According to Flippo A career is a sequence of separate but related work activities that provide continuity, order and meaning

g to a persons life. It represents a organised path taken by an individual across time and space.

CAREER PLANNING: Career Planning is the system process by which one selects career goals and the path to these goals. It is a managerial technique for mapping out the entire career of young employees, it requires discovery, development, planned employment and reemployment of talents.

Characteristics of Career Planning: (i) Process of developing human resources. (ii) Managing people, to obtain optimum results. (iii) Career Planning is a continuous process due to an ever changing environment.

Characteristics of Career Planning: iv. Responsibility of an organisation to provide guidance and counseling to its employees in planning their careers and in developing and utilizing their knowledge. v. Basic aim of Career Planning is integration of individual and organizational needs.

Objectives of Career Planning: (i) To attract and retain the right type of persons in the organization. (ii) To map out careers of employees suitable to their ability, and their willingness to be trained and developed for highest positions.

Objectives of Career Planning: iii. To have a more stable work force by reducing labour turnover and absenteeism. iv. To increasingly utilize the managerial talent available at all levels within the organisation.

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To improve employee morale and motivation by matching skills to job requirements and by providing opportunities for promotion. To ensure that promising persons get experiences that will equip them to reach responsibility for which they are able.

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To provide guidance and encouragement that the employees need to fulfill their potential. To achieve higher productivity and organizational development.

Process of Career Planning: 1. Identifying individual needs and aspiration 2. Analyzing career opportunities 3. Identifying match and Mismatch 4. Formulating and implementing strategies 5. Reviewing Career Plans

CAREER COUNSELING

CAREER COUNSELING: Career Planning may require advising and guiding employees in their possible career paths and the direction in which they ought to be heading. Such advising and heading is called career counseling.

Objectives of Career Counseling: i. To provide guidelines that help an individual to understand himself more clearly and develop his own thinking and outlook. ii. To help individuals achieve and enjoy greater personal satisfaction and pleasure.

Objectives of Career Counseling: iii. To enable individuals to study the immediate and personal world in which they live. iv. To help individuals understand the forces and dynamics operating in a system.

Advantages of Career Counseling: (i) Career Planning helps an employee to know the career opportunities available in an organisation. A person comes to know-in advance the level to which he can rise and the potential and aptitude he has.

Advantages of Career Counseling: (ii) This knowledge enables the employees to select the career most suitable to his potential and aptitude. It so encourages him to avail of the training and development facilities in the organization so as to improve his ability to handle new and higher assignments.

Advantages of Career Counseling: (iii) Career Planning helps to retain hard-working and talented employees. Work force becomes stable due to employee turnover. (iv) Reduce the cost of hiring new people.

Advantages of Career Counseling: (v) Career planning is beneficial both to the individual and the organization. (vi) It facilitates organizational development and organizational effectiveness.