The document discusses career planning and development, outlining that a career is a sequence of related jobs that provide meaning over a person's working life. It describes the three stages of career development as self-development, career exploration, and career management. The document also discusses the four stages of choosing a career as self-awareness, opportunity awareness, decision making, and taking action, as well as identifying one's career anchor that drives them at work. Finally, it defines career planning as the systematic process of selecting career goals.