CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

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influenced by Information, opportunity and support from Educational, family, work and
other Societal Institutions. The model highlights pattern of activities that will lead to
desirable outcome based on the assumption that it is not imperative that the individuals
follow the same sequence and therefore, may deviate or exclude certain activities.


The model includes the following steps that should be repeated in a cycle:



  1. Career Exploration: collecting information about career and the environment.

  2. Awareness of Self and Environment: get to know about the business
    environment and the strengths and weakness of the individual and values.

  3. Goal Setting: In the light of work expectations and personal values and
    aspirations career goals are designed.

  4. Strategy Development: After identifying the target the model signifies the need
    for developing the strategy for achieving the goal.

  5. Strategy Implementation: At this step progress towards goal is initiated and
    practical field experienced is encountered.

  6. Feedback from work and non-work sources: Besides personal experience, the
    individual requires to take feedback from work and non-work source. This
    feedback is for the purpose to cover those aspects which individuals may miss out
    personally or may viewing unrealistically due to personal biases.

  7. Career Appraisal: Based on the feedback and personal experience career related
    activities are evaluated against the set targets, to know whether the progress
    towards the set goal is taking place or not. If the results are satisfactory the
    strategy implementation continues otherwise amendments are made to the

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