Career Planning and

Development

BY:
MAMUN MUZTABA, MC, BIM

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 What is a career?

A career refers to the individual

sequence of attitudes and
behavior associated with work-
related experiences and activities
over the span of the person’s life.

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 What is a career?
Four different meanings can be applied to the concept of careers.

 First, careers have been described as advancement. That is, careers are described as a
sequence of promotions or upward moves in a company during the person’s work life.

 Second, careers have been described as a profession. This definition suggests that
careers occur only in certain occupations in which there is a clear pattern of
advancement. For example, doctors, professors, businesspersons, lawyers, and other
professionals have a path of career movement.

 Third, careers can be considered a lifelong sequence of jobs. A person’s career is the
series of jobs held during the course of that person’s life, regardless of occupation or
job level. According to this description, all persons have careers.

 Fourth, careers can be described as a lifelong sequence of role-related experiences.

Careers represent how persons experience the sequence of jobs and assignments in
their work history. This definition includes positions held and job moves as well as a
person’s feelings and attitudes about their jobs and their life.

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 Career Planning
Career planning is defined as “a deliberate process
of -
 becoming aware of self, opportunities,
constraints, choices, and consequences;

 identifying career related goals; and

 programming work, education, and related

developmental experiences to provide the
direction, timing, and sequence of steps to
attain a specific career goal.”mamunmuztaba.bim@gmail.com; 01716653626
 Why Career Management ?

Career management is the process through which

employees

• Become aware of their own interests, values, strengths,

and weaknesses.
• Obtain information about job opportunities within the
company.
• Identify career goals.
• Establish action plans to achieve career goals.

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 The Protean Career
Today’s careers are known as protean careers. A
protean career is based on self-direction with
the goal of psychological success in one’s work.
Protean employees take major responsibility for
managing their careers.
For example, an engineering employee may take a
sabbatical (time off, vacation) from his engineering
position to work at the United Way Agency for a year
in a management position. The purpose of this
assignment is to develop his managerial skills as well
as to enable him to personally evaluate whether he
likes managerial work more than engineering.
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Traditional Career versus Protean
Career

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Spectrum of Career Development
Activities

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 A Four-Stage Model
of Career Development

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 Model Of Career Development
Career development is the process by which employees
progress through a series of stages, each characterized
by a different set of developmental tasks, activities, and
relationships.
There are several career development models.
 The life-cycle models suggest that employees face certain
developmental tasks over the course of their careers and that
they move through distinct life or career stages.
 The organization-based models also suggest that careers
proceed through a series of stages, but these models propose
that career development involves employees’ learning to
perform certain activities. Each stage involves changes in
activities and relationships with peers and managers.
 The directional pattern model describes the form or shape
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Model Of Career Development

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The Career Management Process

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 The Career Management Process

• Self-assessment refers to the use of information by

employees to determine their career interests, values,
aptitudes, and behavioral tendencies.

• Reality check refers to the information employees receive

about how the company evaluates their skills and
knowledge and where they fit into the company’s plans
(e.g., potential promotion opportunities, lateral moves).

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 The Career Management Process

• In goal setting, employees develop short- and long-term

career objectives. These goals usually relate to desired
positions (e.g., to become sales manager within three
years), level of skill application (e.g., to use one’s
budgeting skills to improve the unit’s cash flow problems),
work setting (e.g., to move to corporate marketing within
two years), or skill acquisition (e.g., to learn how to use the
company’s human resource information system).

• In action planning, employees determine how they will

achieve their short- and long term career goals. Action
plans may involve enrolling in training courses and
seminars, conducting informational interviews, or
applying for job openings within the company.
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Self-Assessment Exercise
 Roles of Employees, Managers, Human Resource
Managers, and The Company In Career Management

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