Career planning in
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Career
A career may be defined as ‘ a sequence of jobs that constitute what a person does
for a living’.
An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with
opportunities for progress.
Career Planning
Career planning is a process of systematically matching career goals and
individual capabilities with opportunities for their fulfillment.
Career planning is the process of enhancing an employee’s future value.
A career plan is an individual’s choice of occupation, organization and career
path.
Career planning process
There are five steps of career planning process.
1. Self Assessment
2. Exploration and Research
3. Decision making
4. Taking Action
5. Evolution
Features of Career Planning
It is an ongoing process.
It helps individuals develop skills required to fulfill different career roles.
It strengthens work-related activities in the organization.
It defines life, career, abilities, and interests of the employees.
It can also give professional directions, as they relate to career goals.
Objectives of Career Planning
It provides and maintains appropriate human resources in an organization by
offering careers, not jobs.
It creates an able environment of effectiveness, efficiency and growth.
It maps out careers of different categories of employees, in accordance with their
ability and willingness to be ‘trained and developed’ to take the responsibility of
higher positions.
It seeks to maintain a stable workforce within an organization by controlling
absenteeism and reducing employee turnover.
It caters to the immediate and future human resource need of the organization at
appropriate time.
It increases proper utilization of managerial reserves within the organization.
Benefits of Career Planning
Career planning ensures a constant supply of promotable employees.
2. It helps in improving the loyalty of employees.
3. Career planning encourages an employee’s growth and development.
4. It discourages the negative attitude of superiors who are interested in
suppressing the growth of the subordinates.
It ensures that senior management knows about the caliber and capacity of the
employees who can move upwards.
6. It can always create a team of employees prepared enough to meet any
contingency (accident).
7. Career planning reduces labour turnover.
8. Every organization prepares succession planning towards which career
planning is the first step.
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