CAREER

PLANNING

Presented By:
Abdul Wahed

Definitions:
1. According to Schermerborn, Hunt, and Osborn, Career
planning is a process of systematically matching career
goals and individual capabilities with opportunities for
their fulfillment.
2. Career planning is the process of enhancing an employees
future value.
3. A career plan is an individuals choice of occupation,
organization and career path.
4. Career planning encourages individuals to explore and
gather information, which enables them to synthesize,
gain competencies, make decisions, set goals and take
action. It is a crucial phase of human resource
development that helps the employees in making strategy
for work-life balance

Career Planning and Development

Process

Features of Career Planning:

1. It is an ongoing process.
2. It helps individuals develop skills required to fulfill different
career roles.
3. It strengthens work-related activities in the organization.
4. It defines life,
employees.

career,

abilities,

and

interests

of

the

5. It can also give professional directions, as they relate to

career goals

Objectives of Career Planning:

The major objectives of career planning are as follows:
1. Identify positive characteristics of the employees.
2. Develop awareness about each employees uniqueness.
3. Respect feelings of other employees.
4. Attract talented employees to the organization.
5. Train employees towards team-building skills.
6. Create healthy ways of dealing with conflicts, emotions, and
stress

Benefits of Career Planning:

1. Career planning ensures a constant supply of promotable
employees.
2. It helps in improving the loyalty of employees.
3. Career planning encourages an employees growth and
development.
4. It discourages the negative attitude of superiors who are
interested in suppressing the growth of the subordinates.
5. It ensures that senior management knows about the calibre
and capacity of the employees who can move upwards.
6. It can always create a team of employees prepared enough
to meet any contingency.
7. Career planning reduces labour turnover.
8. Every organization prepares succession planning towards
which career planning is the first step

Scope of Career Planning:

1. Human Resource Forecasting and Planning
2. Career Information
3. Career Counseling
4. Career Pathing
5. Skill Assessment Training
6. Succession Planning

Steps in Career Planning

(Employee Perspective)
1. Make Career Planning and Annual Event
2. Map Your Path Since Last Career Planning
3. Reflect On Your Likes and Dislikes, Needs and
Wants
4. Look Beyond Your Current Job for Transferable
Skills
5. Set Career and Job Goals

Why a Career Plan Could Fail

1. Efforts are Insincere
2. Look for Immediate Benefits
3. Lack of Interaction with Hired Agencies
4. Impracticability in Introduction
5. No System to Evaluate
6. Bureaucratic Model of Organization

Cadbury Case
Study
1.Early Career
2.Mid Career
3.Senior Career

Early Career
1. First Five (5) years of Employment
2. Management Skills Training
3. Internal Short term Placements
4. Workshops
5. Monitoring
Aim Understanding of Business Structure

Mid Career
1. Team Management Trainings
2. Strategic Leadership Trainings
3. International Opportunities
4. Ongoing Career Dialogues
Aim Equip with Capability to Lead Teams, Develop
and Deliver Business Strategies

Senior Level
1. Highest Level
2. Approximately 150 Members Globally
3. Global Leadership Conference
4. Executive Development Programme
5. External Expert Coaching
Aim Support Personal Leadership Styles to Set
Business Strategies

Thank
You