Career Planning

What is Career?

Career – Chosen Profession for your life. Requires a

willingness to get the training needed to build your
skills for the future.
A career is the work a person does. It is the sequence of
jobs that an individual has held throughout his or her
working life including, job positions, job duties,
decisions and subjective interpretations about work-
related events.
 What is Career Planning?

“Career planning consists of

activities and actions that you
take to achieve your individual
career goals”
Components of Career Planning
1. Self-analysis
The initial stage is to perform a self-analysis on the skill set.This
will determine the type of career options that are suitable to
pursue in the future. Personal preferences, strengths,
knowledge, and abilities are needed to be tested.

2. Analysis of an opportunity
After deciding upon the career that an individual wants to
follow. The next would be to analyze the available opportunities
in the job market
3. The setting of a goal
The most significant part of short or long term career planning is
the setup of a goal. It helps in the job search as well as career
opportunities.

4. Generation of a strategy and employing an action plan

After setting up goals that individual aims to achieve. He needs to
decide on the path that will lead him to implement the plan
successfully. This also involves the acquirement of the necessary
resources and skills to fulfill the set goals.
 Steps of Career Planning

1. Self-exploration and assessment

2. Research about the career
3. Exploration and experimentation
4. Career selection and Decision making
5. End planning and action
6. The search for jobs and acceptance
 Need for Career Planning

Career Planning is necessary due to the following reasons:

 To attract competent persons and to retain them in the organization.

 To provide suitable promotional opportunities.
 To enable the employees to develop and take them ready to meet the
future challenges.
 To increase the utilization of managerial reserves within an
organization.
 To correct employee placement.
 To reduce employee dissatisfaction and turnover.
 To improve motivation and morale.
 Career Development

Career development is essential to implement career plan. Career

development consists of personal improvements undertaken by
the individual employee, training, development and educational
programmes provided by the organization and various institutes.
The most important aspect of career development is that every
employee must accept his/her responsibility for development.
Various career development actions prove useful if an employee is
committed to career development.
 Process of Career Planning & Development

The following are the steps in Career Planning and Development:

 Analysis of individual skills, knowledge, abilities, aptitudes etc.
 Analysis of career opportunities both within and outside the
organization.
 Analysis of career demands on the incumbent in terms of skills,
knowledge, abilities, aptitude etc., and in terms of qualifications,
experience and training received etc.
 Relating specific jobs to different career opportunities.
 Establishing realistic goals both short-term and long-term.
 Formulating career strategy covering areas of change and
adjustment.
 Preparing and implementing action plan including acquiring
resources for achieving goals.
Advantages of Career Planning and
Development

 The process of career planning helps the individual to have the knowledge of
various career opportunities, his priorities etc.
 This knowledge helps him select the career that is suitable to his life styles,
preferences, family environment, scope for self-development etc.
 It helps the organization identify internal employees who can be promoted.
 Internal promotions, upgradation and transfers motivate the employees, boost
up their morale and also result in increased job satisfaction.
 Increased job satisfaction enhances employee commitment and creates a sense
of belongingness and loyalty to the organization.
 Employee will await his turn of promotion rather than changing to another
organization. This will lower employee turnover.
 It improves employee’s performance on the job by taping their potential abilities
and further employee turnover.
 It satisfies employee esteem needs.
 Career Planning is NOT…

 Leaving the decision to chance

 Getting information and never deciding
 Going along with someone else’s plans
 It’s OUR future. WE need to make our career
decision!!
Thank You!