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