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STEPS OR PROCESS OF CAREER MANAGEMENT


STEPS OF CAREER MANAGEMENT

Reaching your career goals ultimately leads to a more satisfying work life. The three-stage Career Management Process outlined in this guide will direct you down this path to success.

1. Discover Assess Yourself Research Careers:  In this first stage, you will assess yourself. What are your skills, your values, and your vision? Knowing more about yourself will help you identify the career areas that suit you best. You’ll also research careers to discover what opportunities would be a good fit.


2. Career Management Rules: The organisation needs to decide on the extent to which it ‘makes to buys’ talented people. Should it grow its own talent or should it rely on external recruitment?


3. Skills Measurement: Skills measurement review the stocks of talent available and flow required to demand and supply forecast and performance and potential assessment. They provide the basis for succession and career planning.


4. Performance Audit: The aim of performance and potential assessment is to identify training and development needs, provide guidance on possible direction in which an individual’s career might go, and indicate who has potential for promotion. This information can be obtained from performance management processes.


5. Exploration: Exploration is the second step and involves conducting research such as, using career library resources to find out about their careers of interest. Informational interviews are a great way to start building your network of people in jobs and industries you desire.


6. Career Planning: It uses all the information provided by the organisation’s assessment of requirement, the assessment of performance, and potential management succession plans, and translate it into the form of individual career development programmes and general arrangements for management development, career counselling and mentoring.


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