Career Development Plan
Most of this plan already exists — you built it over the last nine weeks. This isn't a blank page; it's an assembly job. Pull from your Wants & Needs List, your Career Capital Audit, your Value Proposition, your Fit Evaluation, and your Story Bank. Where a section names a source document, open it and copy the best of what's there. Budget 60–90 minutes for the first pass. Ghost text shows you what "good" looks like — overwrite it with your own.
Every section has at least one honest entry, your Opportunity Filter has your top five criteria in it, and your first review date is on your calendar. Complete beats perfect — you'll be back.
Where I Am
Your current position, stated like a founder describing the business — no modesty, no inflation.
What This Job Is For
Every job is a trade. You give time, attention, and energy; the job pays you back — and money is only one of the currencies. Owners name the trade out loud. This section is the honest answer to: why this job, right now, in my larger career? Naming it isn't disloyalty — it's clarity. And naming a rough term converts vague restlessness later into a plan now.
Not a countdown — a review horizon. You'll re-decide at every review, with better information.
The Next-Next
Skip a stone. Where does the road point after the job that comes after this one? You don't need a title — a direction is enough. The next-next question is what makes your current job legible: it tells you what to collect while you're here.
Horizons
Backward design, pointed at the career instead of the search. Small and concrete beats grand and vague — "visible lead on one meaningful project by month 12" is a better goal than "become a director."
Growth Edges
Two or three development areas, named like an engineer names a spec gap — no shame, just scope. Development happens inside jobs, not only between them. Every edge gets one concrete move and one very next smallest action, because an edge without an action is just a worry with better vocabulary.
The Opportunity Filter
Opportunities will find you now — recruiter messages, internal postings, a friend's startup. Owners don't evaluate from scratch every time; they run the opportunity through a standing filter. Yours already exists: it's your Wants & Needs list, upgraded by everything the search taught you.
Review Rhythm
A plan that's never reopened is a form you filled out once. Set the cadence now, while the momentum is real. (Your Sustainability System carries the same dates — one calendar, not two.)
Read it. Is the trade holding? Anything fire in the Filter lately? Done.
Horizons, edges, term — updated with a year of better information.