Career management

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Career management is defined by Ball (1997) #redirect as:

1. Making career choices and decisions – the traditional focus of careers interventions. The changed nature of work means that individuals may now have to revisit this process more frequently than in the past.
2. Managing the organisational career – concerns the career management tasks of individuals within the workplace, such as decision-making, life-stage transitions, dealing with stress etc.
3. Managing 'boundaryless' careers – refers to skills needed by workers whose employment is beyond the boundaries of a single organisation, a workstyle common among, for example, artists and designers.
4. Taking control of one's personal development – as employers take less responsibility, employees need to take control of their own development in order to maintain and enhance their employability.

Now that the job-for-life covenant between employer and employee has been superseded by an insecure and uncertain job market, career management has become a necessary survival skill rather than being an activity pursued by Ivy League alumni or people born with a silver spoon in the mouth. Job security is now based on knowledge, skills and added-value rather than length of service or loyalty to an employer. Career management is nothing more than a small investment of time, money and energy to protect the major source of revenue—one's job.

Career Planning

Career planning is a subset of career management. Career planning applies the concepts of Strategic planning and Marketing to taking charge of one's professional future.

Quotes

• "In today's marketplace, job-hunting is for dummies, the smart people career-hunt." Rowan Manahan, author of Where's My Oasis?, Vermilion, 2004

• "The even smarter people career plan," [Leon Winer], retired Marketing Professor.

External links

• [Career X Roads] Career management deficiency
• [RecruitIreland.com] Overview on career management
• [StudentIndia.com]Career options analysis
• [jobpodge.com] a searchable collection of real life job experiences and career advice

See also

• Career
• Job interview
• Résumé

 

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