Benjamin Todd

If you have time, go and do that.

Ideally, keep investigating until your best guesses stop changing.

At this point, often what seems best is to simply pursue your list of next steps and then re-evaluate your plan after you have concrete options on the table.

We'll talk about how to get jobs in the next chapter.

Now is also a good time to consider applying to speak to our team one-on-one.

Just go to 80000hours.org slash speak hyphen with hyphen us.

They can help you check your plan, decide which next steps to prioritize, and start toward them.

Once you have concrete job offers on the table, you can use our career decision process to choose between them.

It's the same process for comparing longer-term paths, but it can also be applied to next steps.

You can find it in Appendix 4.

Finally, once you start your job, set a review point.

It could well be worth spending a whole weekend on career planning.

If you'd like to do that, we've created a planning worksheet covering all the key exercises from the guide so far.

You can find that at 80k.link slash ncp.

If you fill it out, you'll have a complete career plan.

Try getting a friend to do it with you for moral support and to discuss options.

The bottom line.

How to make your career plan.

Your career should move through three stages.

1.