Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Career Development
1. The importance of careers
2. Career anchors
3. Career planning
4. Career stages
The Importance of Careers
• For organizations: Helps align staffing with strategy
• For employees: A source of identification and a factor in quality of life
Career Anchors
1. Technical anchor
2. Managerial anchor
3. Security & stability anchor
4. Autonomy anchor
5. Entrepreneurial anchor
Career Planning
• Employee responsibility:
1. Self-assessment,
2. Identify and analyze career options;
3. Decide and develop career objectives and needs;
4. Communicate career preferences to your manager;
5. Map out a plan with your manager.
• Management responsibilities:
• New career paths: More webbed than straight, Early & delayed retirement
Career Stages
• Exploration stage
• Establishment stage
• Maintenance stage
• Late career stage
Exploration Stage
• Task Needs:
1. Experiencing varied job tasks
2. Self-assessment
3. Job choice
• Social-emotional needs
1. Occupational self-image
2. Settling down
Establishment Stage
• Task needs
1. Learn the ropes
2. Get challenging jobs
3. Increase competence
4. Be innovative
• Emotional needs
1. Deal with competition, failure, conflicts
2. Develop autonomy
Establishment Stage
• Task needs
1. Learn the ropes
2. Get challenging jobs
3. Increase competence
4. Be innovative
• Emotional needs
1. Deal with competition, failure, conflicts
2. Develop autonomy
Maintenance Stage
• Task needs
1. Technical updating
2. Coaching skills
3. Continue to rotate into new areas
4. Develop broad view of career
• Social-emotional needs
1. Express midlife feelings
2. Rethink work, family
Late Career Stage
• Task needs
1. Remain productive
2. Plan for retirement
3. Shift role from power to guidance
4. Identify successors
5. Develop outside interests
• Social emotional needs
1. Re-envision work
2. Develop outside identity
Backwards & Forwards
• Summing up
1. Career anchors
2. Changing nature of careers
3. Strategic importance of career planning
4. Stages or career progression
• Looking ahead
1. Strategies for employees to self-manage careers
2. Variations in career planning for men and women
3. Career planning and human resource planning