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The Importance of Choosing a Career Path

Choosing a career path can help you set professional goals and develop a strategy for getting where you want to be. Part of choosing an appropriate career path involves making an honest self-evaluation of your talents, abilities and interests. While elements of your path may change over time due to choice or circumstance, having an overall professional objective with which to guide yourself will help you make critical decisions with greater clarity.

• Education When you have an idea of the career path you want to pursue, it can help you make the best decisions about your training and education.
• Career Planning A career path is just that – a journey, rather than a single one-time decision. Every career path has milestones along the way.
• Long-term Goals When you choose a career path, you position yourself to look far into the future at your ultimate objectives. This can help you identify positions you want to hold and income levels you want to achieve.
• Family Considerations Your choice of profession can dictate where you live and may affect if and when you marry and have a family. Choosing a career path can help you make other important life decisions.