CAREER

DEVELOPMENT
 CAREER AND CAREER
DEVELOPMENT

What is career?

Def. (Oxford English Dictionary)

A person’s course or progress through life.

It also pertains to his occupational or profession that usually

involves special training or formal education and is considered
to be a person’s lifework.

What is career development?

Career development is an ongoing process of gaining knowledge and

improving skills that will help an individual to establish a career
plan.
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 Career is the totality of work and leisure in
which a person is involved in his or her
whole life

National Career Development

Association (Sears, 1982)

 To reflect the nature of such a

comprehensive and complex self-
development through the person’s life span

Gysbers & More (1981)

 C AREER
D EVELOPMENT
 Employees prepare the knowledges and
skills to enter the labour market
the Lisbon Agenda, (2010)

 Organization needs to realise that positive

career development for their workforce is a way
of helping to attract and retain the best people
by recognising and responding to the needs of
individual employees they will get the best out
of them
Hackman, (1986)
 T HE C AREER D EVELOPMENT
P LANNING

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS INDIVIDUAL NEEDS

 Required  Strengths & Development
Needs
 Competencies
 Career Interests
 Strategic Initiatives
 Annual Goals
 Opportunities or Open
Positions
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P OLICIES

 Transfers
 Promotions and Demotions/Termination
 Relocation Services
 Outplacement Services
 Development Opportunity Announcements
 C AREER C HOICES AND
P REFERENCES
Holland R I
Vocational
Preferences
Model identifies six
C A
vocational themes
1. Realistic

2. Investigative

3. Artistic E S

4. Social
Letters connected by the line indicate
5. Enterprising reinforcing themes; letters not connected
represent opposing themes.
6. Conventional
H OLLAND ’ S M ODEL
 T RADITIONAL C AREER
S TAGES
Exploration Estblshment Mid career Late Career Decline

High
Will performance
Job increase or decline?
Performance

Low

Transition Getting first

The elder Preparing for
from school job and
statesperson retirement
to work being
accepted

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
Age
T HE C AREER C YCLE : A N EW M ODEL

Beginning

Expanding

Changing

Mid-Career

Toward End of Career