CAREERS AND CAREER MANAGEMENT

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Presented By : Pooja Prerna Rashmi

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What Is 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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From the companys perspective, the failure to motivate employees to plan their careers can result in: a shortage of employees to fill open positions lower employee commitment inappropriate use of monies allocated for training and development programs
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Why Is Career Management Important?

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Why Is Career Management Important?

From the employees perspective, lack of career management can result in: frustration feelings of not being valued by the company being unable to find suitable employment should a job change be necessary due to mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, or downsizing
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Career Management and Career Motivation

Career motivation refers to: Employees energy to invest in their careers Their awareness of the direction they want their careers to take The ability to maintain energy and direction despite barriers they may encounter
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Career Motivation

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Career motivation has three aspects: Career resilience the extent to which employees are able to cope with problems that affect their work Career insight - how much employees know about their interests, skill strengths, and weaknesses, the awareness of how these perceptions relate to their career goals Career identity the degree to which employees define their personal values according to their work
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The Value of Career Motivation

Components of Career Motivation Career Resilience Company Value
Innovation Employees adapting to unexpected changes Commitment to company Pride in work

Career Insight

Employee Value
Be aware of skill strengths and weaknesses Participate in learning activities Cope with less than ideal working conditions Avoid skill obsolescence

Career Identity
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What is a Career?
It is the individual sequence of attitudes and behavior associated with work-related experiences and activities over the span of the persons life. The concept of careers can be described: as an advancement. as a profession. a lifelong sequence of jobs. a lifelong sequence of role-related experiences.
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What Is A Career?
Traditional Career Sequence of positions held within an occupation
Context of mobility is within an organization

Characteristic of the employee

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Protean Career Frequently changing based on changes in the person and changes in the work environment Employees take major responsibility for managing their careers Based on self-direction with the goal of psychological success in ones work

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Comparison of Traditional Career and Protean Career:

Dimension Traditional Career Promotions Salary increase Security for commitment Vertical Protean Career

Goal
Psychological contract Mobility

Psychological success
Employability for flexibility Lateral Employee

Responsibility Company for Management

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Pattern

Linear and

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Spiral and

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Test Your Knowledge

An employee starts out as a sales person, then becomes an account manager, gets promoted to sales manager, and is now VP of Sales. Which type of career did this employee have?
A. Protean B. Traditional

C. Glass ceiling
D. Dead end

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