MODEL OF CAREER MANAGEMENT

Chapter 2

Series of Questions for a Decision or Series of Decision to be Made

Career in which Profession? Join a company or to pursue further studies? Choose a position (general mgt or just staff ? Change employee at present time? How change will effect family and others? Possibility to get a job in case of Unexpected Job Loss? Transition at midlife be a lifesaver or a disaster? Do volunteer work or start with your own company after retirement?

Information, Opportunities and Support From Need to make a Decision

Career Exploration

Awareness of Self and Environment Feedback: Work/Network

Goal setting

Career Appraisal
Progress towards Goal

Strategy Implementation

Strategy Development

Educational, Family, Work and Societal Institutions

Theory and Research on Career Management Process

Career Exploration:

More extensive and appropriate career exploration, more likely people will become aware of different facets of both themselves and world of work Mostly overestimated and also underestimated Knowledge of different occupations, organizations and career opportunities can also benefit from an active exploration of the environment

Career Exploration

Awareness of Self and Environment

Types of Career and Environmental Exploration

SELF EXPLORATION Interests Talents Strengths Weakness Work Values Job Challenge Job autonomy Security Work/Life Balance Money Working Conditions Helping others Power of influence ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLORATION Types of occupations Types of industries Necessary Job Skills Job Alternatives Company Alternatives Impact of Family on Career Decisions

For employed people, environmental exploration may be oriented more toward alternative jobs within a particular organization.

Effects of Career Exploration

Students who engage in extensive exploration could generate more job interviews and offers, obtain higher salary offers, and develop more realistic job expectations.

Career Strategy Career Goal Awareness

Career Appraisal

AWARENESS

Complete and accurate perception of own qualities and characteristics of relevant environment. A thorough awareness of self and environment enables to set appropriate career goals, develop strategies, job expectations and attain higher level of job satisfaction.

Awarenes s

Goal Setting

CAREER GOAL

A desired career-related out come intends to attain. Committed to specific, challenging task goals outperform those who dont have goals or have a weak commitment to establish goals. Complimentary behaviors and attitudes reinforce these goals to occur. Career goals doesnt have to involve a job change at all. Goal more specific, greater the likelihood of developing an effective strategy to achieve, job involvement and search.

Goal Setting

Career Strategy Development

CAREER STRATEGY

A sequence of activities designed to help attain career goal. Less influenced by formal education than by strategic behaviors as joining a prestigious social or political organizations which view employees as assets or intellectual capital.

Career Strategy Development

Career Strategy Implementation

Progress towards Goal

TYPE OF CAREER STRATEGIES

Competence in the present job Extended work involvement Development of skills Opportunity development Supportive relationships development Image building Organizational politice Career Strategy Implementation

Career Strategy Development

Progress towards Goal

CAREER APPRAISAL

Process by which people acquire and use feedback Constructive feedback enables to determine whether goals/strategies still make sense. Can reinforce a lead to modification of a goal Disappointments in outcome could propel a person to shift goals. Feedbacks function as a self-corrective mechanism Progres
s Feedbac k Career Appraisal Career Exploratio n

Career Strategy Implementatio n

An Ongoing Process

Work is such a central part of life, satisfying or can have a devastating effect on a persons sense of well-being. However, goals can be unrealistic and strategies are ill-conceived. Commitment to a prior designeven repeated failure and frustrationdont be fool that past failures will be reversed. Technological changes, reorganizations, downsizings, mergers and acquisitions can all affect a persons career. New talents, values can emerge with age, maturity and experience..

An Ongoing Process

Changing family situations can provide constraints and opportunities to careers. Career management should be a continual, problemsolving, decision making and adoptive process. Critical stages of Career Management: The choice of a college major, initial career field, job-search process, decision to remain specialized or broaden ones experience, reaction to a job loss and decision to reevaluate involvements in work and family roles, all require accurate information, realistic goals and plans, openness to feedback from the environment.

Indicators of Effective Career Mgt.

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A deep knowledge of oneself and an accurate picture of the environment. One cannot count on luck alone. Development of realistic goals that are compatible with your values, interests, abilities and desired life style instead of others. Compatibility or fit of goals and accomplishments with personal needs and values characterize effective career management

Indicators of Effective Career Mgt

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Effective career management requires development and implementation of appropriate career strategies, develop a valid career, accomplish goal according to plan. Careers require many diverse types of decisions to be made over. Its a continual feedback process. Goals and strategies may need fine-tuning or even a major overhaul. Striving process in which imperfect information and decisions are replaced by better information and decisions Individuals need to explore themselves and their environment in a systematic manner, select career goals and strategies in a conscious way, and pay close attention to changes in themselves and the world around them.

Assignment
What is your level of awareness of self and environment? What are your career management activities with respect to career exploration, goal setting, strategy?