The seven steps to building your career plan are: 1. Determine your career stage; 2. Define your vision; 3. Clarify the next decision and generate ideas for next steps; 4. Narrow down the most promising next steps using a decision process; 5. Identify plan A, plan B, and plan Z; 6. Address key uncertainties about your plan; 7. Resolve key uncertainties by investigating until your best guesses stop changing.