2. Agenda of this session
Objective of this session
What is career planning?
Why career planning is important?
How to discover your career?
Steps involve in career planning
What is the right for career planning?
Need of career planning
Benefits of career counselling
Myths about career planning
Success stories of career planning
Lesson to be learnt
3. Objective of this session
The purpose of this session is to offer resources & tools to
students, that will help them to decide on, prepare for &
begin a career in which they can serve as leaders.
Career Services assists students with all steps of the career planning
process including:
•Conducting Interest assessment
•ExploringCareer opportunities
•Searching for career experience
•Preparing for permanent employment after graduation
4. DISCOVER YOUR CAREER…
Teacher, minister, doctor, real estate, computer programmer,
banker, coach, accountant, lawyer, etc.
5. How To Discover Your Career?
Discovering your career requires effective
planning & self exploration.
As John Lees saying about discovering career:
is about finding a job that works for you,
matching who you are to the life you are
going to lead.”
6. What is career planning?
Career planning is a continuous process of
Thinking about your interests, values &
skills
exploring the life, work and learning
options available
ensuring that your work fits with your
personal circumstances
continuously fine-tuning your work and
learning plans manage the changes
7. Career Planning Continued
Planning based on priorities and realities
Building on what you have:
your employability skills
your specific skills and interests
your feelings about your work and life
8. Why career planning is
important?
Identify your
purpose &
passions
Helps in goal
setting
Helps in analysing
strengths &
weaknesses
Gives you
motivation
path to your goals
Balances your
personal & work
life
9. Steps involve in career
planning
Step1 Know
yourself
Step 2
Research
options
Step 3 Set
Goals
Step 4Take
Action
10. Step1: Know yourself
Knowing yourself revolves around the thoughtful
consideration, reflection, and evaluation of your
interests, personality characteristics, values, and skills
through a variety of methods, such as the use of a whole
host of career-related tools and instruments.
11. Self exploration
Begin by asking yourself the following questions:
Where am I at now?
Where do I want to be?
What do I want out of a job or career?
What do I like to do?
What are my strengths?
What is important to me?
12. Why self exploration is needed?
To understand the uniqueness and exactly route you to your
success
13. Know yourself continued
Identify & set your
Vision & Mission
Values
Roles
Skills/Aptitudes
Preferred Environments
Developmental Needs
Your realities
14. Identifying your vision, values, interests,
skills, traits and abilities will help you
decide what you want from your next career
move:
If you're choosing a new career direction, which of your
core values do you want it to reflect?
If you're looking for new challenges at work, which of
your skills or interests could help you develop and
advance?
If you're considering going back to school, which type of
program would make the most of your positive traits?
15. • Gathering career information is
an important part of the career
planning process.
• This information includes
employment outlook, salary,
related occupations, education
and training, and job duties.
• Find what you need in these
articles, descriptions, and
interviews.
Step2: Research Options
16. Research options continued
This step is about exploring the occupations
and learning areas that interest you.
Explore occupations that interest you
Watching someone 'in action'
Checking out some assumptions about a particular field of work
Research the Labor Market
17. Explore options continued
Get more specific information after you
narrow down your options by:
Job Shadowing
Part time work, internships, or volunteer
opportunities
Written materials
Informational interviews
18. Explore options continued
Match
During this phase of the process, you will:
Identify possible occupations
Evaluate these occupations
Explore alternatives
Choose both a short term and a long term
option
19. Step3: Set Goals
The decision-making step of the career
planning process is when you put all the
pieces of information about yourself and your
carefully collected career information
together as best as possible to produce a list
of career-related goals and options
21. SEVEN EASY WORDS TO HELP YOU NAVIGATE
FOR BEST CAREER OPPTIONS
Where is the work?
What skills do I need?
What options do I have to fulfil this gap?
Where are the gaps?
What's needed to get into this field?
What are the bad parts?
What are the good parts of doing this particular job for a living?
22. Evaluate your options and decide which ones
are the best for you at this stage of your life.
What are the advantages and disadvantages
of each alternative? Consider the challenges
you may face and how you can handle them.
23. Step4: Take Action
Here plan the steps you need to take to put your plan into
action. Use all you have learnt about your skills, interests
and values
together with the
information you
have gathered
about the world
of work to create
your plan.
24. Actions continued
Begin by asking yourself:
What actions/steps will help me achieve my
work, training and career goals?
Where can I get help?
Who will support me?
25. Actions continued
At the end of this step you will have:
A plan to help you explore your options
further (work experience, work shadowing or
more research)
A plan which sets out the steps to help you
achieve your next learning or work goal.
Decide which step is relevant for you right
now and start from there.
26. Actions continued
You will develop the steps you need to take in
order to reach your goal
Investigating sources of additional training
and education, if needed
Developing a job search strategy
Writing your resume
Gathering company information
Composing cover letters
Preparing for job interviews
27. What is the right time for
career planning?
Timing is very important to start
career planning. If you miss the
right time then you might fail to
shape your career the way you
wanted to be.
The right time for students would
be when they are in high school.
Child with his or her parents
should start visiting a career
counsellor for planning career.
If you are working professional
then you could start planning
anywhere in the middle of your
ongoing career.
28. Tips for building a Career
Realize your goals
Never Stop Learning
Ask, Listen And Learn
FulfillYour Current Job
BuildYour Network
PrepareYourself
29. Need of Career Planning
We live in a competitive world, which follows
the policy of Survival of the fittest a.k.a ‘The
Law ofThe Jungle’, where those who are
weak are crushed by the mighty.
Career Planning is a tool that makes a person
Competitive.
30. Benefits of Career planning
Satisfaction, success and happiness
Gives you a clearer picture of who you are.
Let you come across with your talent zone
GivesVision and Mission
Results in having realistic career goals
One feels better prepared for the future
Helps face and find solutions to educational &
career barriers
helps developing a support network and learn
where to go when help is needed
31. Myths
Choosing a career is simple
Most people get useful career counselling in
high school and college
A career counselor can tell me what occupation
to pick
Once I choose a career I'll be stuck in it forever
Career decisions should ideally be based on
solely on our skills
If my best friend is happy in
a particular field, I will be too
