CAREER

DEVELOPMENT
AND WORK VALUES
Adopted from: Miss Jona Mae Lequin
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Fundamental Concepts

What is a Career?

» - it is the person’s progress throughout his life.

» - A part of life that is concerned with employment.

What is a career goal?

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- Will help you to focus on what you want for a

living.
- To discover possibilities that you wouldn’t have
thought of otherwise. - To guide you into doing
what you want with your life
rather than just drifting into a
job.
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“Choose a job you love,

and you will never
have to work a day
in your life." —
Confucius
 Tips for achieving career goals:

 Power of Planning
- plan
A will give you direction andstructure.
- Make a plan and write down what you want to achieve
.

 Persistence and Patience

- Stick clearly to your bigplan.
- Rise to the challenges you set for yourself.
- Face each hurdles as it comes and grow in confidence.
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 Work it
- Hard work is gold. Focus and make your work- work for you. -
The more you put in the better chances of career doors opening
for you.
 Critical is Good
- Feedback and criticism can sometimes be distractive but other
times it can be invaluable career advice and can actually help you
to do the task at hand better.
 - Listen carefully and respond in a positively fashion.

7 Tips for achieving career goals:

 True Passion
- Doing what you love for a living will naturally inspire you to reach
your career goals quicker.
- Find something you are interested in or enjoy research possibilities
and make your plan of action.
 Get informed
- Research and find out about your career and be as active in your
pursuit for information as you can.
- The more you are informed the more in tune you are to your
aspiration and targets.
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Tips for achieving career goals:

 Rewards
- Enjoy your hard work.
- Treat yourself for your achievement as you get closer to your career
goals.

 Steady your ship

- Achieving career goals is always a marathon.
- Pace yourself and don’t get distracted from doing the simple things
right.
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Tips for achieving career goals:

 Positive Mindset
- Believe in yourself and what you are capable
- Criticism
of. can knock off your career journey but stay focus on your plan
and reach high.

 Set the
- Ambition
pace is what you want it to
- Set
be. yourself new goals especially when you accomplish one and keep
your plans fresh, achievable and inspired.
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Setting Career Goals

Do you have short-term career goals

or long-term career goals?
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SHORT-TERM

» - Those that can be achieved within six months to

three years.
» - Is something you want to accomplish soon.
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LONG-TERM

» - is something you want to do further in the future.

» - Requires training and planning.
» - Usually take 12 months or more to achieve.
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Setting Career Goals

How to set Career Goals?

» 1.) Specific –
Individual shouldn’t
just focus on being
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successful but should define what

success really matters
» 2.) Measurable – One should
ensure to come up with a
way to measure the
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outcome. Set a timeframe as to when

to achieve your goals.
» 3.) Realistic - your goal must
represent an objective in
which you are willing and
able to work. You should
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ensure realistic chance that given the

right circumstances, you are able to
achieve it.
» 4.) Take action to each goal –
A person needs to take
certain measures to achieve
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his goals. Listing the different activities

that are needed to achieve a goal
makes the whole process easier.

» 5.) Commitment – Avoid

negative thoughts and be
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committed to where you want to be

and think about what you can do
towards getting there.
Career Development
- Refers to a series of activities designed to
match an individual’s needs, abilities and goals
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with current or future opportunities in the

organization.
- It is the process through which action plans
are implemented.
Job Performance
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– Career progression largely depends on the performance. The

better the performance the higher the
chances of going up to the corporate
ladder.

Resignation
» Individuals see career opportunities
elsewhere which are not available in
the existing organization. It may be the
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only alternative for a promotion, salary increase or a new learning

experience.

Mentors
» They can aid career development by
sharing their knowledge, insights and
wisdom pertaining to job performance
and work attitudes.

Growth Opportunities
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» Individuals can expand their abilities by enrolling for training

programs, acquiring an additional degree or seeking new work
assignments.
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Concepts of Career Development

- The Quality of Life– refers not just to
- The organization has an things like working conditions or pay
obligation to utilize its organization
but also to the extent to which each
employees’ abilities to has the duty
employee is able to utilize fully his
the fullest and to give to improve
every employee an abilities, engage in interesting jobs
the quality of and obtain the training and guidance
opportunity to grow and
realize his full potential. life to its that allows the person to move up to
employees. jobs that maximize his potential.
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How important is Career

Development?
1.) Fostering better
communication
- Promotes good communication at
all levels of organization.
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- Proper communication is the life-

blood of any organization and helps in solving
several big issues.
2.) Assisting with Career Decisions
» - Provides employees with helpful
assistance with career decisions by
giving opportunity to assess their skills
and competencies and know their goals
and future aspirations.
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» - It helps them give a direction so that they can

focus on achieving their long term career goals.
3.) Better use of employee skills

» - Helps organization in making better

use of employee skills to be able to
produce maximum output.
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4.) Setting Realistic Goals

» - Setting realistic goals and expectations help both

employees and organization to
understand what is feasible for them
and how they can achieve their goals.
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5.) Enhancing the career satisfaction

» - Organization needs to retain their valuable assets,

people and prepare them for top notch
position in the future.
» - They need to understand their career
requirements and expectation from
their organization.
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6.) Feedback
» - Giving feedback on every step is needed to
measure the success rate of a specific policy
implemented.
» - It also helps assess employee’s
performance so that they can
understand what is expected of them.