Career Planning

• Process of identifying and accomplishing the

employees' career objectives throughout a
systematic way of skill identification,
assessment and development.
 Career Planning
• Career planning is a set of policies and practices
an organization uses to provide for its human
resources and development (J.A sonnenfeld).
• Career planning is the deliberate process through
which someone becomes aware of personal
skills, interest, knowledge, motivation and other
characteristics and establishes actions plans to
attain specific goals. (Gary Dessler)
 Career Planning
• The purpose of writing a career statement is
to give the professional a clear direction for
the future.
• A career statement is a creation of your career
vision for inspiring and motivating yourself.
 Aim of career Planning
• It helps employees to achieve career
progression within the organization.
• Employees take interest in job?.
• It helps organization to attract the skilled labor
 Features of Career Planning
• It is ongoing process by which an employee
• Identifies the needs and also the methods to fulfill those
needs on regular basis.
• It aims at matching the individual’s career goals with
opportunities available.
• Achieving employee’s progression and organizational
efficiency
• Collective responsibility of both (individual/org),
• Environmental conditions. (change in demand, supply of
labor, characteristics of labor, technology, competitive
conditions, Mkt strategies )
 Objectives of Career Planning
• Career planning facilitates the employees to
develop not only their career goals but also
the ways to achieve these goals.
• It helps individuals to remain competitive in
the labor market
• It acts as the basis or standard for tracing the
• Career progression throughout his worklife.
• Prepare people for critical positions
 Objectives of Career Planning
• Through career planning, an org can attract and retain
it’s best people for a relatively longer period of time.
• As an effective technique by org, to limit the
Labor turnover , better employee efficiency an
commitment.
It provides an opportunity for the organization to assess
the strength and weakness and also area for
development for employees for the purpose of career
planning and development.
It forms basis for employees training and development
 2 Perspectives of career
• Objective Past positions held by an individual
• Subjective It looks at the career of the
individual position l from the perspective of
the future, he is likely to hold.
 2 roles Organizations / individual
• Career planning is the collective responsibility
of the organization and the concerned
individual.
 Evaluation process
• Aspects
• work performance and efficiency.
• selfworth
• personality
• Lifestyle
• Career goals
 One Time activity?
• It is a continuous process of of assessing the
employees performance and potential and
throughout their career fulfilling their
requirement on a regular basis.
 Features of Career Planning
• Career Planning normally follows a process
with ….
• Individual.
• Work upwards
• Organizational intervention
 career
• Sequence of upward movements made by
individuals.
 Career Path
• The systematic and deliberate advancement
made by an individual in his career in the
entire worklife.
 Career system
• The creation of an integrated employees
development system for supporting the career
aspiration of the employees.