CAREER PLANNING

BY
R.SANJAY
P.SITHARTHAN
MBA(II).
 CAREER PLANNING

According to Flippo, “a career is a sequence of

separate but related work activities that provide
continuity, order, and meaning in a person’s life”.
 FACTORS
• Personality of employee
• Education, completed training and courses
• Behaviour and self - presentation
• Performed job position
 CAREER STAGES
Five stages in career development
• Stage # 1. Exploration
A career stage that usually ends in the mid-twenties as one
makes the transition from school/college to work
• Stage # 2. Establishment
A career stage in which a person finds his/her first job
• Stage # 3. Mid-Career
It is a career stage shown by continuous improvement in
performance, leveling off in performance or beginning
deterioration of performance
 CONT…
• Stage # 4. Late Career
A career stage where the employees experience a pleasant time
and enjoy by resting on their laurels
• Stage # 5. Decline
This is the stage at the end of one’s career, usually marked by
retirement
 CAREER ANCHORS
According to Schein, “A career anchor consists of the
individual’s talents, motives and values, as perceived by
himself/ herself, which the individual uses to for motives
and stabilize his/ her career”.
 CAREER ANCHORS
• Technical/functional competence
-Focus on developing skills
• Autonomy/independence
-Flexibility & freedom
• Pure challenge
-To solve impossible problems
• Security/stability
-Loyalty & promise of tenure
 CONT…
• Entrepreneurial creativity
-Create an organization or enterprise
• Service/dedication to a cause
-Making the world a better place
• General managerial competence
-Opportunity to develop up the ladder
• Lifestyle
-Balance and integrate personal, family and career
needs
 NEEDS
1. Provides career goals and paths
2. Develop competencies
3. Creativity
4. Employee retention
5. Motivation
Thank you