1. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Presentation
by
Prof.M.S.S.Varadan
Chairman
Om Consultants (India) Pvt. Ltd.
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2. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
 A career is a sequence of positions
occupied by a person during the course
of a lifetime
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3.  Effective organizational career
development
 Ensure that needed talent will be
available
 Improve the organization’s ability to
attract and retain high-talent personnel
 Ensure that minorities and women will
have opportunities for growth and
development
 Reduce employee frustrations
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4.  A career can be viewed as consisting of
five stages:
 Exploration
 Establishment
 Mid-career
 Late career
 Decline
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5.  Effective organizational career
development techniques include
 Challenging initial jobs
 Dissemination of career option
information
 Job postings
 Assessment centers
 Career counseling
 Career development workshops
 Continuing education and training
 Periodic job changes
 Sabbaticals
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6.  Individual career development is a three-
step self-assessment process:
 Identifying and organizing skills,
interests, work-related needs, and
values
 Converting these inventories into
general career fields and specific job
goals
 Testing these possibilities against the
realities of the organization or the job
market
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7.  Career opportunities appear to be good
for the post-baby boom group:
 There are a variety of suggestions that
one can follow to get ahead
 Mobility seems to be an issue
 Twelve careers have been identified as
being promising in the next decade
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