MGMT 2430 Chapter 9: Career Development
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Career a series of work related positions, paid or unpaid, that help a person to grow in job skills, success, and fulfillment. Career development the lifelong series of activities that contribute to a. Career planning the deliberate process through which someone becomes aware of personal skills, interests, knowledge, motivations, and other characteristics person"s career exploration, establishment, success, and fulfillment. Occupational orientation the theory that there a 6 basic personal orientations that determine the sorts of careers to which people are drawn. Career anchor a concern or value that a person will not give up if a choice. New approaches to career development has to be made. The individual: individual must accept responsibility for career, requires: Self-promotion: networking an organized process whereby the individual arranges and conducts a series of face-to-face meetings with their colleagues and contacts, plus individuals that they recommend.