Abstract

A career is mostly seen as a course of successive situations that make up a person's occupation.
A person's worth is often measured by the career success or failings. It is not until an individual
matures and takes possession of their life that the realization of life balance occurs. Life balance
entails separating career activities, achievements and tasks from the rest of a person’s life. For
example, leaving the job at work and having a home life. Learning that career is necessary to
meet the needs of life and also have a life as well.

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Person Selection
We’ve selected a person who is a retired professor of a government college. His career has
objective and subjective elements that together form the basis of his own career.

Objective events or situation are job positions, job duties, or activities and work related
decisions.

Subjective interpretations of work related events, such as aspirations, expectations, values, needs
and feeling about particular work experiences.

(Private "mental" stuff: sensations, beliefs, feelings, emotions,

"Subjective" opinions, etc.)
is the opposite (contradictory) of
(public "physical" stuff: publicly-observable things, events,
"Objective" knowledge, facts)

Exploration Period
The exploration stage includes activities like trying to clarify and identify one’s interest
and skills, building skills through education or training programs. His exploration
period lasted upto 24 years.

Establishment Period
The establishment stage includes the successful negotiation through the recruiting
process, acceptance of a job, and orientation into the chosen organization. This is called
getting the first job. Our selected person got his first job at the age of 25. This was in a
government college.

Mid Career
In this period (35-50), he worked in many government colleges as assistant professor and
associate professor.

Late Career
In this period (after 50), he worked in two different government colleges as a professor. At
the age of 57 he retired from government job.

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 Objective experience Subjective experience

Relatively good performance

in high school having
Perceives aptitude and
science group. (Age 14-17)
interest in biological
subject.
Graduate in Zoology from
university and accepts job as
lecturer of Govt. College by Enjoy teaching.
appearing BCS. (Age 24)

Receives training in
government institute. Bored; Needs more
(Age 25-27) stimulation and control
over time.
Got special training in life
science. (Age 28)
Enjoys the training and
Receives certificate after the perform well.
completion of training.
(age 30)
Enjoy work; look forward
to good future.
Gets promotion as well as
transfer as assistant professor.
(Age 32) Wants more security and
professional growth;
decides to keep going.
Accepts position as associate
professor (Age 43)

Accepts position as
professor (Age 53)
Gets retirement (Age 57)
Performs administrative
tasks as a principal.
Sees more opportunities for
administrative tasks.

Wants to perform social

works in his own village.

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My Own Career Stages

Exploration Period
The exploration stage includes activities like trying to clarify and identify our own
interest and skills, building skills through education or training programs. Modifying or
dealing with constrain such as finances and parental pressure and making initial
decisions on jobs and organization of interest. Exploration is influence by school,
college, university, family, and friends jobs and roles may be tried and rejected false
start may occur, but through all these searching activities the young adult is gaining
knowledge and developing a self-image in terms of possible career goals and direction.

Establishment Period
The establishment stage includes the successful negotiation through the recruiting
process, acceptance of a job, and orientation into the chosen organization. During the
early socialization into an organization an individual develops a sense of the future
likely within that organization socialization is followed by a process of mutual
acceptance. Both the individual and the organization must accept and learn the
capabilities of the other. Open exchange of information and feedback on the
performance of both the individual and organization is necessary.

Maintenance
At this stage, we become an important member of the organization. Our work
assignments are more vital in nature. We at this stage are expected to serve as a role
model and mentor for younger employees the maintenance stage may also be a time of
mid-career crisis, which can be stimulated be events outside the work life such as family
changes, changed financial obligation recognition of limits etc.

Decline
The latest part of a career is called the decline stage. The later years of a career are
characterized as a time of decline. Preparation for retirement may involve psychological
withdrawal from the organization long before physical separation occurs. A reduced
role with less responsibility may be assigned person and work relationship may be
adjusted according to their value to the individual and the amount of effort the
individual is willing to expend on maintaining them.

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 Objective experience
Satisfactory performance in
high school having business
studies group. (Age 14-17)
Graduate in MIS from
university and accept job as
lecturer of university/college.
(Age 25)
Receive training on technical
issues (IT) from institute &
perform writings. (Age 25-27)
Return to university for
PhD/M.phil in MIS (Age 28)
(Age 28)
Receive PhD/M.phil after
successful completion
(age 31)
Get promotion (Age 32)
Receive promotion (Age 38)
Want to go abroad to get
myself introduced with latest
issues (Age 40)
Moves to another
university/institution.
(Age 42)
Subjective experience
Perceives aptitude and
interest in teaching
business subject as well as
information technology.
Enjoy teaching.
Bored; Needs more
stimulation and control
over time.
Enjoy academic studies and
want to perform well.
Enjoy work; look forward
to exciting future.
Want more security and
professional growth; decide
to keep going.
Turned on to the theoretical
as well as practical research
work.
Want to see more
opportunities for research
support things.
Feel its a correct move and
want to perform social
activities.