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    This document outlines the five steps of career planning: 1) self-assessment to understand your interests, personality, and skills; 2) exploring work and career options; 3) narrowing options to 3-5 choices; 4) deciding on the best option by considering job requirements and personal goals; and 5) setting a specific, measurable career goal. It also discusses different career paths like steady, linear, transitory, and spiral, and identifies potential barriers to goals like negative self-image, habits, and personality traits. The overall message is that career planning through self-reflection and goal-setting can help ensure success and fulfillment in one's work.

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    This document outlines the five steps of career planning: 1) self-assessment to understand your interests, personality, and skills; 2) exploring work and career options; 3) narrowing options to 3-5 choices; 4) deciding on the best option by considering job requirements and personal goals; and 5) setting a specific, measurable career goal. It also discusses different career paths like steady, linear, transitory, and spiral, and identifies potential barriers to goals like negative self-image, habits, and personality traits. The overall message is that career planning through self-reflection and goal-setting can help ensure success and fulfillment in one's work.

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    This document outlines the five steps of career planning: 1) self-assessment to understand your interests, personality, and skills; 2) exploring work and career options; 3) narrowing options to 3-5 choices; 4) deciding on the best option by considering job requirements and personal goals; and 5) setting a specific, measurable career goal. It also discusses different career paths like steady, linear, transitory, and spiral, and identifies potential barriers to goals like negative self-image, habits, and personality traits. The overall message is that career planning through self-reflection and goal-setting can help ensure success and fulfillment in one's work.

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    CAREER PLANNING

    Presented by:

    Vijay Nair

    CAREER PLANNING
    is a deliberate process of
    knowing WHO you are so that you can
    be sure of WHERE you want to go or
    WHAT you want to be at some
    defined point in the future.

    FIVE STEPS OF CAREER


    PLANNING
    1st Step: Self-Assessment
    2nd Step: Explore Work/Career Options
    3rd Step: Narrow Down List of
    Work/Career Options
    4th Step: Decide or Choose the Best Option
    5th Step: Set a Career Goal

    1st Step:

    Self-Assessment

    Knowing and understanding of self


    better to know if you are in the right
    job/career or you want to go to
    another job.

    Attitude
    Interests
    Personality
    Needs
    Values
    Skills

    2nd Step:

    Work/Career Exploration
    Matching and aligning what
    you want to do on one
    hand, and with the various
    opportunities, on the
    other.

    Where to explore
    Look at opportunities within your
    organization and its subsidiaries
    Look at career opportunities in
    other organizations and in other
    industries
    Look at entrepreneurial and selfemployment opportunities
    Look at jobs/careers of people
    you know of those you read about
    or see

    Narrow Down List


    of Work/Career Options

    3rd Step:

    List down three to five


    career options that is
    match with your interest,
    personality, needs, values
    and skills, on one hand and
    the opportunities and
    limitations, on the other.

    5 Career Options Sample


    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.

    Field engineer or IT Specialist


    Pursue graduate
    School instructor
    Hardware business owner
    Company Manager

    Kinds of Career Paths


    Steady State
    requires a life long commitment
    to one career and is characterized
    by a steady improvement in
    knowledge and skills.

    Linear
    - constant upward
    mobility in which
    there is a steady
    increase in power,
    responsibilities over
    the work of others,
    and financial rewards.

    Transitory
    - constant seeking for variety
    or independence. Jobs tend to
    be short term and mobility is
    generally lateral.

    Spiral
    - regular changes, usually every
    five or seven years. Mobility is
    usually lateral, and may be
    initially downward.

    Decide or Choose
    the Best Option

    4th Step:

    This step will let you choose


    the best from among the
    list of 3-5 options.
    Description of your ideal job
    Personal Mission Statement
    Job Requirements or
    Qualifications

    5th Step:

    Set a Career Goal


    This process will
    give you focus
    and it will
    motivate you to
    overcome
    obstacles that
    will keep you from
    achieving your
    goal.

    What makes a goal good?


    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    6.

    Specific
    Measurable
    Attainable
    Relevant
    Time-bound
    Action-oriented

    Barriers to Goals and Plan


    Self-imposed or psychological barriers
    Negative self-image
    Negative attitude (bitterness,
    selfishness, rebellion, crab mentality
    etc.)
    Negative emotions (anxieties or fears)

    Victim mentality (feeling of


    incapacity)
    Intrapersonal conflicts (torn
    between two or more values)
    Personality traits (indecisiveness,
    aggressiveness, competitiveness)
    Habits (procrastination, cramming)
    Negative thought against other
    people (biases and prejudice)

    Prepare for setbacks and


    successes; ensure your
    career.

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    6.
    7.
    8.

    Keep an ongoing file of all your


    accomplishments.
    Be prepared for any contingency by
    maintaining an updated resume.
    Sharpen your communication skills.
    Build a network.
    Become indispensable or close to it.
    Remember that professional education
    and self-development are never-ending.
    Prepare for an alternative career.
    Work on being pleasant and courteous.

    The purpose of life, after


    all, is to live it, to taste
    experience to the
    utmost, to reach out
    eagerly and without fear
    for newer and richer
    experiences.
    - Eleanor
    Roosevelt

    Thank you!!!!

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