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• Career development


  An important aspect in your life's journey because you will spend a bigger part of your life in your career
• Career growth and development


  A process through which your distinct characteristics for work are formed
• Personal factors influencing career choices


  • Personality
  • Attitudes
  • Values
  • Skills
  • Interest
• Personality


  Your traits and characteristics that affects the way you do your work
• Basic dimensions of personality assessment


  • Extraversion or Introversion
  • Sensing or Intuitive
  • Thinking or Feeling
  • Judging or Perceiving
• Components of attitudes


  • Cognition (your set of beliefs or perception)
  • Affects (how you feel about certain situations)
  • Behaviour (actions caused by the way you think and how you feel)
• Values


  The principles or standards that guide you in making choices and decisions in life
• Types of skills


  • Technical skills (knowledge of theories and capacity to perform specific and operational tasks)
  • Functional skills (communication, teamwork, organization, problem solving)
• Interests or preference


  Activities that you enjoy doing, including your likes, dislikes, and things that motivate you
• Personality types


  • Realistic
  • Investigative
  • Artistic
  • Enterprising
  • Social
  • Conventional
• Job


  Includes all the activities or tasks that people do whether they are paid or not
• Career


  A lifelong vocation that is planned and follows a logical progression of jobs within the chosen profession
• Differences between job and career


  • Job may include income received for financial growth, is routinely done, and done for financial and security and stability
  • Career is something where you focus your passion and interest
• External factors influencing choice of career


  • Family
  • Peer Group Influence
  • Financial or Economic Condition
  • Mass Media
• Career fields to consider


  • Accounting (financial operation and transactions, preparation, verification and auditing of accounts)
  • Banking and Finance (bank managers, tellers, customer service advisers)
• Types of career paths


  • Steady State (fixed improvement in knowledge and skills)
  • Linear path (upward movement with increase in responsibility and authority)
  • Transitory path (continuous movement, short-term jobs)
  • Spiral path (regular changes in job every 5-7 years)
• Laddered Career Path


  Career movement from the lowest position to the top or managerial and executive
• Latticed Career Path


  Flexible models of career advancement to build stronger connections between employer and employee, and instill loyalty
• Steps in career planning


  • Assessment
  • Explore career opportunities
  • Narrow down list of career choices
  • Decide or choose the best option
  • Set your career goals and implement your plans
• Personal Development


  The process of continuously developing or enhancing yourself to realize your career and life goals
• Factors affecting personality development


  • Communication Skills (verbal, non-verbal, speaking, conversation, telephone, writing, listening, body language)
  • Time and Stress Management skills
  • Personal Care and Personal Appearance
  • Personal Finances