TECHNICAL

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Career Planning

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• Career planning is an ongoing process that can help you manage your learning and development.

• It is the combination of structured planning and the active management. It is a choice of one's own professional career.

• The outcome of successful career management should include personal fulfillment, work/life balance, goal achievement and financial security.

What is Career Planning?

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• The word career refers to all types of employment ranging from semi-skilled through skilled, and semi professional to professional.

• The career now refers to changes or modifications in employment during the foreseeable future.

Now the question occurs what is Career ?

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• Systematic evaluation of the progress toward the achievement of the selected goals to modify the strategy, if necessary.

• Development of a strategy.• Development of the specific means to implement

the strategy, and• Systematic evaluation of the progress toward the

achievement of the selected goals to modify the strategy, if necessary.

Basically it is:

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What is your Career Goal? • Generally, a career goal is based on your skills

and interests, career possibilities, and job trends.• This task may be quite difficult when the

individual lacks knowledge of career opportunities and/or is not fully aware of their talents and abilities.

Career Goal & Development

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• Short term goals: Short term goals (one or two years) are usually specific and

limited in scope. Short term goals are easier to formulate. Make sure they are achievable and relate to your longer term career goals.

• Intermediate goals: Intermediate goals (3 to 20 years) tend to be less specific and

more open ended than short term goals. Both intermediate and long term goals are more difficult to formulate than short term goals because there are so many unknowns about the future.

Types Of Goal

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Long term goals (Over 20 years), of course, are the most fluid of all.

Lack of life experience and knowledge about potential opportunities and pitfalls make the formulation of long term goals very difficult.

Long range goals, however, may be easily modified as additional information is received without a great loss of career efforts because of experience transfer from one career to another.

• Long term goals:

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• thinking about your interests, values, skills and preferences;

• exploring the life, work and learning options available to you;

• ensuring that your work fits with your personal circumstances; and

• Continuously fine-tuning your work and learning plans to help you manage the changes in your life and the world of work.

Career planning is the continuous process of:

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The Process:

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1. Never Stop Learning2. Ask, Listen And Learn3. Fulfill Your Current Job4. Build Your Network5. Identify Your Current Job6. Identify Your Next Job7. Prepare Yourself8. Pick The Right Tools9. Realize Your Dreams

Tips for Career Planning:

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Life-long learning is your keyword.• The world is constantly changing, and everybody

is looking for new ways of doing business. • If you have decided that your current skills are

good enough, you have also decided that your current job is good enough.

• But if you want a career in the future, you should add regular updates to your skills and knowledge.

Never Stop Learning

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A good listener can learn a lot.• Listen to your co-workers, your boss, and your superiors.

You can learn a lot from their experience.• Ask about issues that interest you, and listen to what they

say. Let them tell you about how things work, and what you could have done better.

Ask, Listen And Learn

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Your current job might be best place to start your career.

• It is often very little that separates successful people from the average. But nothing comes free.

• If you do your job well and fulfill your responsibilities, this is often the best way to start a new career.

• Suggest improvements. Offer your help when help is needed. In return ask for help to build a better career.

Fulfill Your Current Job

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Your next career step might arise from your contact network.• Did you know that more than 50% of all jobs are

obtained from contact networks?• Spend some time building new contacts, and don't

forget to maintain the ones you already have.• One of the best ways to get serious information from

your network is to regularly ask your contacts how they are, what they do, and what is new about their careers.

Build Your Network

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Your current job should be identified, not assumed.• Make sure you don't work with tasks you assume are

important. This is waste of time and talent. • When you start in a new job, talk to your superior

about your priorities. If you're not sure about what is most important, then ask him. And ask him again.

• Often you will be surprised about the differences between what you assume, and what is really important.

Identify Your Current Job

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Your dream job must be identified.• Before you start planning your future career, be sure you

have identified your dream job.• In your dream job, you will be doing all the things you

enjoy, and none of the things you don't enjoy. • What kind of job would that be? Do you like or dislike having responsibility for other employees. Do you like to work with technology or with people? Do you want to run your own business? Do you want to be an artist, a designer or a skilled engineer? A manager?

Identify Your Next Job

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Your dream might show up tomorrow. Be prepared.• Don't wait a second. Update your CV now, and continue

to update it regularly.• Tomorrow your dream job may show up right before

your nose. Prepare for it with a professional CV and be ready to describe yourself as a valuable object to anyone that will try to recruit you.

• If you don't know how to write a CV, or how to describe yourself, start learning it now.

Prepare Yourself

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Pick the tools you can handle.• You can build your future career using a

lot of different tools. • Studying at W3 Schools is easy. Taking a full

master degree is more complicated.

Pick The Right Tools

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Put your dreams into action.• Don't let a busy job kill your dreams. If you

have higher goals, put them into action now.• If you have plans about taking more

education, getting a better job, starting your own company or something else, you should not use your daily job as a "waiting station".

Realize Your Dreams

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