JOBTALKS
The Career
Planning Model
Indiana University
Kelley School of Business
C. Randall Powell, Ph.D
Contents used in this presentation are adapted from Career Planning Strategies
and used with the permission of the author.
What is Career Planning?
More practical than academic
Understand interrelated ideas
Don't allow circumstances to plan for you
A job search strategy is only one part of your career plan
Career Planning
Planning Basics
Basics
• What
What Do
Do You
You Have To Offer
• Who
Who Needs
Needs It
It
• How
How To
To Make
Make Them
Them Want
Want It
Catch 22
From employer:
– “For which position are you applying?"
– "What are your specific qualifications for it?"
From job hunter:
– "What do you have available?"
Catch 22
Who will answer first?
It's the employer's lead
Investigate BEFORE Interviewing!
Your Career Counselor?
Mentors – Bosses – Career Professionals
Many myths surround career planning!
Career Myth
#1
Your major subject
determines your
career choice.
False!
It should give you a
GENERAL education.
Career Myth
#2
They are irreversible.
False!
They are flexible.
You CAN change
directions!
CAREER = LIFESTYLE ?
Decisions can't be made in isolation
Education
Work
Family
Leisure
Career Planning Basics
TAKE CHARGE
Know:
1. Yourself
2. Career desires
3. Marketplace
Avoid:
Job desperation
Reactive behavior
Explore Options Before Interviewing
Interview Success = Career Planning
Credentials match job
opening
Planning is a Process
charting & adjusting course of action
logically organize course of action
allow steps to build upon a base
planning is progressive/collects new data
planning is interactive/recycles to re-examine
What is your strategic career plan?
Career Planning
Personal activity
Must decide for yourself!
Career Planning Requires Compromises
Compromises influence only timing
Strategy ultimately controls
Be flexible but don't
just GO WITH THE FLOW!
Career Planning is a series of decisions
Continually adding new information!
Decision Decision
Decisions
are
Re-evaluated
Decision
Career Planning
Self-Assessment
Career Job
Exploration Placement
PLANNING YOUR CAREER
Components
Class Guidelines
Announcements
A Career Development Program
The Career Planning Model
The Self-Assessment
Career Exploration
Job Market Influences
The SCOOP Sessions
Overview
Evaluation Questions
JOBTALKS
Career Planning:
The Career Planning Model
Business Career Planning and Placement
Indiana University
Kelley School of Business
C. Randall Powell, Ph.D.
If you would like to
learn more, Career
Planning Strategies
textbook will supply
additional information
on this topic.