Career Development Awareness

Presented to: Prof. Gamal A. Aziz

By: Maha Mahgoub
Career Development

consists of the following components:

1. Career planning
2. Career development
3. Career management

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Career definitions:
Career Planning

The career planning process involves:

self-assessment

identifying and exploring career options

setting goals

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Career definitions:

Career Development

is a process where staff initiate action to develop

the skills, knowledge and experience to prepare

for a future position

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 Career definitions

Career Management:

Career management is concerned with

aligning the staff member’s career needs with
the Organizations workforce needs and
providing supervisor.

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 Career choices and direction
• The 5 Career Stages

• Stage (1) Growth Stage:

• The early years (4 to 13 years old)

• It is a time when the individual first becomes aware of

the future.

• People start to find ways to develop competencies

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 Career Stages

• Stage (2) Exploration:

• From the early teens to mid-twenties
• specify and implement an
occupational choice
• Different roles are tried

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 Career Stages

• Stage (3) Establishment:

• In the mid-twenties through mid-forties
• efforts are made to secure a long-term
place in the chosen career
• Young adulthood tends to be a time
for stabilizing, and moving up

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 Career Stages
• Stage (4) Maintenance :
• in the mid-forties to mid-sixties efforts
• It ‘s characterized by constancy
• 1) Holding on:
• Stagnating or plateauing or
• 2) Keeping up
• Updating or enriching

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 Career Stages
• Stage (5) Disengagement :
• In The mid-sixties
• It’s typically marked by decelerating
from formal employment to finding
new roles with a view to retirement

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 Career Stages

• Stage (5) Maintenance :

• In the mid-twenties through mid-forties
• efforts are made to secure a long-term
place in the chosen career
• Young adulthood tends to be a time
for stabilizing, and moving up

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Personal Reflection
What have been the
critical decision points
that have influenced
your career so far?

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Recognise the need for career
planning

‘Would you please tell me which

way I ought to go from here?’
asked Alice.
‘That depends on where you want to
get to,’ answered the cat.

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 CAREER PLANNING PROCESS
&
WHAT THE EMPLOYERS LOOK FOR?

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 CAREER PLANNING PROCESS

 The Career planning encourages individuals to

explore and gather information which enables them
to gain competencies, make decisions, set goals
and take actions.
 Each individual varies in their progress through
each of these stages for many reasons. Some
advance rapidly through each or all of the stages
while others progress more slowly.

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Steps in Career Planning Process
1. A Starting Point – Who are you?
2. Identify careers related to interest, abilities and
preferences
3. Learn more about these specific careers
4. Narrow your choices to a few careers for continued
exploration
5. Get the right training and preparation for your career
6. Begin the job search and start your career

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 What Employers look for?

Communication Skills

Personality Development

Knowledge and Skill sets

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Communication Skills

Communication is basically conveying

effectively what we feel, think, want or
need.
Good Communication means letting the
other person know what you feel in a
manner that is not hurtful

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Communication Skills emphasis on
the following:
• The Art of listening
• The Art of Choosing a topic
• The Art of Body Communication

• When we meet someone face –to–face, 93% of how

you are judged is based on non-verbal data, only 7%
is influenced by Maha
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words that you speak.
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 Team Work
A Team means a people of different
temperaments, different tolerance levels
and different skills.
Members of a team should keep on
contributing to a team’s efforts.

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 Time Management
• It is a way of prioritizing our goals,
they are activities that affect long term
results

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 Curriculum Vitae
• Think of your CV as a promotional brochure
about you

• A good CV predicts how you might perform

in that desire future job.
• So impress with a good CV.
• The purpose of a CV is to disclose your
accomplishments and qualifications to a
potential employer.
• If the employer likes what she / he sees,
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 Tips for writing a CV
• Be Innovative!
• Personal Details
• Education
• Work Experience
• Interests
• Skills
• References
• Length
• Style
• Skills based
• Presentation
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 Covering Letters

• A Covering letter is required for

reaching the CV to the person directly
involved with handling the applications
for jobs.

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Career Path

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 Assessment
Research

Step 1 Step 2
- Learn about your self, your - Learn as much as you can
values, your interests, and about a variety of careers by
your abilities. using the work and
Employment section.
- Talk to your careers
counselor about a variety of - Investigate what’s available
tests to give you information and what preparation is
about yourself. needed.

• Use Career Assessment Tests

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 Career Education /
Development plan
Training

Step 4
Step 3
- Investigate options for
- Develop personal and career education/ training.
objectives.
- Enroll in and complete
necessary training.

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 Career / Life
Apply for Jobs
Planning

Step 5 Step 6

- Learn the skills to seek and - Review periodically where

keep a job. you are and where you want
to be.

- Launch a search for your

dream career. - Make changes as needed.

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 Self Exploration

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INTRODUCTION

The aims of Career Self Assessment tests are to:

Help you discover your career interests,

Help you identify employment opportunities,

Get you as close to your dream job as
possible.

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Career Self Assessment tests

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Step 1

• Research & Decide:

Go to your local library and/or online and

review career tests before deciding which
self-assessment suits you.

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Step 2
• Determine your goals in taking a
career assessment test.
• Your goals are different if you're a first
time job seeker vs. an adult seeking
that dream job.

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Step 3
• Identify goals

Choose the career assessment that's

right for you. There are varieties and
not all will suit your style or your goals.

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Step 4

• Take the test alone without the aid or

advice of others
• If you're taking the test online, at
home, choose a quiet place to avoid
interruptions.
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Step 5
• Understand the test

 Read the instructions

thoroughly to understand its
meaning.
 If you don't read the
instructions, your answer
may likely come out
distorted.
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Step 6
• Answer all questions truthfully; honest
answers means that you'll receive an
accurate report that generates more jobs for
you to consider.
• You will discover many different types of jobs
for which you're suited.
• For instance, an accountant may discover
that she's an ideal candidate to work in
advertising, web design, or commercial art.

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Step 7
• Relax

 Keep a positive attitude when

taking the test.
 Enjoy taking the career
assessment, because it will help
create an effective job search
campaign.

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Stop 8
• Don't agonize
 Answer questions quickly and
without sacrificing honesty;
whether fresh from college or
on your second career
 the assessment test is a tool
to help you find a better job or
your dream job.
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Step 9
• Don't look for the "right answer" or the
one that you think someone might
give. Write your own answer.

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Step 10
• Trust your first answer

 Don't erase your answers;

once you've written an
answer keep it.
 Quick answers often
originate from the
subconscious, without the
aid of your sensor.
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 Tips & Warnings

• Get a Career Self-Assessment test

before graduations.

• Get a Career Self-Assessment test

after college

• Take a test before changing jobs

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 SWOT Matrix
• A SWOT matrix is a framework for
analyzing your strengths and weaknesses
as well as the opportunities and threats that
you face.
• This helps you to :
• Focus on your strengths,
• Minimize your weaknesses,
• Take the greatest possible advantage of
opportunities available to you.

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 SOWT Analysis Model
• Strengths
– I'm very creative. I often
impressing clients with a new
perspective on their brands.
– I communicate well with my clients
and team.
– I have the ability to ask key
questions to find just the right
marketing angle.
– I'm completely committed to the
success of a client's brand.
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• Weaknesses
– I have a strong, compulsive
need to do things quickly and
remove them from my "to do"
list, and sometimes the quality
of my work suffers as a result.
– This same need to get things
done also causes me stress
when I have too many tasks.
– I get nervous when presenting
ideas to clients, and this fear
of public speaking often takes
the passion out of my
presentations.
 SOWT Analysis Model
• Opportunities • Threats

– One of our major competitors has – Ahmed, one of my colleagues, is a

developed a reputation for treating
their smaller clients poorly.
– I'm attending a major marketing
conference next month. This will
allow for strategic networking, and
also offer some great training
seminars.
– Our art director will go on maternity
leave soon. Covering her duties
while she's away would be a great
career development opportunity for
me.
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much stronger speaker than I am,
and he's competing with me for the
art director position.
– Due to recent staff shortages, I'm
often overworked, and this negatively
impacts my creativity.
– The current economic climate has
resulted in slow growth for the
marketing industry. Many firms have
laid off staff members, and our
company is considering further
cutbacks.
 Sustaining motivation
• Who can give you the support you need?
• Remain positive
• Reward yourself for
accomplishments

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6 steps to finding your dream job

1. Decide what you want

2. Do your background research
3. Create your c.v or resume and cover
letter
4. Develop your job search strategy and
apply for jobs
5. Prepare for interviews
6. Review your progress
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How do you research
careers?
• Be creative
• Read books, magazines and
newspaper articles related to
areas of interest
• Check out websites
• Talk to people who are already
doing the jobs you are
interested in
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 Self Assessment
Useful web sites and computer programs:
16 Personality Types
www.16types.com
Information about the MBTI.
Career Explorer
http://www.careerexplorer.net/aptitude.asp
Provides a free sample career aptitude test.
The Career Key
http://www.careerkey.org/
Free service to help with career choices and career
planning. Based upon the 6 personality/environment types.
developed by Dr. John Holland ( RAISEC - Realistic,
Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional).

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Self Assessment
Useful web sites and computer programs:
OZJAC database
Provides information on career planning with course links to different
jobs, industries and Training (available at Riverina Regional Library, Wagga
Wagga and Young TAFE Campus library). See also The Job Guide
(http://jobguide.dest.gov.au) published by the Department of Education,
Science & Training that lists around 1,500 occupations and specialisations.
Self-Directed Search
http://www.self-directed-search.com
The SDS takes 15 minutes and costs US$9.95 which will provide
you with a personalised interpretative report with a list of
possible career options and suggestions to assist with education
and career planning. It was developed by Dr. John Holland and
is based upon the 6 different RAISEC types.

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SOURCES
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