All Career Journals should:
- Analyse your current situation
- Keep track of your daily career-related achievements and progress
- Establish daily or weekly career-related goals or tasks
- Express your reactions to success and failures
- Create and Develop action plans to meet goals/tasks
- Brainstorm about your future career goals
- Make checklists
- Prepare a SWOT (strengths-weakness-opportunities-threats) analysis
- Record key information
- Develop your covering letter and/or CV
- Research new job opportunities.
- help practice job interview questions – and answers
- Gather salary information
- Develop your Skills
- Develop plans for achieving promotions
- Prepare for job performance reviews/salary reviews
- Market yourself within the company