This document discusses career planning and strategy. It notes that career planning helps identify individual strengths and weaknesses, and helps utilize strengths while overcoming weaknesses to take advantage of career opportunities. Career strategy is conceptually similar to organizational strategy. Career planning helps determine professional direction and make choices by considering factors like one's personality and skills. It involves setting goals and integrating long and short-term aims while accounting for environmental uncertainties.
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2. Helps in identifying the strengths &
weaknesses of an individual.
Helps to utilize strengths & overcome
weaknesses in order to take advantage of
career opportunities.
The process of career strategy is
conceptually similar to that of an
organizational strategy.
3. Helps in determining the direction of the
professional career, by answering the some
of the questions, that arise within the
managers.
Such as,
Am I an introvert or an extrovert ?
What are my attitudes toward time,
achievement, work, material things &
change?
4. In real life, people often resist career
planning because it involves making
decisions.
Likewise managers also resist goal setting
because of the uncertainities in the
environment.
They also possess the fear of failing to
achieve goals.
5. Identification of career goals:
-Goal setting is a continuous process
that is flexible, & can be revised according
to the changing circumstances.
Integration of long-term aims with the more
immediate requirement of action.
6. Planning in advance.
- The time frame for career planning
will differ with the circumstances.
7. Factors required to be taken into account,
- economic
- social
- political
- technological
- demographic
8. Working in an expanding company provides
more career opportunities than working in a
company that is not expected to grow.
Successful career planning requires a
systematic scanning of the environment for
opportunities & threats, this can be done
with the help of forecasting.
9. The environmental opportunities & threats
must be matched with the strengths &
weaknesses of individuals for the successful
career planning.
10. Technical Skills- Supervisory level
Conceptual / design Skills- Top managers
Human Skills- All levels
11. Helps in building up of ones strengths in
order to take advantage of opportunities.
That is, it helps to overcome the weakness &
develop the skills to take advantage of
opportunities.
It also helps in recognising the threats in the
environment & develop a strategy to cope
with them.
12. It is a logical & systematic analysis of the
career planning process that involves
personal preferences, ambitions & values.
Alternative choices must be chosen rationally
because some alternatives may involve high
risks, others low risks.
13. Some choices demand action now and others
can wait.
This choosing up of alternatives gains
importance because, the careers that were
popular in the past may have an uncertain
future.
14. The long-term strategic career plan needs to
be supported by short-term objectives &
action plans.
Eg: The aim of achieving an M.B.A degree
requires the completion of the short-term
objective such as number of courses.
15. Contigency plans are required for the
development of career plans in an
environment of uncertainity.
These plans should be prepared based on the
alternative assumptions.
16. It deals with the persons growth &
development in career planning.
Career goals & personal ambitions can be
considered in selecting & promoting & in
designing, training & development programs.
17. It helps in evaluating the progress toward
career goals & making necessary corrections
in the aims or plans.
The progress should be monitored even
during the completion of an important task
or project.