This is helpful for HR students.

1. Career Planning
Presented by,
Neeraj Joshi
Mayank Kshetrapal
Praneeth
Karan Chhabria

2. Definition
According to Schermerborn, Hunt, and Osborn,
‘Career planning is a process of systematically
matching career goals and individual capabilities with
opportunities for their fulfillment’.
Career planning is the process of enhancing an
employee’s future value.
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3. Career planning in HR
Career planning assists in finding those employees
who could be able for higher level positions, on
the strength of their performance.
On the other hand HR should be plan for employees
those who are leading to retirement, death,
resignation of existing employees.
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4. OBJECTIVES
 Career planning facilitates the employees to develop not only
their career goals but also the ways to achieve these goals.
 It helps individuals to remain competitive in the labour market by
constantly upgrading competences as part of goal fulfilment
efforts.
 It acts as the basis or standard for tracing the career progression
achieved by an employee throughout his work life.
 It forms the basis for succession planning in the organization. It
helps the organization in its preparation for the future by
identifying and developing people for critical positions.
Contd….
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5.  Through career planning, an organization can attract and
retain its best people for a relatively longer period of time.
 Career planning is viewed as an effective technique by the
organization to limit the labour turnover and achieve better
employee efficiency and commit went.
 It provides an opportunity for the organization to assess
the strengths and weaknesses and also the area of
development of the employees for the purpose
of career planning and development.
OBJECTIVES (Contd..)5

6. Career Planning Process
Self
Assessment
Explore
Career
Options
Narrow
Down
Taking
Action
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7. Self Assessment:
Begin by thinking about where you are now, where you want to be and
how you’re going to get there.
Work/Career Exploration:
This step is about exploring the occupations and learning areas that
interest you.
Narrow Down list of Work/Career Options:
This step involves comparing your options, narrowing down your choices
and thinking about what suits you best at this point in time.
Taking Action:
Here you plan the steps you need to take to put your plan into action.
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8. Benefits of Career Planning
 Career Planning ensures a constant supply of promotable
employees.
It helps in improving the loyalty of employees.
Career planning encourages an employee’s growth &
development.
It ensures that senior management knows about the caliber
& capacity of the employees who can move upwards.
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9. Benefits (Contd..)
Every organization prepares succession planning towards
which career planning is the first step.
It can always create a team of employees prepared enough
to meet any contingency.
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10. Thank You!