Career planning is a process of continuous and systematic planning for career and even life. A complete career planning includes three elements: career orientation, goal setting and channel design.

Career planning is also called "career planning". In academic circles, people also like to call it "career planning". In some fields, some people like to call it "life planning", but they all express the same content.

Career design, also known as career design, refers to the combination of individuals and organizations. On the basis of measuring, analyzing and summarizing the subjective and objective conditions of a person's career, they comprehensively analyze and weigh their own interests, hobbies, abilities and characteristics, combine the characteristics of the times, determine their best career goals according to their career tendencies, and make effective arrangements for achieving this goal.

The origin of career planning:

Career planning originated in America 1908. Frank Parsons, known as the "father of career guidance", set up the world's first career counseling agency-Boston Local Employment Bureau to solve the problem of a large number of young people's unemployment, and put forward the concept of "career counseling" for the first time. Since then, vocational guidance has been systematized.

In 1950s and 1960s, Schuber and others put forward the concept of "career", so career planning is no longer limited to the level of career guidance.