Provide a career plan appropriate to the situation and adult development status. Use the career development model and explain why you have chosen the suggested strategies. Please write in a summary format.
For personal and family reasons Chris relocated to Birmingham from Chicago where she had held a number of general management positions with well-established financial services companies. As a business professional she assumed it would be fairly straightforward to find an opening. But after three months’ concerted effort she was getting nowhere. Chris decided to seek out a professional career consultant to help her in the job search.
The issues:
• She lacked local knowledge and had a very thin network
• She was unaware of recruiting methods in Birmingham
• The culture of a southern city was different than Chicago’s