1. Examined and Recommended by,
Md. Galib Ishraq Emran.
Department of Environmental Sciences.
2015-16 Sessions.
Registration No: 41778.
Class Roll: 219.
Jahangirnagar University,
Savar, Dhaka-1342.
Email: mdgalibishraqemran@gmail.com

2. Career and Career Development
What is career?
Def. (Oxford English Dictionary):
A person’s course or progress through life.
It also pertains to his occupational or professional that usually
involves special training or formal education and is considered to
be a person’s life work
What is career development?
Career development is an ongoing process of gaining knowledge
and improving skills that will help an individual to establish a
career plan.

3. Career building skills and qualities
Notable skills and qualities for development of career:-
 Communication skill
 Positive attitude
 Self- Consciousness
 Self Confidence
 Firm Determination
 Leadership/ management skills
 Ethics and Integrity
 Creativity
 Decision making ability
 Stress management
 Time management
 Skills of using technologies

4. Communication Skill
Meaning:
The ability to convey or share ideas and feeling effectively.
Types:
Speaking, writing, listening and reading
Role in Career Development:
• Improves our chance of getting better
job facilities
• Makes us more efficient at work
• Increases our adaption capacity
• Helps us in becoming more productive
• Gives us the ability to influence others and build relationships

5. Positive Attitude
Meaning:
Taking any subject positively or keeping outlook to that subject or receiving the subject by
positive mentality
Role in Career Building:
1. Helps us engage with others more effectively and
gain support more easily for our ideas and initiatives
2. Stress lessens
3. Personality develops
3. Encouragement to work and attention to work
increases
4. Solving any problem becomes easy
5. Strengthens our ability to advocate effectively for ourselves and others
6. Builds our reputation as someone worthy of trust and support
In the end, positivity paves the way for growth, and growth breeds success

6. Self-Consciousness
Meaning:
Self determination towards oneself i.e. to know well about own good or bad, to have
complete knowledge how it is good and how it is bad
Role in Career Development:
1. One can realize one’s own good or bad,
and thus he can understand well when it will
be good to take any decision in his career.
2. Becomes easy to take decision about
future doings
3. Teaches us not to be dependent
on others.
4. Helps us in differentiating between right
and wrong, doing any work successfully.
5. Makes us aware our strength and weakness,
managing them in work place.
6. Management of emotions become easy.
7. Helps us in decision making.

7. Self Confidence
Meaning:
Strong faith in own strength, ability and competency
Role in Career Building:
1. Helps a man to make quick decision
2. Work becomes faultless, errorless & effective
if done confidently
3. Restricts inferiority complex and sense of
shame from deviating ourselves from determining and achieving the goal
4. Inspires a man not to become frustrated or disappointed
5. Enhances our personality
6. Helps in achieving the goal that one dreamt of
7. Makes us more productive

8. Leadership
Meaning:
The process of imposing on anyone the charge of coordinating
and controlling. In other words, it means the process of
conducting the work, controlling over it and inspiring the
workers.
Role in Career Building:
1. Helps us in making wise decisions
2. Helps us to become good manager
3. Strengthens association
4. Creates unity
5. Develops personality and individuality
6. Controls our emotion
7. Makes us punctual
8. Creates a mentality to take risks
9. Develops sympathy and empathy

9. Professional Ethics
Meaning:
Reflection of such code of rules and behaviors which are
expected from a professional in his profession, i.e. to observe
honesty, discipline, transparency, liability, rules and regulations.
Role in Career Building:
1. Teaches us honesty
2. Increases trust of others
3. Enhances moral values
4. Helps maintaining principles
5. Removes corruption
6. Helps to create professionalism
7. Promotes integrity
Albert Schweitzer says, “Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner
perfection of his own personality.”

10. Firm Determination
Meaning:
Interest in doing any work with much interest and strong
mentality.
Role in Career Development:
1. Decision taking ability improves
2. Self Confidence becomes increased
3. Work ends in time and done perfectly
4. Refrains us from stopping at any point
In our career
5. Helps us reaching the peak of success

11. Stress Management
Meaning:
Management of a specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear
or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium.
In other words management of physical, mental or emotional stain or tension.
Role in Career Development:
1. Enables a man to establish control over
himself.
2. Controls our emotion
3. Plans and aims are successfully executed.
4. Makes us mentally strong
5. Mental development is attained
6. Helps us in distinguishing between right
and wrong.

12. Time management
Meaning:
Planned use of time, i.e. dividing the planned works according to time and executing
them properly.
Role in Career Development:
1. Helps a man to remain firm to his goal and to
get deviated from that.
2. Increases our rate of success
3. Keeps us ahead of others
4. Leads to greater productivity
5. Decreases stress or tension
6. Leads to better professional status
7. Efficiency of our work relates to it
8. Helps us in prioritizing our work
9. Keeps things in context
10. Keeps us on track
11. Helps discipline ourselves
• It is to be remembered that, “Time and Tide wait for none.”

13. Creative Thinking
Meaning:
A way to look at and solve problems from a different
perspective, avoiding orthodox solutions and thinking outside the box.
Role in Career Building:
1. Allows us to explore connections, meet
new challenges and develop solutions that
are unusual, original and fresh.
2. Makes us open-minded
3. Inspires us in facing challenges and
accepting change.
4. Develops us as flexible persons
5. Makes us knowledgeable
6. Problems are solved more efficiently
7. Makes us successful at work.

14. Decision Making Ability
Meaning:
Considering goal and aim of any work, the power of doing right
work in due time
Role in Career Development:
1. Enhances self-determination
2. Better usage of resources
3. Facing the challenges and problems
4. Increasing overall efficiency
5. Achieving objectives
6. Innovating new ideas

15. Skills Of Using Technology
Meaning:
Knowledge and abilities needed to accomplish computer-related
complexities, as well as other tasks relating to technology.
Role in Career Development:
1. Enhances our learning
2. Enriches our skills in our profession
3. Fosters efficient work practices
4. Manages or participating in projects
5. Improves our communication skills
6. Augments our network
7. Increases our visibility and credibility