The career is the result of achievements of conscious positions by the person in work connected with professional and official growth. At the same time planning of career is the direction of personnel work, one of personnel management components. The employee of firm or the HR manager can directly be engaged in process of planning of career.
Career stages
The main stages of planning and realization of career concern not only posts, but also certain milestones of life. It is conditionally possible to allocate such stages of planning of career:
- Aged up to 25 years. Includes receiving primary, secondary and higher education. The person looks for to the robot which will answer his ambitions.
- At the age of 25-30 years. Includes development of the chosen profession, acquisition of knowledge, abilities, skills, qualification formation. Search of job which will bring sufficient income.
- Career advance. At the age of 30-45 years. Qualification growth, advance on an office ladder, accumulation of practical experience. Job search with the high salary and a social package.
- Development and maintaining career. At the age of 45-60 years. Qualification improvement, vigorous activity, special training, transfer of knowledge in younger generations. Work for creative self-expression.
- Career ending. At the age of 60-65 years. Preparation for retirement.
- Pension stage. The career is complete, there is an opportunity for tests of in other types of activity as self-expression.
The purposes of career and setting the task of its planning each individual defines for himself. Main objectives of career are self-realization and satisfaction of financial requirements. And to plan and define tasks, it is necessary to understand at what stage of career you are and where you want to move. After that it is necessary to estimate crucially strong and weaknesses, to define how to use them and to draw to itself a way of the new activity. It is necessary to remember that planning of career is not an absolute guarantee of its successful performance, but just good way to develop skills and abilities and also to increase authority.
Technique of planning of career development
Treat the main methods of planning of career:
- the self-presentation (to show the abilities, skills, advantages);
- introspection (to investigate the pluses and minuses, requirements and opportunities);
- choice of profession on interests (ratio of the desires and opportunities).
Use a peculiar system of planning of career in which accept one of methodologies possible and close to you:
- Hierarchy of the purposes. Present the aspirations as a pyramid or a tree where the purposes of a high rank and the purposes of more low rank subordinated to them will be painted. Define tasks which you need to execute at a stage small the purposes to promote above.
- Planning of the purposes. Be defined in what look it would be desirable to see the life through some period (for example, in a year), allocate tasks which need to be executed for this purpose, and follow the plan.
- Model of vital strategy. Write the list of 10 most important purposes, break them into components (to buy, make, nobility, become, will join j). Define what you would do on reaching some purpose and continue further. As a result you receive a cycle of the purposes and their performance, for example: to stop HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION – to go to a training – to find highly paid work – to buy a car – to go to the Alps – to go skiing …. On the example of such planning of career it is visible what purposes are priority and what schemes it is necessary to apply to their implementation.
To construct career – difficult and ambiguous process. It is possible to use for this purpose various methods and strategy, but the most important is to believe that everything is possible, to formulate the accurate action plan and to follow it, overcoming steps to a goal.