不管你是刚刚迈进大学校门的新生，抑或是正在奔忙于各种招聘会的毕业生，对自己本身的正确定位，规划自己的职业方向，确定自己的目标，并进而做出相应的努力，都是势在必行的.正是源于此，“大学生职业生涯规划”这个理念是具有积极意义的。
一年级为试探期:要初步了解职业，提高人际沟通能力。大一学习任务不重，应多参加学校活动，增加交流技巧，但不要盲目地参加。
二年级为定向期:应考虑未来是否深造或就业，通过参加学生会或社团等组织，锻炼自己的能力，同时检验自己的知识技能;提高自己的责任感，主动性和受挫能力，并开始有选择地辅修其他专业的知识来填充自己。
三年级为冲刺期:临近毕业，目标应锁定在提高求职技能，收集公司信息，并确定自己是否要考研。要积极锻炼自己得到独立解决问题的能力和创造性;积极常识并加入校友网络，了解往年的求职情况;希望出国留学的学生，可多接触留学顾问，参与留学系列活动。
四年级为分化期:目标应锁定在工作申请及成功就业上。这时可先对前三年的准备做一个总结:首先检验自己已确立的职业目标是否明确，前三年的准备是否充分;然后开始毕业后工作的申请，积极参加招聘活动，在实践中检验自己的积累和准备;最后，预习或模拟面试。积极利用学校提供的条件，强化求职技巧，进行模拟面试等训练，尽可能地做出充分准备。
大学生进行职业生涯规划时，要自我进行发展定位，根据自己的能力，设计适合自己的目标，在长短不同时期要有个不同的计划，否则只是空想，不现实的。在设计过程中要以自己为主，不要自以为是，同时要参阅专家的意见，让设计切合实际，可操作性强，最好借助正规的专业机构。
总之，科学合理的职业生涯规划是每一个大学生就业的必要工作，也是每一个大学生职业生涯发展过程中的必然要求。我们每一个人都应该知道自己适合做什么，应该做什么，以及怎样实现自己的目标。
CAREER PLANNING
Authors： Tom Attwater
sources :THE FUTURIST November –December2005,www.wfs.org
1 Career planning
What comes to your mind when you think about career planning? Many people aren’t sure what career planning means. For our purposes we will define career planning as “A goal that you desire to achieve in a selected field or occupation with a well thought out plan to get you there.”
Why decide on a career goal? A career goal helps you focus and make decisions on what you want to do for a living. It directs you, motivates you and helps you to accomplish what you want. A career goal helps you focus and make decisions on what you want to do for a living. A career goal can be a specific job—such as a clerk or teacher—or a career goal can be a particular field you want to work in, such as transportation or education.
A career goal may help you discover your talent, skills and abilities and possibilities that you wouldn't have thought of. Many possibilities exist with any career you choose. Having a career goal can guide you to doing what you want to do in your life—rather than just aimlessly drifting from job to job. Once you choose a career, it would be to your advantage to think strategically about the steps you need to take to accomplish your goal. The future is unpredictable; however, you should still make career goals and plan the necessary steps to your goal.
2 Expectation and disappointments
With every goal there is an anticipated desired outcome. We call this an expectation. Our expectations help keep us
motivated. When we realize our goal, we often feel joy and satisfaction. All of us have expectations and disappointments. In the process in thinking about our goals, we have to be prepared to have disappointments.
Career planning is simply goal planning with the intention of setting goals for jobs and career.The world we live in works in certain ways. The more one knows how it works, the better one can achieve those goals by utilizing the processes that give you the advantage. Career planning is simply goal planning with the intention of setting goals for jobs and career.
In order to remain competitive you need to be as flexible as you can and continually increase your skills. Some things you can do are: go to school, take workshops or seminars, keep up with trade journals and talk to people who are knowledgeable in the field. Today, it’s almost mandatory for us to take some form of training all through our care keep up with the times.
When I talk about training or skill, I’m not just talking about things like organization and time management, although these are important. However, stress management, problem solving, risk taking, and overcoming procrastination, to name a few, are equally, if not more important, to getting to your goal.
3 Career planning is important
Let’s suppose you choose a field. Career planning is not planning for that field on a one-time only basis, but it’s a continuing process; in fact, you can call it a lifetime process. We are always learning and growing, and as we do, our
interests and needs also change. Career planning is not just making plans to obtain your “perfect” job or career, but to help you make the many adjustments there will be along the way as you learn about you and your world or work.