Career Planning

By : Dr. Vilas Kulkarni

• Introduction
• Objectives of Career Planning
• Process of Career Planning
• Importance of Career Planning
 Introduction
• It is one of the type of advance planning
initiated by HR department.
• It includes all the steps not only to perform
existing job systematically, but also to handle
future task in more scientific manner.
• It is a development activity planned by
management through HR department to
perform present as well as future job with more
perfection.
 Concept of Career Planning
• In general terms Career Planning means
progress in life in a particular organization in
more professional manner.
• As an individual point of view : Career
planning is a systematic process by which an
individual selects his career goals & a path to
achieve his goal in a systematic manner.
• As organizational point of view :It involves
identification of an individual properly by
SWOT analysis and charting out the career
path to achieve an organizational goal in most
scientific manner.
 Differences
• The difference between Succession planning
and career planning :
• Succession planning : It means fulfillment of
vacancies through deserving candidate/
employees in the absence of a person or when
the position is vacant. It is also called as filling
of blank space/gap temporarily by an
individual person having requisite skill,
potentials and ability.
• Career Planning : It is a systematic planning of
management which is communicated to an
individual that, up to which level he/she can
reach by his/her skill potential and ability
permanently in same organization.
 Examples of Career Planning
• US– SS—SK—HSK—SHIFT SUPERVIZOR—SHIFT
I/C—MANAGER In (12 years ).
• Jr. Clerk –Sr. Clerk—Assistant—Sectional Officer
—Department Head in (15 years).
• Mgt Trainee—Asst. Manager—Manager—GM—
VP—Director– MD. In ( 18 years ).
• Lecturer– Sr. Lecturer—Asst. Professor—
Professor—Reader–HOD-- Dean– Vice chancellor
in (21 years )
 Importance of Career Planning
• Advantages : It helps the management to know
the potential level of an individual so that his
abilities are spotted out well in advance.
• It guides the management to provide training
to the capable employees in advance.
• It helps to management to design salary policy,
gradation policy, promotion policy
systematically.
• It also guides the employees to know well in
advance up to what level he can progress in
same organization with stipulated period of his
service.
• It creates healthy competitions among the
employees and they are able to achieve their
goals easily.
• It also helps management to achieve better
results.
 Disadvantages
• It sometime creates frustrations among the
employees due to their own over expectations
from management.
• It increases attrition rates if no scientific
planning is initiated by management.
• Management’s expects more results from
their employees in proportion to Career
Planning.
 Conclusion
• Thus in all the professional organizations
career planning is considered as a tool of
motivation which motivates both
management as well as employees to achieve
their own preset objectives from each others.
• It also develops better industrial relations and
harmony within the same establishment.