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Career

Exploration and
Management

Lecture 1
Dr. Safa
What is your understanding of the word
CAREER?
What Do
You
Expect
from this
Course?
What Do
You
Expect
from this
Course?
What Do
You
Expect
from this
Course?
What Do
You
Expect
from this
Course?
Career back in the time?
• Career choice was nonexistent.
• Your career was what you were born into.
• Individuals followed the path laid down by their circumstances.
• Exceptions: Wealthy or privileged class.
Career now?
• Not much spending of careers at one workplace.
• Work and organizations have become international.
• Diversity in workforce.
• Balance between gender and work.
• Availability of resources – better career/job choices.
• Rapid changes.
• Career planning is becoming more and more challenging.
Recent Career Related Problems:

• Uncertainty or change in career directions.


• Job loss.
• Work-family conflicts.
• Getting the right person into the right place.
• Quality of work life might be compromised.
• Unemployment  health problems, domestic violence, and crime.
• Huge instability in the job market.
• Career quakes (Bolles, 2008).
This Course?
• Right kind of information.

Becoming informed is your way of becoming powerful in making


career decisions and in shaping your career path.
Career?

“Time extended working out of a purposeful life pattern through work


undertaken by a person.”
1 2 3 4

“Time extended, working out, of a purposeful, life pattern, through


work, undertaken by a person.”

5 6
1. Time extended:
• Not one event or choice.
• Not time limited or tied to one particular job or occupation.
• Rather, life long.
2. Working out:
• Compromises/struggles.
• Tradeoff between what a person might want and what is possible.
• Tradeoff between ideal and real.
• Continuing series of right and wrong choices.
• Costs and risks are involved.
• No perfect career path, but an optimal one.
Let's Talk!!!
Is this the degree that you ever wanted to do?
Any external pressures?
Any compromises?
Plans to change the direction later in life?
3. Purposeful:
• Meaning and purpose for the person itself.
• Planned, contemplated, worked on, and executed.
• motivation and goals.
• Person’s values and assumptions.
4. Life Pattern:
• More than just a job or employment.
• It blends in with your life.
5. Through work:
• An activity which produces something of value for oneself and/or
others.
• Paid as well as unpaid (volunteered).
6. Undertaken by the person:
• Unique to the person.
• No two persons can have the same career.

Finding a career out there that is right for me.

Developing the career that is me.


Are These the Same?
• Careers. Meanings in terms of people.
Unique to individuals.
• Occupation.
• Positions. Exist in organization and
industries.
• Jobs.
• Occupation: Group of similar positions in different industries and
organizations.
• Position: Group of tasks.
• Job: Paid position.
“People lose or gain jobs and positions, but not the careers”.
Career Development:

The total constellation of economic, sociological, psychological,


education, physical, and chance factors that combine to shape one’s
career.
Let’s Discover Your Interests:

www.wrksolutions.com/adventurevid
Write Down:
(1) Dream Jobs & Careers,
(2) Dream Activities,
(3) Dream Destinations, and
(4) Nightmares
Due Next Week:
• Biography.
• Career Planning.
• Aspirations.
• Influences/pressures/Barriers?

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