This document discusses strategies for managing one's career over their lifetime. It outlines the typical stages of a career from exploration to decline. It also describes Holland's vocational preference model and provides tips for career success, including finding a mentor, developing skills and networks, supporting one's boss, gaining control of resources, and staying visible. The key strategies emphasized are selecting jobs judiciously, doing good work, presenting the right image, learning power structures, staying mobile between roles and organizations, thinking laterally, and participating in internships.

1. Presented by: Awais Ali
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Federal Urdu University
of Arts Science & Technology
Human Resource Management
Presented to Mam Khizra Ahmad

2. Managing
Careers

3. What is Career ?
The progress and actions taken by
a person throughout a lifetime,
especially those related to that
person's occupations.

4. Career Development
Career development involves
• managing your career either within
or between organizations
• learning new skills, and making
improvements to help you in your
career.
• Career development is an ongoing,
lifelong process to help you learn
and achieve more in your career.

5. Career Stages
Exploration
Establishment
Mid Career
Late Career
Decline

6. Exploration
Establishment
Mid Career
Late Career
Decline
A career stage that usually ends in the mid
twenties as on makes the transition from
school to work

7. Exploration
Establishment
Mid Career
Late Career
Decline
A career stage in which one begins to
search for work & find a first job

8. Exploration
Establishment
Mid Career
Late Career
A stage marked by continuous
improvement in performance,
leveling off in performance, or
beginning the deterioration of
performance
Decline

9. Exploration
Establishment
Mid Career
Late Career
A career stage in which
individuals are no longer
learning about their jobs nor
expected to outdo levels of
performance from previous
year.
Decline

10. Exploration
Establishment
Mid Career
Late Career
A final stage of career in which
usually marked by retirement
Decline

11. Career Choices & Preferences
Holland vocational Preference Model:
• People have varying occupational preferences if you
think your job is important you will be more productive
• You have more in common with those who share similar
interest patterns
• You have more in common with those
Who share similar interest pattern

12. Holland Vocational Preference Model
R
I
• Realistic(R)
• Investigative(I)
• Artistic(A)
C
A
• Social(S)
• Enterprising(E)
• Conventional(C)
E
S

13. Managing Your Career
Making your career decision
• The best career choice is the match between the best
you want out of life & what you need

14. Find a
Mentor
Develop a
Network
Support
Your Boss
Acquire &
Continue
Upgrading
Your Skills
Participate
in an
Internship
Find a
Mentor
Stay
Mobile
Don’t
Stay too
Long
Think
Laterally
Select Your
job
judiciously
Stay
Visible
Do
Good
Work
Gain
Control of
Org.
Resources
Learn The
Power
Structure
Present
the right
image

15. Select Your First Job Judiciously
• One should select the powerful
department as the place to start a
management career
• To start from the powerful
department one is more likely to
advance rapidly

16. Do Good Work
• Good Work Performance is necessary condition
For career success
• A marginal performer may be rewarded but it is in
short term but his weakness bound him & cutoff
his/her career advancement
• A good work performance is no guarantee of
success, but without it, a successful long term
career is unlikely.

17. Present the Right Image
• One should assess the organization’s
culture to determine what is the
organization’s needs & values
• One should need to project that image in
terms of Organization’s relationships &
culture.

18. Learn the Power Structure
• Understanding organization
hierarchy & structure
• Who’s really the in charge?
• Who reports to whom?
• Once an individual has a
knowledge of power he can work
with more skill & ease

19. Gain Control Over Organizational
Resources
• The control of scarce & important
organizational resources is a source of
power
• Knowledge & expertise are particularly
effective resources of power

20. Stay Visible
• It is important that your boss & those in
power in the organization he made
aware of your contribution
• Different tactics should be used e.g.
distinguish your work from others, give a
regular progress report to the boss.

21. Don’t Stay Too Long
• If you really made a difference the accept
an early transfer to a new job assignment
• One should go for early transfer by moving
quickly through different departments
• This signals to other that you are on the fast
track

22. Find a Mentor
• It is noted that when a good mentoring
relationship exists employee stress is
decreased.

23. Support Your Boss
• One should make effort to help & support
the boss
• Be supportive if your boss is under siege
from other organizational members
• Don’t undermine your boss or speak
negatively of your boss to others

24. Stay Mobile
• Don’t stay at one place you should advance
yourself to different geographical locations &
across functional lines within the
organization
• Career advancement may also facilitate you
to change organization
• Working in slow, stagnant & decline
organization should make mobility more
important to you

25. Think Laterally
• To survive in the today’s management
environment you should think in terms of lateral
career moves
• A lateral thinking gives you a wide range of
experiences, which enhances your long term
mobility
• These moves energize you by making your work
more interesting & satisfying

26. Participate in an Internship
• Different organizations want some
experience from the applicant this
experience can be gained by
participating in the internships
• Now a days internships are the part of
curriculum in the universities
• Internships also provide a chance for
the employer to assess the internee
that he/she is fit for the job
requirements or not

27. Acquire & Continue Upgrading Your Skills
• In this competitive management world
individuals differentiate each other
through skills
• Organizations also need those
employees who continuously upgrade
their skills
• Examples MS OFFICE, English
Language, Report Writing Skills,
Customers & Market Research

28. Develop a Network
• One should develop a relations to the
Colleagues, suppliers, customers & so on it
can be a useful tool for career development
• Developing a strong relationship network
help the employee to the advance level of
his career

29. Thank You
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