1. Professional Studies 3A
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By Ditshego Mokobodi
Student No: 201214576

2. LIFE ORIENTATION GRADE 10
TOPIC : Careers and career choices

3. Career Choices
Putting the Pieces Together

4. Career Choices
Interest
Planning
Skills
Preparation
Goals
Salary
Education

5. Introduction

The concepts of career and career management is
important in order to retain and motivate employees.

These companies do provide resources supporting careers
such as development opportunities, mentoring, and
training managers in how to coach employees.

A major challenge is how to balance advancing current
employees’ careers with simultaneously attracting and
acquiring employees with new skills.
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6. Career planning what’s that??
“Career planning consists
of activities and actions
that you take to achieve
your individual career
goals”

7. WHAT IS A CAREER?

A career is a person’s chosen profession or
occupation.

A Career is all the jobs that held during
ones working life.

8. WHAT IS CAREER??

Job vs. Career
 Job
– “What can I do now to make money?”
 Career
– Chosen Profession for your life. Requires
a willingness to get the training needed to build
your skills for the future.

A career is the work a person does. It is the sequence
of jobs that an individual has held throughout his or
her working life E.g. occupation of nursing.

9. 11-11
W career planning?
hy
Career planning seeks to meet the following objectives
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Attract and retain talent.

Use human resources properly and achieve greater
productivity.
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Reduce employee turnover.
Improve employee morale and motivation.
Meet the current and future human resource needs.
of the organization.
Career And Succession Planning

10. Career planning : An ongoing
process
Here You…
 Explore your interests and
abilities
 Strategically plan your
career goals
 Create your future work
success by designing
learning and action plans to
help you achieve your goals.

11. How important is career
planning?

People leave an organization due to lack of career
growth

Deeper focus on an employee’s aims and aspirations

Degree of clarity

Helps in identifying handicaps & the blind spots to
overcome

Significant motivator

Key retention tool

Critical human resource strategy

12. Planning

Steps:
 What
are your interest?
 What
do you want to be?
 What
are your skills?
 What
types of careers fit your skills and
interest?
 How
do you prepare for the career?

13. Interest

What are your interests?

What do you like to do? Think about experiences you
have enjoyed. What kind of school, religious, social, or
sports activities do you like?

What are your interests?

Make a list of 10 activities you have enjoyed doing in
the past four years.

14. Interest

What are your interests?
 Evaluate
those interests. Think about what you
liked about the activities. What challenges did
the activities offer? What skills do you need to
develop further to continue in those activities?

15. Career Goal
What
is your Career Goal?
A career goal helps you focus on what you want to do for
a living. A career goal can be a specific job you want to
do -- such as doctor or teacher -- or a career goal can
be a particular field you want to work in, such as
medicine or education.

16. Career Goal
What
is your Career Goal?
Rather than limiting your future, a career goal
may help you discover career possibilities that
you wouldn't have thought of otherwise.

17. Career Goal
 What is your Career Goal?
A career goal will also guide you into doing what you want
with your life -- rather than just drifting into a job.
Generally, a career goal is based on your skills and interests,
career possibilities, and job trends.

18. Career Development Cycle
1.Self Awareness &
Assessment- interest, ability
and
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19. 11-5
Career stages

Exploration: the transition that occurs in mid-twenties
as one looks at
work after college education, seeking
answer to various questions
about careers from
teachers, friends etc.
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Establishment: this is the stage where one begins the
search for work, picks up the first job, commits mistakes
and learns thereafter.
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Career And Succession Planning

20. Career stages

Mid-career: Between 35 and 50 one is typically
confronted with a
plateaued career, where your
maturity and experience are still valued but there is
the nagging feeling of having lost the initial fire in
the belly

Late career: This is the stage where one relaxes a
bit and plays an
elderly role, offering advice to
younger ones as to how to avoid career
mistakes
and grow continually.

Decline: This is the stage where one is constantly

21. Deeper insight …

It is the life- long process a person goes through to
learn about himself such as
 purpose,
 personality
 interests
 skills
 talents

Develop a self- concept, learn about careers, and

22. Contd..

The major focus is matching personal goals and
opportunities that are realistically available.

Career planning is building bridges from one’s current
job/career to next job/career.

Well-conceived career plan is flexible to accommodate
changing opportunities for development

23. A typical
Employee
views a career
planning
Programme
as a path to
upward
mobility
The manager
Win-Win situation
for all
The top management
view it as a
tool for
succession planning
sees career
planning
as a retention
And
motivational
tool

24. Self Assessment
Job Search
Individual career
planning process
Relevant /Practical
Experience
Academic/ Career
options

25. Organizational career planning
process
Projected Outcome
Career planning options
Transitions
Career Time
Direction

26. 11-3
Career: Important features

A career develops over time

The success of one's career depends, most often,
on one's own careful planning and timely steps taken
at a right time

The
important
element
in
one's
career
is
experiencing psychological success.

The typical career of a person today would probably
include many positions and transitions.
Career And Succession Planning

27. 11-14
Individual career development

Performance

Exposure

Networking

Leveraging

Loyalty

Mentors and sponsors

Key subordinates

Expanding capabilities over time
Career And Succession Planning

28. Career-Impacted Life Stages
 Exploration
 Establishment
 Mid career
 Late career
 Decline

29. Stages of Career Development
Stage 5: Late Career (ages 55–retirement):
Stage 5: Late Career (ages 55–retirement):
Remain productive in work, maintain self-esteem, prepare for
Remain productive in work, maintain self-esteem, prepare for
effective retirement.
effective retirement.
Stage 4: Midcareer (ages 40–55):
Stage 4: Midcareer (ages 40–55):
Reappraise early career and early adulthood goals, reaffirm or
Reappraise early career and early adulthood goals, reaffirm or
modify goals, make choices appropriate to middle adult years,
modify goals, make choices appropriate to middle adult years,
remain productive.
remain productive.
Stage 3: Early Career (ages 25–40):
Stage 3: Early Career (ages 25–40):
Learn job, learn organizational rules and norms, fit into chosen
Learn job, learn organizational rules and norms, fit into chosen
occupation and organization, increase competence, pursue goals. .
occupation and organization, increase competence, pursue goals
Stage 2: Organizational Entry (ages 18–25):
Stage 2: Organizational Entry (ages 18–25):
Obtain job offer(s) from desired organization(s), select appropriate
Obtain job offer(s) from desired organization(s), select appropriate
job based on complete and accurate information.
job based on complete and accurate information.
Stage 1: Preparation for Work (ages 0–18):
Stage 1: Preparation for Work (ages 0–18):
Develop occupational self-image, assess alternative occupations,
Develop occupational self-image, assess alternative occupations,
develop initial occupational choice, pursue necessary education.
develop initial occupational choice, pursue necessary education.

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