Career Planning and Sucession Planning

Career Planning and Succession Planning

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Concepts of Career Management
What are careers?
– Sequence of work-related positions held by someone during lifetime

Career Paths
– Represent employees’ movements through opportunities over time.
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Concepts of Career Management
• Career management
– The process for enabling employees to better understand and develop their career skills and interests, and to use these skills and interests more effectively.

• Career development
– The lifelong series of activities that contribute to a person’s career exploration, establishment, success, and fulfillment.
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Careers and Career Planning
What is Career Planning?
It is an Individual’s choice of occupation, organizations and jobs based on –
Individual’s assessment of his/her interests, abilities and goals Examining alternative career options Establishing personal career goals Developing a career path Planning how to progress through the career path
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Careers and Career Planning

• Organization-Centered Career Planning
– Focuses on jobs and on identifying career paths that provide for the logical progression of people between jobs in the organization.

• Individual-Centered Career Planning
– Focuses on an individual’s career rather than in organizational needs.
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Process of Career Planning
Identification of Individual needs and aspirations Identification of Organizational needs and objectives Assessment of individual strengths and weaknesses Placement on career path Review of career plans
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Organizational and Individual Career Planning Perspectives

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Individual Career Planning Components
Individual Career Management

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