Steps/ Process in Career Planning

Career Planning involves different activities for successful organisation

cover important following steps:-

1. Preparing Personal Skills Inventories:- The first step is to prepare

personal skills

inventories, which contains data or employees skill and career goals. In addition
there are required data banks, which provide the following information.- The
organisation structure and the persons managing different positions in the
organisation their age, education, experience, goals, authority and responsibility.

The performance record and ratings, interpersonal abilities of the

employees.

- Their preferred location, designs and constraints.

- Future impression of manpower for expansion or diversification of the

company

or for natural

- wastages like death, disability, retirement, discharge and dismissal,

resignation

etc.

In most of the organizations such information is computerized periodically

revise

and updated. After preparation of personal skills inventories & additional

data, it is

necessary to develop career path for employees.

2. Developing Career Paths:Career Paths are logical mapping out of jobs, which

represent a potential progression that an employee may follow over time.

Such mapping of job

progression are done in the firm of career ladders by clubbing together

similar lives of

occupations in job families. Job families are group of homogeneous jobs

i.e. jobs with similar

characters.

For example- Model of career paths for HR Manager

3. Put the Right Man at the Right Place:

- The third step in career planning process is to identify suitable employees who
have the ability, potential, willingness to take up higher responsibilities and riseup the organisation ladder for this most of the organizations have performance
appraisal and merit rating system. This system enables
organizations to compare the performance measures of different individual in
terms of job requirement and helps in identifying training requirement, selecting
for promotions providing financial rewards etc.
Two main steps:- Impart Training
- Review & Counseling
Conclusion:- Career Planning & development is a holistic approach for objective
description
of the career progression path for all levels of employees in an organisations.