Your Path to a Health Career

	How Do You Plan for a Career?

• Take yourself seriously and plan your own future. What would you really like to do in heatlh care?  Picture yourself doing it.  Do you like what you see?
• Become an expert on health careers. Have you read career booklets?  Have you considered ALL possibilities?  Research health careers and discover a new and exciting career.
• Become an expert on yourself. Have you talked to a health science education teacher or school counselor?  Have you taken an interest inventory?  The SAT?  The ACT?  WorkKeys?  If you haven't, why not?
• Begin now to prepare for your career. What kind of education and training will you need? a one-year, two-year, four-year program?  graduate school?  What are the admission requirements? What high school courses does the college require? Does your health science teacher provide job shadowing, clinical internships, or cooperative education to help you explore health careers?  Are these jobs related to your career choice?
• Take charge of making decisions for your own life and career. Assess your own ideas about what is the best health care career for you.  You know best what your abilities and interests are.  Your health science teacher, math teacher, English teacher and school counselor will help you explore your options.
• Set your own goals and learn how to work for them. Keep a strong image in your mind of what these goals are.  Work toward your goals with the idea of success in your mind.  Many people are successful and happy in challenging and interesting health careers.  You can be too!

• Prepare your program of study using the dual path and include courses in health science education.
• Become active in Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA).
• Remember, no one person has all the answers, so seek a variety of health care professionals to assist you.
• Identify potential mentoring relationships with health care professionals.
• Develop an electronic portfolio of school, community and other health care and HOSA activities.