Career planing is important for successful and strong career path.

First important step in career planning is: Understanding your personality and strengths. Assess your true abilities, interest and personality either yourself or by visiting a career-counselling centre.

For example, chances of an introvert person to become a successful salesperson are less. With the same logic, if a person does like to play with numbers or is not good at number crunching may not be suitable for a finance job.

Next, Based on your interests make a primary list of careers. See to it that these careers are in sync with your personality and abilities.

Now explore all the careers in your primary list. Get to know more about the job profiles, requirements, prospects, how to develop your career, a typical day in the life of the professional among others.

Once you're done with the above, pick the one that suits you the most.

Next three steps focus on learning and preparing to achieve your goals.
 
To summarize: Follow these 7 steps outlined in the career wheel to find out what work profiles suite you best, set your goals accordingly and plan to achieve them.
And yeah use our forums and/or  contact our mentors for any help you need in the pursuit of success.