2.11.7.6: Shortage of Competent Career Counselors: As career counseling is not taken
seriously by many organizations and by individuals themselves, therefore, many
professionals are hesitant to enter the field of career counseling as specialists. It is usually
taken up as a side job of the HR professional. As HR professional usually preoccupied
with the thought to align the HR with the business strategy so they fail to see staff
development from the individuals’ point of view. This results in planning HRD with
respect to that specific business of such organization. Eventually, causing to over rule the
consideration for the needs of the individuals if they are no longer associated with that
specific business goals.
2.11.7.7:Lack of Sufficient Information: because any proper organized source of career
related information about the market is not available to the individuals so they are unable
to evaluate the situation and accordingly plan it properly. Most of the times career
planning of the individuals are mostly based on assumptions about the market situation.
There are certain websites that provide information about the job opportunities but very
few organizations are enlisted with them.
2.11.7.8: Requires Continuous Monitoring: Given that the market situation changes
rapidly, the process of career development should be monitored frequently in a planned
way. Though the process of performance monitoring continues but that is purely from the
perspective of the task assigned to the individuals. As the employees are most of the time
busy with their assigned tasks, so they normally loose focus to monitoring their careers.
Gillie and Gillie in a discussion on ‘The Educational Social and Economic Value of
Informed and Considered Career Decisions’ argue that:
Career guidance professionals may facilitate the career development
process, or individuals may engage in the process on their own. Not all
people will engage in all steps, and the sequence may vary; but however
obtained, informed and considered career decisions represent a match of
person and work in which the individual’s skills, interests, values, beliefs,