Just a career guidance for Intermediate Level school students - how to decide a career

1. Speaker :
Mr. SUMIT SAXENA
Faculty Management

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Attitude
Interests
Personality
Needs
Values
Skills

6. 2nd Step:
Work/Career Exploration
Matching and aligning what you
want to do on one hand, and with
the various opportunities, on the
other.

7. 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 self-
employment opportunities
Look at jobs/careers of people you
know of those you read about or see

8. 3rd
Step: Narrow Down List of Work/Career
Options
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.

9. 5 Career Options Sample
1. Field engineer or IT Specialist
2. Pursue graduate
3. School instructor
4. Hardware business owner
5. Company Manager

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. 4th
Step: Decide or Choose the Best
Option
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

15. 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.

16. What makes a goal good?
1. Specific
2. Measurable
3. Attainable
4. Relevant
5. Time-bound
6. Action-oriented

17. 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)

18. 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)

19. Prepare for setbacks and
successes; ensure your career.

20. 1. Keep an ongoing file of all your
accomplishments.
2. Be prepared for any contingency by
maintaining an updated resume.
3. Sharpen your communication skills.
4. Build a network.
5. Become indispensable or close to it.
6. Remember that professional education and
self-development are never-ending.
7. Prepare for an alternative career.
8. Work on being pleasant and courteous.

21. 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

22. Thank you!!!!