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Lesson 12 Career Development

This document discusses career development and planning. It covers the different stages of a career, from exploration to decline. Career planning involves activities to achieve career goals and involves learning about oneself and different careers. It is important for both employee retention and organizational success by aligning individual and company goals. Effective career planning identifies individual needs and aspirations, analyzes opportunities, and creates action plans to bridge any gaps through development programs. Performance, exposure, networking, leveraging opportunities, and expanding one's abilities are also discussed as important aspects of career progress.

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Lesson 12 Career Development

This document discusses career development and planning. It covers the different stages of a career, from exploration to decline. Career planning involves activities to achieve career goals and involves learning about oneself and different careers. It is important for both employee retention and organizational success by aligning individual and company goals. Effective career planning identifies individual needs and aspirations, analyzes opportunities, and creates action plans to bridge any gaps through development programs. Performance, exposure, networking, leveraging opportunities, and expanding one's abilities are also discussed as important aspects of career progress.

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CAREER

DEVELOPMENT
 Progress or general course of
action of a person in some
profession.
 Specific jobs that a person
CAREER
performs, the kinds of
responsibilities and activities
that comprise those jobs,
movements and transitions
between jobs.
Exploration
Establishment
CAREER
Mid career
STAGES
Late Career
Decline
 Career planning consists
of activities and actions
CAREER that you take to achieve
PLANNING your individual career
goals.
 Purpose
 Personality
IT IS THE LIFE-
LONG PROCESS  Interests

A PERSON GOES  Skills


THROUGH TO  Talents
LEARN ABOUT  Develop a self- concept
HIMSELF SUCH
 Learn about careers and work
AS
situations
 Make a career choice, while
developing and coping social skills
 People leave an organisation
due to lack of career growth.
HOW  Deeper focus on an
IMPORTANT IS employee’s aims and
CAREER aspirations.
PLANNING?
 Degree of clarity
 Helps in identifying handicaps
& the blind spots to overcome.
 Significant motivator.
 Key retention tool
HOW
IMPORTANT IS  Critical human resource
CAREER strategy
PLANNING?
 High-level vision and goals
of company are clearly made
known to employees.
 Growth of an organisation is
HOW intrinsically linked with the
IMPORTANT IS growth of an individual.
CAREER
PLANNING?  Matching organization
vision & employees
aspirations is must.
 The basic purpose of such
an exercise is to help an
IDENTIFYING employee form a clear
INDIVIDUAL
view about what he
NEEDS AND
ASPIRATIONS should do to build his
career within the
company.
 Once career needs and
ANALYZING aspirations of employees
CAREER are known, the organization
OPPORTUNITIES has to provide career paths
for each position.
 Identify the potential of
employees and then
undertake career
ALIGNING NEEDS development programmers
AND
OPPORTUNITIES with a view to align
employee needs and
organizational
opportunities.
 The matching process
would uncover gaps.
ACTION PLANS These need to be bridged
AND PERIODIC through individual career
REVIEW development efforts and
organization supported
efforts from time to time.
 A formal approach used by
the firms to ensure that
people with proper
CAREER qualifications and
DEVELOPMENT experience are available
when needed.
 Career development benefits
both employees as well as
organizations.
 Career progress rests
largely on performance. If
the performance is sub-
PERFORMANCE
standard, even modest
career goals cannot be
achieved.
 Career development
comes through exposure,
which implies becoming
EXPOSURE known by those who
decide promotions,
transfers and other career
opportunities.
 Networking implies
professional and personal
NETWORKING contacts that would help
in striking good deals
outside.
 Resigning to further one’s
career with another
employer is known as
leveraging . When the
LEVERAGING
option is irresistible, the
only option left is to
resign from the current
position
 Professionals and recent
college graduates
generally jump jobs
LOYALTY TO frequently when they start
CAREER their career. To overcome
this problem companies
have come out with
lucrative, innovative
compensation packages
 Employees who are career
conscious must prepare
themselves for future
EXPAND
opportunities that may
ABILITY
come their way internally
or externally by taking a
series of proactive steps.

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