National College for School Leadership

Career planning tool (Aspiring Heads)

Career planning

Career planning is about making choices - exactly the kinds of choices that will have characterised your career to now.

For almost everyone, career pathways emerge from a complex combination of personal and professional aspirations and whether consciously or not, you have successfully planned your career to date. The next career step may bring new challenges, but the planning processes are the same.

This tool is designed to assist you with the next phase of your career journey as you move toward headship. Taking stock of your current situation and reflecting on future goals will allow you to identify those development needs which will be required to meet future job demands in the short, medium and longer term.

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