career planning and development
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Overview
A career can be defined as all the jobs held by a person during his working life. It consists of a series of properly sequenced role experience leading to an increasing level of responsibility, status, power, and rewards.
According to Filippo, “a career is a sequence of separate but related work activities that provide continuity, order, and meaning in a person’s life”. This is the objective view of a person’s career.
However, there is also a subjective element in the concept of career in the sense that changes in attitudes, motivation and values occur as a person grows old. In both the perspectives, the focus is on the individual. Career, thus, represents an organised, well-timed and positive move taken by a person across tune and space. It must be noted here that a person’s career is shaped by many factors, e.g., education, experience, performance, parents, caste links and some occasional luck.
Similarly, while some people like creative personnel and artists may deal independently with shaping their careers, there are others those employed by somebody do not have much scope for their own pursuits and, in turn, career. What Is Career Planning?
Career planning can be defined as a systematic process by which one decides his/her career goals and the path to reach these goals.
For example, one young man decides upon an academic career and establishes the following sequence of positions.
(1) Ph. D. degree by age 26,
(2) Lecturer by 27,
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(3) First book published by 30,
(4) Reader by 35,
(5) Professor and the head of the department by 40,
(6) Dean of the school by 45, and
(7) Vice Chancellor of a university by 55.
From an organisation’s view point, career planning stands for the forward looking employment policies of it which take into account the career of individual employees involved in various tasks. It unites organisational human resource planning with individual career needs. Individual career goals and career path in conformity with individual
Overview
A career can be defined as all the jobs held by a person during his working life. It consists of a series of properly sequenced role experience leading to an increasing level of responsibility, status, power, and rewards.
According to Filippo, “a career is a sequence of separate but related work activities that provide continuity, order, and meaning in a person’s life”. This is the objective view of a person’s career.
However, there is also a subjective element in the concept of career in the sense that changes in attitudes, motivation and values occur as a person grows old. In both the perspectives, the focus is on the individual. Career, thus, represents an organised, well-timed and positive move taken by a person across tune and space. It must be noted here that a person’s career is shaped by many factors, e.g., education, experience, performance, parents, caste links and some occasional luck.
Similarly, while some people like creative personnel and artists may deal independently with shaping their careers, there are others those employed by somebody do not have much scope for their own pursuits and, in turn, career. What Is Career Planning?
Career planning can be defined as a systematic process by which one decides his/her career goals and the path to reach these goals.
For example, one young man decides upon an academic career and establishes the following sequence of positions.
(1) Ph. D. degree by age 26,
(2) Lecturer by 27,
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(3) First book published by 30,
(4) Reader by 35,
(5) Professor and the head of the department by 40,
(6) Dean of the school by 45, and
(7) Vice Chancellor of a university by 55.
From an organisation’s view point, career planning stands for the forward looking employment policies of it which take into account the career of individual employees involved in various tasks. It unites organisational human resource planning with individual career needs. Individual career goals and career path in conformity with individual