way to find a job, because 80% of hires come from recommended candidates.
The moment you start considering job offers, you will have an exercise that will allow you to establish the factors that are fundamental for you to make such an important decision.
And, of course, you will have tools to manage your searches and track the selection interviews you have participated in.
But it's not all tasks and analysis, because in the planner to build your professional career you will also find a lot of motivation and inspiration, for those moments when doubts prevent you from seeing the horizon.
In summary, in this planner we developed a series of very useful tools to build your strategy, carry out self-knowledge activities, and plan the next steps in your professional career:
- Diagnostic test of your employment situation.
- Record of personal explorations to build your career.
- Vision board for your aspirations and dreams.
- Self-knowledge to establish initial goals.
- Exploration of your professional resources.
- Personal Canvas to build your value proposition and brand.
- Tips for creating an effective Curriculum Vitae.
- Resources for developing an attractive Cover Letter.
- Building your Network.
- Managing a new job search.
- Considerations for evaluating a job offer.
- Tracking job interviews.
- Monthly planning.
The Professional Career Planner is compatible with e-ink tablets, so you can work on the document using a digital pen. If you prefer, you can also print your planner and work on traditional paper.
Are you clear about which skills you have developed and which you would like to enhance? Do you know what you enjoy most about your current job? Have you defined the professional goals you would like to achieve in the coming months or years?
You can answer these and many more questions by developing the activities proposed in the Professional Career Planner.
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