Welcome To Career Studio
Welcome to Career Studio
Career management is the combination of structured Planning and
the active management choice of one's own professional career. Career
management was first defined in a social work doctoral thesis by Mary Valentes
as the implementation of a career strategy through application of career
tactics in relation to chosen career orientation (Valentes & Grafton ,1978).
Career orientation referred to the overall design or pattern of one's career,
shaped by particular goals and interests and identifiable by particular
positions that embody these goals and interests. Career strategy pertains to
the individual's general approach to the realization of career goals, and to
the specificity of the goals themselves. Two general strategy approaches are
adaptive and planned. Career tactics are actions to maintain oneself in a
satisfactory employment situation. Tactics may be more or less assertive, with
assertiveness in the work situation referring to actions taken to advance one's
career interests or to exercise one's legitimate rights while respecting the
rights of others.
Valentes and Grafton defined success as managing one's career
effectively through the attainment of desired positions and other rewards. The
outcome of successful career management should include personal fulfillment,
work/life balance, goal achievement and financial security.
A career includes all types of employment
ranging from semi-skilled through skilled, and semiprofessional to
professional. Careers have often been restricted to an employment commitment to
a single trade skill, profession or business firm for the entire working life
of a person. In recent years, however, a career now includes changes or
modifications in employment during the foreseeable future.
The following
classification system with minor variations is widely used:
Ø Development of overall goals and objectives.
Ø Development of a strategy (a general means to
accomplish the selected goals/objectives).
Ø Development of the specific means (policies,
rules, procedures and activities) to implement Systematic evaluation of the
progress toward the achievement of the selected goals/objectives to modify the
strategy, if necessary.
Welcome To Career Studio
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November 25, 2019
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Reviewed by career studio
on
November 25, 2019
Rating: 5