career and career choices

1. Careers and
career choices
BY NKANYISO
YOUR FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS

2. content
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What is a career?
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What is the purpose of career?
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Is there a bad and a good career?
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Career planning
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Making a right choice
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Career development
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How to make success of your career

3. What is a career?
 Career
is a way of making a living
 It is not just about earning an income, it is
about pursuing the essence of your life
 profession or work which may require
certain levels of learning or training.
 It’s a life long job that you have been
trained to do.

4. What is the purpose of career?
To
meet ones societal needs and to
add value to the society
To ensure class differences in the
community e.g. a man with a degree in
law will have a better life quality than a
man who works at a supermarket

5. What is the purpose of career?
Cont.…
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Is to give us direction in life

6. Is there a bad and a good career?
 No
career is good or bad in itself
 The only thing that matters is the
person around that chosen career, as
long as it meets his/her needs

7. Career planning

8. Career planning cont.…

9. Career planning cont.…
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Explore the possible career options.
Find a mentor in the same field.
Make a list and choose the best fit.
Research the industry and gather as much information as possible.
Start working on your goals right now.

10. How does career planning happen
today?
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Most often students choose careers based on other’s preferences, it
might be:
1.
following the crowd
2.
Accepting choices made by parents
3.
Influence by media

11. Making a right choice
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There is only right or wrong choice in life

12. Making a right choice…
Everything in life is about choice
 To be happy, successful, fulfilled in life is a
matter of choice
 You have no one to blame for your wrong doings
because its all a matter of choice.
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13. Career development

14. Career development…
 A formal approach used by the firms to ensure that people
with proper qualifications and experience are available
when needed.
 Career development benefits both employees as well as
organizations.
 It is important to develop as a person, if you have a chance
to add your qualification do so.

15. Roles In Career Development
 Roles of two parties are crucial in in career development:
employer, employee.
 Employer’s Role-
1) Proactive
2) Encourage
3) Reward
4) Enlighten

16. Roles In Career Development cont.…
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Employee’s Role
1) Assessing one’s own KSA’s.
2) Seek out information about career options.
3) Make use of development opportunities provided in
organization
4)Establish goals and plans.
5) Accepts that career planning and developments are one’s own
responsibility

17. How to make success of your career
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You need to know your likes and dislikes. You need to discover your
goals and
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aspirations in life. You must decide what you feel most comfortable
doing.
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Tell your self that success is just near

18. How to make success of your
career…

19. How to make success of your
career…
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In conclusion, know

20. Reference list
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http://www.slideshare.net/EmmanuelAdewuyi/making-the-rightcareer-choice?-2013
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http://www.slideshare.net/atulmittal0109/career-planning-2009
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http://www.slideshare.net/ujjmishra1/career-development-ppt-2013
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http://www.slideshare.net/jobeestan/the-importance-of-careercounselling-2012
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http://www.slideshare.net/isabelcarter946179/get-yourself-astronger-career?-2013