CAREER PLANNING

Organization of talk…..
What is career planning?

Glimpse of Career Planning Process

John Holland’ Theory of Career Choice

Your Career Personality

 Job versus Career
Job-
“What can I do
now to make
money?”
Career-chosen
profession for your
life. Requires a
willingness to get the
training needed to
build your skills

for the future.

It is a "lifelong journey" that generally bring you a

sense of achievement or accomplishment
You career is something that you genuinely love
doing.
• A job can be full or
part-time and
generally thought
to just be
something to
generate spending
money, for that first
car or pay bills.

• Not thought of to be
long term or
require specific
training.
 CAREER
• A career is a chosen
pursuit; a profession
or occupation.
• A career is generally
long term and requires
specific training.
• Career requires an
education or training
and takes time to
achieve the goal.
 What is career planning?
Career planning
consist of activities
and actions
that you take to
achieve your
individual career
goals.
 Deeper Insight ……….
It is the life long-process a person goes
through to learn about himself such as…….
-purpose
-personality
-interests
-skills
-talents
Career Planning a Life-Long Process

Step 1
Who am I? What are my
interest, skills, values and
personality style?
Step 2
Step 4 What do I want?
What is my plan to What are my
get my goal? options?

Step 3
How do I get there?
What am I willing to
do?
Importance of Career Planning
 They have to be square pegs in square
holes or round pegs in round holes……….
which means
putting profitable
use of their talents,
skills and abilities
towards making
them assets in the
society they live
 To be square pegs in round holes or
round pegs in square holes means……..

to be misfits & liabilities

to society, human and
material resources will
go to waste when
individuals are placed
in work situations that
they have not prepared
themselves for.
“Do what you love,
when you love your
work, you become
the best worker in
the world.”
--Uri Geller