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The process through which employees:
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Become aware of their own interests, values, strengths, and weaknesses
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Obtain information about job opportunities within the company
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Identify career goals
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Establish action plans to achieve career goals
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| What is a Career? Four different meanings can be applied to the concept of careers. |
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1. Careers have been described as advancement.
2. Careers have been described as a profession.
3. Careers can be considers a lifelong sequence of jobs.
4. Careers can be described as a lifelong sequence of role-related experiences. |
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| the process by which employees progress through a series of stages, each characterized by a different set of developmental tasks, activities, and relationships. |
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| suggest that employees face certain developmental tasks over the course of their careers and that they move through distinct life or career stages. |
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| Organization-based models: |
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| suggest that careers proceed through a series of stages, but these models propose that career development involves employees' learning to perform certain activities. Each stage involves changes in activities and relationships with peers and managers. |
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| Directional pattern model: |
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| describes the form or shape of careers |
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| Identify interests, skills, fit between self and work |
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Establishment Career Stage |
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| Advancement, growth, security, develop lifestyle |
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| Hold on to accomplishments, update skills |
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| Disengagement Career Stage |
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| Retirement planning, change balance between work and non work |
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| Career management system: |
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| helps employees, managers and the company identify career development needs. |
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| the use of information by employees to determine their career interests, values, aptitudes, and behavioral tendencies |
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| Employees, their managers, human resource managers, and the company share the responsibility for this. |
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Resources companies provide for career planning
Companies are responsible for providing employees with the resources needed to be successful in managing their careers. These resources include specific programs as well as processes for career management:
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What are the 4
Career Stages |
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- Exploration
- Establishment
- Maintenance
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Disengagement
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| individuals attempt to identify the type of work that interests them. The consider their interests, values, and work preferences, and they seek information about jobs, careers, and occupations from co-workers, friends, and family members,. Once they identify the type of work or occupation that interests them, individuals can begin pursuing the needed education or training. Typically, exploration occurs in the mid-teens to early to late 20s (while the individual is still a student in high school, college, or technical school). |
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| individuals find their place in the company, make an independent contribution, achieve more responsibility and financial success, and establish a desirable lifestyle. |
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| the individual is concerned with keeping skills up to date and being perceived by others as someone who is still contributing to the company. Individuals in this stage have many years of job experience, much job knowledge, and an in-depth understanding of how the company expects business to be conducted. |
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| individuals prepare for a change in the balance between work and non work activities. They may take on the role of sponsor. |
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