Guidance on how to plan your career.

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2. Career Planning

3. What is a career?
Job vs. Career
• Job – “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. What is Career planning?
Career planning consists
of decisions and actions
that you take to achieve
your individual career
goals.

5. Why plan your career?
• better planned than left to chance
• determines how you spend your resources
• determines your ability to maximise your potentials
• determines your ability to live the life you want
• determines your place in the society
• determines your value to your generation

6. Who should plan your career?
• government?
• family?
•Society?
• organisation?
• you?

7. Your career is in your hands!

8. Learning
Stage
• Self…personality, interests, values and abilities
• Skills…training, education, certification
• Industry…age, xteristics, prospects, opportunities, competition, challenges, etc
Demonst
ration
Stage
• Competencies, critical character traits, delivers on targets
• Leadership potential…Supervisory roles
Key
Contributor
Stage
• Performance driver…Manager of people and resources
• Key contributor
CAREER LIFE-CYCLE
Peak
Stage
Decline
Stage
• Full leadership, strategist
• Gives direction to others, mentorship, coaching
• Passing the torch
• Industry veteran

9. Age and Career Planning
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10. Age Ideal position
21-24 Management Trainee
25-28 Assistant Manager
29-32 Deputy Manager
33-36 Manager
37-40 Deputy General Manager
41-45 General Manager
46-50 Director

11. Factors that affect career growth
• ignorance
industry structure
• organisational structure
• career derailment
• career plateauing
• others

12. Taking charge again…
• do a personal re-assessment of your career
• assess the +s and –s
• do a personal swot analysis
• do a socio-economic environmental scan
• seek counsel
• take a personal retreat to reflect on 1-5 above
• take a decision
• act…act…act!!!

13. Here…There
“What got you here won’t take
you there!”
Marshall Goldsmith

14. Self Assessment
Academic/ Career
options
Relevant /Practical
Experience
Job Search
Individual career
planning process

15. Self- Assessment
• Aware of the interrelationship between
self and occupational choice
• Start by:
• Learning interests, abilities, skills, and work
values
• Listing accomplishments
• Understanding physical and psychological
needs
• Assessing aspirations and motivation level
• Deciphering personal traits and
characteristics
Interests Abilities
Values Personality

16. • Who are you now?
• Why are you here (purpose)?
• What are your special skills, abilities,
talents, gifts (assets)?
• Where/when are you in your zone?
• Who needs what you love to do?
• What will you do next (stepping stones)?
• What competencies will you work on?
• What does your future look and feel like?
Some Pertinent Questions…

17. Technical and
Professional Workers
Dual Career Ladders
Women and Careers
Sequencing
Glass Ceiling
Special
Individual
Career
Issues
Global Career Concerns
Repatriation
Global Development
Dual-Career Couples
Family vs.Career
Relocation
Career Issues