What Is Career Planning?

What is Career planning?
Career planning is a process in which personal skills, qualities,

knowledge, motivation, and other characteristics are actualized.
Information about job opportunities and choices is collected.
Specific goals are set through a plan for achieving success in the
career.
Career development is a series of activities aimed at establishing,

developing, succeeding, and enriching a career.
A career is a set of positions that a person has held in his

professional life, which enriches the experience of the
individual and ensures his growth in the profession. The
sequence of activities, including education, training, gaining
professional experience determines the career path. It is
related to the opportunities for holding a higher position in the
future.
Objectives of Career Planning and

Development
The following are the primary goals of career planning and development:
1. Employees’ favorable attributes must be identified.

2. To raise awareness of each employee’s uniqueness.
3. Recruiting skilled personnel for the company.
4. Employees should be trained in team-building skills.
5. To develop appropriate coping mechanisms for dealing with disputes,
emotions, and stress.
6. To respect the feelings of other employees.
Benefits of Career Planning and Development

Here are some of the vital benefits of career planning and development that
one should know about:
1. Career planning guarantees that there is a steady supply of

promotable personnel.
2. It contributes to increasing employee loyalty.
3. It ensures that top management is aware of the caliber and capacity
of personnel with the potential to advance.
4. It can always put together a team of employees that are ready to
handle any situation that arises.
5. Career planning helps to prevent labor turnover.
6. Every business plans for succession, with career planning as the
initial stage.
7. Career planning promotes the growth and development of
employees.
8. It inhibits seniors’ unfavorable attitudes toward subordinates’
progress.
What is career planning and development in HRM?

Career Planning and Development is the process of selecting career goals,
providing a path to those objectives, and taking personal steps to
accomplish those goals.
What are the 6 steps in the career planning process?

6 Career Planning Steps are:
Step 1: Investigate Your Career Options.
Step 2: Carry out field research.
Step 3: Determine Your Job Objective.
Step 4: Establish Your Credentials and Resume.
Step 5: Get Ready for a Job Search.
Step 6: Begin Looking for Work.
Why career planning and development is needed?

Career planning is necessary for the achievement of professional
development goals. The technique enables people to fulfil their full potential
based on their talents and to be more happy if they achieve their goals as a
result of careful preparation.
The organizational view of career planning is

related to achieving the following goals:
 Knowing the needs of employees;

 Informing employees about the potential
opportunities for development in the organization;
 Development of employees' abilities;
 Assistance for the manifestation of the potential of
the employees;
 Improving personal growth;
 Satisfying the needs of employees.
Five Stages of Career Development Planning

Career planning involves five important stages. They are −
 Assessing self and identifying areas of strength and aptitude.

 Finding career opportunities that suit your strengths.
 Setting goals in personal and professional life.
 Planning the actions of how to attain goals.
 Periodic evaluation of performance.
Let us now discuss the above-mentioned stages in detail.
Assessing Self
Assessing oneself is the act of reviewing one’s priorities, personal interests,
strengths and weaknesses, along with appropriate skill sets. These reviews
help the employee to get a realistic idea of his chances at career growth in
the organization. Assessing will also give him a transparent picture of the
skill sets required for specific job descriptions and promotions.
While this is a great tool for exploring growth opportunities in one’s own
organization, job seekers can use it to look for opportunities among friends
and family, and in job fairs. This reality checking also helps in finalizing
goals and setting aims for the future.
Finding Career Opportunities

After the self-assessment is done, the next step is to get a reality check on
what skills the person has and how they can serve him. In this step, the
candidate is supposed outline all the steps that he needs to follow to reach
a specific career. This involves taking stock of technical knowledge and
whether it is sufficient to guarantee a job opportunity.
The next significant objective is networking. The candidate should search, if
he has anyone in his contact who can offer an opportunity to him, or
facilitate the same. A working professional can utilize this step in making a
realistic assessment of his goals, if they are still achievable, and all the
changes that happened in the work place to influence his outlook.
Most of the organizations conduct annual appraisals that have many such
self-assessment questionnaires. This is where candidates can give
themselves a fair score and prove to the management, where all they have
contributed in the growth of the organization.
Setting Goals in Personal and Professional Life

In this phase, the candidate checks a range of career opportunities
available to him and determines which of his skillsets and knowledge levels
will be needed in the job of his choice. In this step, the candidate does
research and information-gathering from multiple sources like friends,
colleagues, co-workers, etc. and tries to find the best way that works for
him.
In this stage, many potential job-seekers also post their profiles in job
placement centers, who in turn, provide them with a list of qualifications
that employers seek in a candidate’s profile. A similar situation is found
inside the organization as well, where possible options for a position are
asked to brush up their skills.
Goal Setting
The third step in the process of career planning is that of goal setting,
where a person undergoes a period of self-assessment and investigates
his career opportunities to decide his long-term prospects in an
organization. It is important for the candidate to keep checking all his
options for a viable future.
It is also imperative that he looks for opportunities tailored for his personal
interests, abilities and skills. In short, his goals should be specific,
measured, set and reachable, so that he can gauge his success in
pursuing it.
Action Planning
Action planning involves the steps required to achieve goals such as

additional training or getting a specific set of managerial skills either for his
current position or for the one that he is aspiring to get. This step usually
involves a lot of communication with the senior employees working in
different roles in the organization. As these seniors are the individuals who
can share information with the rest of the people and inform them about the
various dynamics in the working spheres.

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What is Career planning?

Career planning is a process in which personal skills, qualities,

Career development is a series of activities aimed at establishing,

A career is a set of positions that a person has held in his

Objectives of Career Planning and

1. Employees’ favorable attributes must be identified.

Benefits of Career Planning and Development

1. Career planning guarantees that there is a steady supply of

What is career planning and development in HRM?

What are the 6 steps in the career planning process?

Why career planning and development is needed?

The organizational view of career planning is

 Knowing the needs of employees;

Five Stages of Career Development Planning

 Assessing self and identifying areas of strength and aptitude.

Finding Career Opportunities

Setting Goals in Personal and Professional Life

Action planning involves the steps required to achieve goals such as

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