Career Planner

Name Date
Use this Career Planner to save your findings, ideas and actions from the Thomson Reuters Career Planning website. Use the activities on
the website to help you set career and development goals with direction. Record and regularly review your goals and update your Career
Planner as you make progress. Record your career aspirations and plans in your online development plan. See items marked ‘Development
Plan’ and the relevant system field number. To access your online development plan, go to OPM > Select Appropriate Year > From the
Individual Role tab, click on “Draft Development Plan” > Click on “Career Aspirations”.

Looking Inward
What motivates you at work? What talents do you bring? Where are you in your career?
Your top 5 values and strengths Personal 1. Confidence in potentials
Values:
2. Sustained Practices
3. Desire to achieve
4.
5.
Strengths: 1. Motivated
2. Goal Oriented
3. Passionate
4.
5.
Your work motivators

Competencies Strengths: ITIL Process

Need to Build: IT Goverance, Project Management, Account Management, Global Delivery

process.

Your readiness for progression

(Development Plan Item 3)

Your work preferences IT Operation, Strategic Planning, Customer collaboration.

Your brand Middle Management

Reflect on your findings from the

Looking Inward activities and
summarize:
• The sort of work that most energizes you
• The special strengths and talents you bring
to your work
• What your findings tell you about the sort of
work you should do in the future
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Looking outward
What opportunities are available? What and who should you know? Explore others’ career stories.
Career Considerations, Paths and What is your mobility
Types of Moves for the same/different
location for a short/
longer term move?
(Development Plan Item 4)

What career directions or

job categories/families are
of interest? (Development
Plan Item 5)

What types of moves are

of interest?

Networking Opportunities In what areas do you need

and Elevator Pitch/Summary to expand your network?
Statement

With which contacts

might you start
networking and how?

If the perfect opportunity

arose, on whom would
you use your elevator
pitch/ summary
statement?

Identify meetings,
conferences or other
opportunities in the near
future where you could try
out your elevator pitch/
summary statement.
Reflect on your findings from the
Looking Outward activities and
summarize:
• The sorts of roles, departments,
locations and the types of moves that
are of interest
• Any information and/or contacts that
would enable you to better do your
current role and/or equip you for
future opportunities
• Actions you need to take to expand
your contacts, gather information
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Looking Forward
What are your career goals? Prepare for career discussions. Make your development plan work.
Create Career Goals Fuzzy Vision:
Use insights from Looking Inward and Looking
Outward to set goals with these 3 horizons.
Within the
next 5 years:
(Development
Plan Item 1)
Near term:
(up to 12 months
Development
Plan Item 2)*
Development areas for short term
career goal, e.g.: skills, experience

Development areas for longer term

career goal, e.g.: skills, experience

Career Discussion feedback

2-3 development priorities for current

year (Development Plan Item 6)
Consider:
• Input from your manager
• What experience or skill/competency, if
developed to the next level, would most help
you deliver on your objectives this year?
• If you were to focus on one of your career de-
velopment goals, which skill/ competency or
experience will most support you to achieve
that goal?
• Your readiness for progression (Looking In-
ward). Where is your development focus - on
this role or for the future or a combination?
Learning and Development plans /
activities (Development Plan Item 7)
Detail actions you will take to achieve priorities
Reflect on your findings from the
Looking Forward activities and
summarize:
• Any actions you need to take to finalize your
career goals
• Actions you need to take to ensure your devel-
opment plans are realized in the current year
• Answers to the 6 Career Questions in prepa-
ration for career discussions
• The development you will need for your
longer term career goals. Aim to explore the
experience/skills/knowledge you aspire to
gain with your manager in career discussions.
Note: while this development might not be a
priority for your current role/this year’s objec-
tives, you should keep it in your sights.