The document discusses career planning and succession planning. It defines career as the sequence of jobs an individual holds throughout their working life. It outlines the characteristics, benefits, and process of individual career planning which involves self-assessment, exploring information and opportunities, making decisions, creating action plans, and auditing results. Succession planning is defined as an ongoing process that systematically identifies, assesses, and develops organizational leadership through identifying key jobs, creating and assessing candidates, and final selection.

1. KULDEEP MATHUR
M.B.A.
JIWAJI UNIVERSITY GWALIOR

2. Organization of talk….
What is career planning ?
Glimpse of career planning process
How important is career planning
Guidelines
Career planning done by : Individuals
Organizations
Components of career planning

3. Job vs career
“What can I do now to make money?”
Career – Chosen Profession for your life. Requires a willingness to get
the training needed to build your skills for the future.
A career is the work a person does. It is the sequence of jobs that
an individual has held throughout his or her working life E.g.
occupation of nursing.

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF CAREER
PLANNING
• It is an ongoing process
• It develops and shares a personal life career diagrams/timeline
• It defines career, abilities and interests of employees
• It describes the various roles an individual may have as part of his career
and organization.
• It helps individual to develop skills required to fulfill different career roles,
within or outside an org
• It strengthens work-related activities in the organization.
• It charts out professional directions as they relate to career goals.

5. BENEFITS OF CAREER PLANNING
• Career planning develops promotable employees.
• Career planning reduces employee turnover.
• Career planning encourages employees’ growth and
development.
• Career planning reduces hoarding.
• Career planning will ensure that senior management will
become aware of the interests, skills and qualifications of
employees who would have better chances of moving
upwards.

6. Here You…
• Explore your interests and
abilities
• Strategically plan your career
goals
• Create your future work success
by designing learning and action
plans to help you achieve your
goals.

7. • The major focus is matching personal
goals and opportunities that are
realistically available.
• Career planning is building bridges
from one’s current job/career to next
job/career.
• Well-conceived career plan is flexible
to accommodate changing opportunities
for development career.
Contd……

8. How important is career planning?
• People leave an organization due to lack of career growth.
• Deeper focus on an employee’s aims and aspirations .
• Degree of clarity .
• Helps in identifying handicaps & the blind spots to
overcome.
• Significant motivator .
• Key retention tool.

9. Contd…
• High-level vision and goals of company are clearly made
known to employees.
• Growth of an organization is intrinsically linked with the
growth of an individual.
• Matching organization vision & employees aspirations is
must.

10. Individual Organization

11. Individual Career Planning
Individual Career Planning Process
Self-Assessment
Explore Information
Explore Opportunities
Make Decision
Action Plan
Audit Results

12. Individual Career Planning Process
Self-Assessment
Step 1: Self- Assessment
Process of gathering information about
self in order to make an informed career
decision
What are my motivating skills,
interests & values?
What new learning do I want?
Which work environment am I most
suited to?

13. Explore Information
Step 2: Explore Information
Process of assessing the data gathered
about self and exploring it with an open
perspective
How do I use self-assessment data to
develop options?
Are these options compatible with my
lifestyle?
Do I have any barriers/constraints at
this point?
Individual Career Planning Process

14. Explore Opportunities
Step 3: Explore Opportunities
Gathering career information which
includes- employment outlook.
What work-life options are available to
me?
Who can I ask for guidance?
How can I check my work-life options?
Individual Career Planning Process

15. Make Decision
Step 4: Make Decision
Process of decision-making for future
career option
Has the technique been adopted by me
for deciding on my career option a valid
one?
Who will listen to me and assist me
with my decision making ?
Individual Career Planning Process

16. Action Plan
Step 5: Action Plan
Develop the steps needed to take in
order to reach your goals
Have I planned what I need to do now
and later?
How do I market myself?
What should I put in my resume?
Individual Career Planning Process

17. Audit Results
Step 6: Audit Results
By working through the earlier steps
develop a better understanding of ones
career situation and audit the results
Have my expectations been met?
Are the results beneficial to me?
What have I learnt from the transition
process?
Individual Career Planning Process

18. Direction
Career Time
Transitions
Career planning options
Projected Outcome

19. What is Succession Planning?
Succession Planning is ongoing process of
• Systematically identifying
• Assessing
• Developing organizational leadership
Succession Planning entails three steps:
• Identifying and analyzing key jobs
• Creating and assessing candidates
• Selection