Career Management

Chapters 3 and 4

Career Management

Review from Ch. 1:Objective vs. subjective experience

An example from your assignment?

Career ManagementCareer and self-exploration

Collection and analysis of information on career related issues

Related to self-awareness

Related to opportunity awareness

Precursor to realistic goals and strategies

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

Values – abstract outcomes indicating individual preferences or desires

Six primary life values:– Theoretical (knowledge)– Economic (financial gain, stability)– Aesthetic (beauty, creative aspiration)– Religious (spiritually based)– Social (concern for others)– Political (power, leadership)

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

Donald Super – work values, etc.– Work values (broad preferences for

outcomes)– Interests (likes and dislikes)– Talents (aptitudes, abilities, capacities)

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

John Holland – General interest inventory on occupational orientations (focus on personality/style)

– Realistic– Investigative– Social– Conventional– Enterprising– Artistic

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

Edward Strong – General interest inventory (focus on occupational preferences)

– 25 basic interests grouped by Holland’s orientations (subject areas, people, leisure, etc.)

– http://www.hollandcodes.com/strong-interest-inventory.html

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

Other assessmentsPersonality

– Meyers-Briggs http://www.myersbriggs.org/– Big 5 Personality Inventory

Striving Instincts– http://www.kolbe.com

Aptitude tests

Work Preference Inventories

Temperament

IQ and other cognitive ability tests

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

Edgar Schein – Career anchors– Technical/functional– Managerial– Autonomy– Security– Service– Pure challenge– Life-style– Entrepreneurship

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

Other techniques– Written interview– Diary – activity, affect, preference– Life-style representation

Organize information into themes

Explore the environment

Career ManagementSelf-exploration

Develop an inventory to assess:

– Interests– Skills– Other talents and characteristics– Job related preferences

Career ManagementSelf-exploration best when intrinsically motivating

Incomplete exploration

Coerced exploration

Random and diffused exploration

Ineffective forms of exploration

Defensive exploration

Exclusion of total life view

Career ManagementCareer Goals

Desired career-related outcomes

Give an example of :conceptual vs. operational goals

Expressive vs. instrumental goals

Short vs. long terms goals

Career ManagementCareer Strategies

Competence in current job

Extended work involvement

Skill development

Opportunity development

Mentor and support development

Image building

Organizational politics

Career ManagementCareer Appraisal

Conceptual goal

Operational goal

Strategy

What are the factors that limit effective career appraisal?