Career

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Career
A career denotes a succession of related jobs, arranged in a hierarchy of prestige, through which persons move in an ordered predictable sequence. Wilensky. A career is a separate but related work activities that activities that provide continuity, order and meaning to a persons life. Edwin Flippo A career is more than just the job or sequence of jobs a person holds over a lifetime. It is the individually perceived sequence of attitudes and behaviours associated with work-related experiences and activities over a persons life.

Career Anchor
Career

anchor are distinct patterns of selfperceived talents, attitudes, motives and values that guide and stabilise a persons career after several years of real-world experience and feed back. Career anchor denotes the basic drives that create the urge to take up a certain type of career.

These drives are as follows

a)

Technical competence

b)

Managerial competence Security

Professional satisfaction, continuous learning and updating ones expertise in a technical or specialised area such as quality control, advertising public relations etc.
Opportunities for higher responsibility, decision making, control and influence. Security of career through compliance with the organizations norms and perceptions Freedom of action and independence or autonomy. Opportunities for innovation and risk-taking.

c)

d)
e)

Autonomy
Creativity

Career Path
These
Unskilled(worker)

are flexible line of progression through which employees typically move.

Semi skilled skilled Highly skilled Foreman

Jr. Clerk

Sr. Clerk

Assistant

Section Officer

Under Secretary

Supervisor

Asst. Manager

Deputy Manager

Manager

Chief Manager

Career planning
It

is a Process by which one selects career goals and the path to those goals. Its purpose is to provide continuity order and meaning to a persons life. From the organizations point of view it means helping the employees to plan their career in terms of their capacities within the context of organizations need.

The Process of Career Planning

Preparation

of human resource inventory. Identifying individual career needs. Analyzing career opportunities. Matching of employees needs with career opportunities. Formulation and implementation of training and development. Review of career plan.

Career development
It

denotes the personal actions one undertakes to achieve the path to those goals. It consist of activities undertaken by the individual employees and the organization to meet career aspirations and job requirement

Challenging initial job

Dissemination of career option information Job posting Assessment centres Continuing education and training.

Career development workshop Periodic job changes Sabbaticals.

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