Career planning and review
- The importance of reflection, review, and planning
- Clarifying what’s working and what’s not and taking steps to change it
- A structured process, that simplifies what can be challenging work
Career reflection, review and planning is critical to ensuring your satisfaction and engagement in your role. Often overtime, aspects of your role may no longer work for you for many reasons and change needs to occur. Some of these reasons may include:
- A loss of interest and enjoyment in task/role demands.
- A feeling of having ‘done them to death’, which equals boredom and signals it is time for a new challenge.
- The acquisition of new skills and knowledge.
- Task and work demands now take energy from you, which is no longer sustainable.
- There are other interests or opportunities to pursue.
- Personal needs and life demands have changed – the role needs to adapt to respond to this.
Achieving positive change in your professional life is an active process that you as an individual must drive - it can’t be outsourced.
The work of change is often terrifying, uncomfortable, and confronting and therefore avoided by many. However, for those individuals who are brave and vulnerable enough to ask for change, the rewards can be enormous and life changing.
How we can help?
AMA Victoria’s professional development and careers team have created a range of coaching programs designed to support you to complete this important reflective work.
As a first step, begin by booking a ‘Career health check’ with one of our team. It’s a benefit of your membership with AMA Victoria.
- A benefit of your AMA Vic membership
- An annual process
We recommend reviewing your career annually and we call this a ‘Career health check’. It doesn’t have to be an onerous task and can be achieved by asking yourself a few questions which you then debrief with a qualified careers coach.
Please note: The Career health check is not available to student members.
Career coaching
Soon to be launched...
We will be launching a range of career review and planning programs over the next two months. These programs will support doctors at all career stages to reach their professional potential and make informed career choices and decisions.
Programs:
- Career decision
- Annual career review and plan
- Choosing a specialty pathway
- Alternate pathways in medicine
- Career transition
Our programs are designed to engage you in a process of review and reflection so that you can:
- Clarify what is working for you professionally and what is not
- Establish why this is the case and identify what changes you may need to consider
- Make informed and well thought out career decisions that you are confident actioning
- Identify gaps and blind spots in your career planning and management
- Articulate your desired end state – your horizon goal(s)
- Determine the actions: short, mid-term and long-term that will support you to achieve this. The focus of this work being to identify the things you can change that are within your control, as opposed to wasting valuable energy trying to change things outside of your control.
Often the steps are simple, sometimes they are not, but when they are implemented with the support of an objective third party (a coach) the change that can be achieved is often profound.
We have lost count of the times a client has told us, “I didn’t know I could ask for this! I didn’t know I could say ‘no that doesn’t interest me!’ Are you sure I can do that, contact that person, apply for that opportunity?” The list is endless.
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Career health check
An annual career review doesn't have to be an onerous task and can be achieved by asking yourself a few questions and debriefing with a qualified careers coach.
