The document discusses career development and effective organizational career development techniques. It states that a career consists of five stages from exploration to decline. Effective techniques for organizations include challenging initial jobs, disseminating career information, job postings, assessment centers, career counseling, workshops, continuing education and training, periodic job changes, and sabbaticals. Individual career development is a three-step self-assessment process of identifying skills and interests, converting them into career goals, and testing possibilities against organizational or market realities. The document concludes that career opportunities appear good for post-baby boom groups with various suggestions to get ahead and twelve promising careers for the next decade.

1. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Presentation
by
Prof.M.S.S.Varadan
Chairman
Om Consultants (India) Pvt. Ltd.
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2. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
 A career is a sequence of positions
occupied by a person during the course
of a lifetime
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3.  Effective organizational career
development
 Ensure that needed talent will be
available
 Improve the organization’s ability to
attract and retain high-talent personnel
 Ensure that minorities and women will
have opportunities for growth and
development
 Reduce employee frustrations
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4.  A career can be viewed as consisting of
five stages:
 Exploration
 Establishment
 Mid-career
 Late career
 Decline
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5.  Effective organizational career
development techniques include
 Challenging initial jobs
 Dissemination of career option
information
 Job postings
 Assessment centers
 Career counseling
 Career development workshops
 Continuing education and training
 Periodic job changes
 Sabbaticals
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6.  Individual career development is a three-
step self-assessment process:
 Identifying and organizing skills,
interests, work-related needs, and
values
 Converting these inventories into
general career fields and specific job
goals
 Testing these possibilities against the
realities of the organization or the job
market
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7.  Career opportunities appear to be good
for the post-baby boom group:
 There are a variety of suggestions that
one can follow to get ahead
 Mobility seems to be an issue
 Twelve careers have been identified as
being promising in the next decade
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