Charting a course leads to desirable destination

This paper describes, charting a course leads to desirable destination. Because of the major impact on society, members of the engineering profession should strive to achieve their highest level of success. This can be accomplished by the use of proven principles of career management. Career management starts by defining visions of personal and professional life. First step in career management is to develop a strategy by setting goals and identifying technical and nontechnical skill needs. Designing action plans to reach goals and develop new skills is also an important aspect of career management. A very important, and often overlooked, part of successful career management is to implement an action plan. The final step in successful career management is to document activities and periodically evaluate results. When results are less than desirable, the planning process needs to be revisited and appropriate changes made to accomplish life visions. As gain addition experience and the life vision may also expand or change. When it does, it needs to make appropriate revisions in our career plan