GUID 509

CAREER DEVELOPMENT
AND COUNSELING
DIFFERENT APPROACHES
TO CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
OBJECTIVES :
• Distinguish the different
approaches to career
development
• Identify the importance or
benefit of the different
approaches to career
development
1. A Realistic Job Preview
(RJP) is a recruiting tool used
to communicate both the
good and bad aspects of a job.
Benefits of a realistic
job preview
1. increasing self-
selection,
2. an improved
candidate experience,
3. more commitment
to the organization
4. higher job
satisfaction and
performance
5. lower attrition.
2. Preparation of career path
A career path is a list of steps
to take in your professional
life for progressing into
different or more advanced
roles at work. It's a series of
jobs and experiences that
help employees reach their
ultimate career objectives
Benefits of a having a
career plan
 1. Knowledge
.
2. Self awareness
3. Self development
4. Career contentment
5. Visibility
6. Retirement plan
(3) challenging assignment
A challenging task or job
requires great effort and
determination.
 Benefits of a
challenging career /
assignment
1.It promotes career growth.
2.You get to network with
new people.
3.Allows you to engage in new
tasks and responsibilities.
4.It opens up an opportunity
for ongoing learning.
4. job rotation
Job rotation is the systematic
movement of employees from one
job to another within the
organization to achieve various
human resources objectives such
as orienting new employees,
training employees, enhancing
career development, and
preventing job boredom or
burnout.
BENEFITS OF JOB
RORATION
1.Improved employee knowledge of
company operations
2.Reduced boredom among employees
3. Increased innovation from employees
4.Identified employee interests and skills
in new areas
5.Reduced strain on employees physically
6.Increased productivity
7.Identified the best possible employee
for a position through trial
8.Increased opportunities for employees
9.Reduced turnover among employees
5.performance feedback
Performance feedback is a
communications process.
It should be ongoing
meaning as adjustments
are made based on the
information exchanged
between manager and
 Importance of
Performance Feedback
1. Improved performance
at all levels
2. Transferred ownership
of professional
development
3. Diffused office conflicts
before they happen
4. Increased employee
engagement
 5. Giving your people
something they actually
want
6. career
consulting/counseling
Career Counseling is a
process that will help you
to know and understand
yourself and the world of
work in order to make
career, educational, and
BENEFITS OF CAREER
COUNSELING
1. Explore their interests,
values, and skills:
 2. Understand the
relationship between their
education and career
goals:
3.Make informed decisions
about their future:
4.Develop strategies for
achieving their goals:
5.Navigate the job market:
6.Manage career
transitions:
7.Overcome obstacles to
career success:
8.Build a satisfying and
successful career:
7. career development
workshop
It is a vocational guidance
intervention consisting of
a study group in which
occupational opportunities
and requirements are
discussed and explored.
 Importance of career
development workshop
1.Gain and enhance skills
2. Excel in current roles
3. Navigate through
organizational processes
4. Acquire experience
Help you identify the factors
influencing your career
development, and help you
assess your interests,
abilities, and values. Help you
locate resources and sources
of career information. Help
you to determine next steps
and develop a plan to achieve
your goals.
Provides career goals and paths: It is needed to supply career
goals and career paths to a person. It provides clear future
directions in terms of career.
Develop competencies: It motivates and encourages an
employee to develop competencies for higher-level jobs. The
competencies are often conceptual, interpersonal, and
technical.
Creativity: It is needed to extend employee creativity. it's
needed for innovation. It is often caused entrepreneurship
within the organization.
Employee retention: It is needed for the retention of qualified
employees within the long term. this is often needed to
decrease costs of recruitment, selection, and training.
Motivation: It motivates people for higher performance.
Upward movement within the organization is predicated on