Assignment on

Topic – How does selecting from

available resources help in career
development (BS701)

by Abhishek Dey
M.Tech ECE III Semester
Amity University,Lucknow
Enrollment No. –A7615319002
Guide – Asst. Prof. Dr. Neerja
Pandey
WHAT IS CAREER DEVELOPMENT?
 Career development can be defined from two points of view: the
employer (the organization) and the employee (the individual)
perspectives.
 From the point of view of the employee, career development is the series
of activities or the on-going/lifelong process of developing one’s career.
Career development usually refers to managing one’s career in an intra-
organizational or inter-organizational scenario. It involves training on
new skills, moving to higher job responsibilities, making a career change
within the same organization, moving to a different organization or
starting one’s own business. Career development is directly linked to the
goals and objectives set by an individual. It starts with self-actualization
and self-assessment of one’s interests and capabilities. The interests are
then matched with the available options. The individual needs to train
himself to acquire the skills needed for the option or career path chosen
by him. Finally, after acquiring the desired competency, he has to
perform to achieve the goals and targets set by him.
 The organization’s objective is to maximize its human resources
productivity to achieve its goals, and career development aids in that
outlook by ensuring the “best match between people and jobs”. The
organization will place importance on how its employees are managing
their respective careers, and will take steps that provide structure to the
employee’s progress on their chosen career paths.

RESOURCES THAT HELP IN CAREER

DEVELOPMENT
 Self-Assessment:
Before you can choose the right career, you must learn about yourself.
Your values, interests, soft skills, and aptitudes, in combination with
your personality type, will make some occupations a good fit for you and
others completely inappropriate. You can use self-assessment tools, often
called career tests, to gather information about your traits and,
subsequently, to generate a list of occupations that are a good fit based on
them. Some people choose to work with a career counsellor or other
career development professionals who can help them navigate this
process.

 Career Awareness:
As the phrase implies, career awareness means you have to be
knowledgeable about the career or job you are going to aim for. This is
where you start looking for job opportunities and learning more about
career paths. The individual will study or gain knowledge about the jobs.
What are the skills required? What qualifications must the jobholder
have? What are the opportunities for growth of that job in this
organization? What about in another organization? Finally, after doing all
your research, you should feel reasonably ready to make your choice.
Pick the occupation that you think will bring you the most satisfaction
based on all the information you have gathered. It is important to realize
that you are allowed do-overs, if you change your mind about your choice
at any stage in your life.

 Goal Setting:
It’s time to have a clear career goal — one that reflects what you really want in
a career. In goal setting, you will take these two into consideration:

1. the results of your self-assessment.

2. the information obtained about the career.

Combining the two will help you identify possible career directions that you
will take. By setting career goals, you are giving your career development some
direction. You are setting a target, or a point that you must arrive at in the
future. Now that you have chosen the right career for you, it's time to identify
your long and short-term goals. If you don't, it will be difficult to eventually
work in the field you chose. Long-term goals typically take about three to five
years to reach, while you can usually fulfil a short-term goal in six months to
three years. If you don't have all the details, you will have to do some more
research. Once you have all the information you need, you can start setting your
goals. An example of a long-term goal would be completing your education and
training. Short-term goals might be applying to college, apprenticeships or other
training programs, and doing internships. 

In this step, you should develop the following:

1. A career development action plan, where you will outline in detail the
steps that you will take in order to achieve your short- and long-term
career goals. It is a written document that lays out all the steps that will
help you reach your primary goal of working in your chosen occupation.
2. A career vision statement, which encapsulates or reflects what you want
to achieve in your career. This statement is an articulation of what you
aspired to be in your work life.

 Skill Development:
So you are already employed in the company. You are doing your work,
and you are doing it well. However, good performance is not the only
factor that is considered when you are up for a promotion. The company
 will want to hire someone who will continue to add value to the
organization. This means that you, the employee, should continuously
develop yourself. You could try broadening your knowledge, or honing
and improving your skill sets. Employers are more appreciative to
employees who take the initiative to improve themselves, because this
means that they are dedicated to their own career development.

UC Berkeley suggested the 70-20-10 percentage rule when it comes to

developing your skills:

1. 70% should come from on-the-job activities and action

learning. You can do this by taking more active roles in the
organization, such as project management, collaboration with other
teams or departments, awareness of the jobs of other employees,
job shadowing, and many more.
2. 20% should come from interactions with other people, through
mentoring, coaching, community service, and many more.
3. 10% should come from trainings, classes, coursework, seminars,
conferences, and similar learning activities.

 Career Management:
In managing your career, you will focus on the following:

1. Building relationships. In fact, most career development efforts fail

due to lack of attention paid to relationship-building. The minute you
enter an organization to work, you are already in the company of
various people: your bosses and supervisors, your co-workers, the
customers, and other third parties and word partners and collaborators.
Networking is a very important business skill, and one that will
definitely be very useful when you are trying to bring your career
upward.
2. Shortlist the occupations to explore. At this point, you must begin to
narrow down your list even more. Based on what you learned from
your in-depth research so far, you can start to eliminate the careers
you don't want to pursue any further. Next, find any occupations from
your lists that appeal to you. Also, include professions about which
you don't know much. You might learn something unexpected. To
keep yourself organized, you should combine them into one master
list.
3. Continuous career planning. It goes without saying that your career
plan may also need some changing. What this means is that career
planning is a continuous process, and may consist of a series of
updating of the career development plan.