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Anjana.S
Career Planning
 What do you understand by the following:
a. Career?
b. Career Plan?
c. Career Planning?
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Meaning
According to Schermerborn, Hunt,
and Osborn, ‘Career planning is a
process of systematically matching
career goals and individual
capabilities with opportunities for
their fulfillment’.
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Features
 It is an ongoing process.
 It helps individuals develop skills required to fulfill different career
roles.
 It strengthens work-related activities in the organization.
 It defines life, career, abilities, and interests of the employees.
 It can also give professional directions, as they relate to career goals.
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Objectives
 To identify positive characteristics of the employees.
 To develop awareness about each employee’s uniqueness.
 To respect feelings of other employees.
 To attract talented employees to the organization.
 To train employees towards team-building skills.
 To create healthy ways of dealing with conflicts, emotions, and stress.
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Benefits of Career Planning
 Career planning ensures a constant supply of promotable employees.
 It helps in improving the loyalty of employees.
 It encourages an employee’s growth and development.
 It discourages the negative attitude of superiors who are interested in
suppressing the growth of the subordinates.
 It ensures that senior management knows about the caliber and
capacity of the employees who can move upwards.
 It can always create a team of employees prepared enough to meet any
contingency.
 It reduces labor turnover.
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Steps for Career Planning
Self-development
 Once you have self-analyzed yourself, fill the loopholes you have identified. By this
we mean that in this step you have to see what are the qualities and skills that are
required to help you achieve your aims and goals. For instance you might decide that
you need training or a particular course in a field in order to make you perfect for the
profession you have chosen.
 It could be that you are interested in painting but you are not much aware of the trends
or the knowledge that is required for this field. Or there can be a case where you are
interested and much aware about a profession like teaching but you do not yet know
that what is the niche level that is meant for you like and the subjects you can carry off
pretty well.
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 A thorough research self-development
 Once you have listed the careers that are favorable in your case and the skills and
improvements that are required by you in order to achieve excellence the third step
requires you to do an intensive research and see that what that are findings related to
career options and the skills that are required to make you champion in that. You research
will be looking into following questions:
 What is the scope of the career you have chosen?
 Will that career pay you off in the future?
 Is there room for expansion in that career field?
 Come up with action form
 Once you have researched the feasibility of the factors that you have finalized in above
steps, the next step is to show some action and translate your plans on a piece of page.
This step requires you to make plan as in how you are going to achieve and fulfill the
steps you have decided above. The best way to come with an action plan is to come up
with small goals for oneself. Once these small goals are achieved, we can see that how
much close we are to our main aim and major goal. This small step acts as a path way to
the main aim.
 Action
 Once you are done with small goals and the main aim, the next step remains to start
implementing your plans. Keep a very close track of your activities to make sure that you
are on the right track and that by following this path you are surely going to achieve you
goal!
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What is the Need for
Career Planning ?
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CAREERPLANNINGMODELS
There are many models one may use while career planning.The two main models are:
WaterlooUniversityModel
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The SODI Career Planning Model
 Law and Watts (1977)
 Self-awareness
 Opportunity awareness
 Decision making and planning
 Implementing plans
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Final Thoughts on Career Planning
 Don’t wait too long between career planning
sessions. Career planning can have multiple
benefits, from goal-setting to career change, to a
more successful life.
 Once you begin reviewing regularly and planning
your career you’ll find yourself better prepared for
whatever lies ahead in your career and in your
life.
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References
 www.educationplanner.org
 www.livecareer.com
 www.yourarticlelibrary.com
 www.corehr.wordpress.com
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THANKYOU
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