Career Design
Design your future—one step at a time.
This toolkit includes worksheets, guides, and activities designed to help you better understand yourself and explore meaningful career possibilities. While you can complete the resources in any order, we recommend working through them in the sequence below to get the most out of the experience. Each activity builds on the previous one, helping you move from curiosity to greater clarity about your future.
Career Design Cycle: Start here to understand the Design Your Future framework. You’ll learn how career development is an ongoing process of exploring possibilities, building skills, gaining experience, and creating opportunities.
Career Design Cycle Checklist: Use this checklist as your roadmap through the Career Design Cycle. It provides practical actions you can take during each stage of your career journey and can help you track your progress over time.
Mind Mapping Your Interests: Explore the activities, topics, and experiences that naturally capture your attention. This exercise helps you identify patterns in your interests and generate ideas for future career exploration.
Values Exploration: Identify the values that matter most to you and consider how they influence your decisions. Understanding your values can help you evaluate future opportunities and choose paths that align with what is most meaningful to you.
Future Pathways Worksheet: Bring everything together by designing multiple possible futures. Rather than choosing one “perfect” plan, you’ll imagine several meaningful directions and identify small experiments that help you learn which paths fit you best.