It is an ongoing process by which individual’s progress through series of changes until they achieve their personal level of maximum achievement.
There are two major activities in Career Development:
- Career planning
- Career management
Career Planning
It refers to a deliberate process of becoming aware of self, opportunities, choice, and consequences, identifying career-related goals, and working to attain career goals.
The process of career planning:
- Self
- Options
- Match
- Action
Career Management
It is a process of preparing, implementing and monitoring career plans undertaken by the individual alone or in concert with the organization’s career systems.
The model of career management:
- Career exploration
- Awareness of self and environment
- Goal setting
- Strategy development
- Strategy implementations
- Progress toward the goal
- Feedback from work and non-work sources
- Career appraisal
