JOBTALKS

The Career
Planning Model

Indiana University
Kelley School of Business
C. Randall Powell, Ph.D

Contents used in this presentation are adapted from Career Planning Strategies
and used with the permission of the author.
 What is Career Planning?
More practical than academic
Understand interrelated ideas
Don't allow circumstances to plan for you

A job search strategy is only one part of your career plan

Career Planning
Planning Basics
Basics

• What
What Do
Do You
You Have To Offer

• Who
Who Needs
Needs It
It

• How
How To
To Make
Make Them
Them Want
Want It
 Catch 22

From employer:
– “For which position are you applying?"
– "What are your specific qualifications for it?"


From job hunter:
– "What do you have available?"
 Catch 22
Who will answer first?

It's the employer's lead

Investigate BEFORE Interviewing!

 Your Career Counselor?

Mentors – Bosses – Career Professionals

Many myths surround career planning!

Career Myth
#1
Your major subject
determines your
career choice.

False!

It should give you a

GENERAL education.
 Career Myth
#2

They are irreversible.

False!

They are flexible.

You CAN change
directions!
CAREER = LIFESTYLE ?
Decisions can't be made in isolation

Education
Work
Family
Leisure
 Career Planning Basics
TAKE CHARGE
Know:
1. Yourself
2. Career desires
3. Marketplace

Avoid:
Job desperation
Reactive behavior
Explore Options Before Interviewing
Interview Success = Career Planning

Credentials match job

opening
 Planning is a Process

charting & adjusting course of action

logically organize course of action

allow steps to build upon a base

planning is progressive/collects new data

planning is interactive/recycles to re-examine

What is your strategic career plan?

 Career Planning
Personal activity

Must decide for yourself!

Career Planning Requires Compromises

Compromises influence only timing

Strategy ultimately controls
Be flexible but don't
just GO WITH THE FLOW!
Career Planning is a series of decisions
Continually adding new information!

Decision Decision
Decisions
are
Re-evaluated

Decision
 Career Planning

Self-Assessment

Career Job
Exploration Placement
PLANNING YOUR CAREER
Components
Class Guidelines
Announcements
A Career Development Program
The Career Planning Model
The Self-Assessment
Career Exploration
Job Market Influences
The SCOOP Sessions
Overview
Evaluation Questions
JOBTALKS

Career Planning:
The Career Planning Model
Business Career Planning and Placement

Indiana University
Kelley School of Business
C. Randall Powell, Ph.D.
If you would like to
learn more, Career
Planning Strategies
textbook will supply
additional information
on this topic.