CAREER DEVELOPEMENT

By Samuel Asante, Post on September 2, 2020

Career is the job or series of jobs that you choose to do during your working life, especially if you think of getting better jobs and earn high salaries. Career makes one move from job to job when he feels that the current working condition is not good. Career is also anything one does to earn a living in life. Is what one discovers, develop and pursue as activities. For example, he is hoping for a career in business accounting, nursing, management consultancy etc.

People may have different careers. That is, one doing many things to earn a living. For you to do variety of jobs to earn more money, you must have different knowledge, abilities, skills and strength in all the potential areas you want to do. In one way or the other everybody has a career; something one does to earn a living. Career Development is the process that forms a person’s work identity. It is an important and significant part of human development and spans over the individual’s entire lifetime, beginning from when the individual first becomes aware of how people make a living. Career development talks about how one sit down and think about what to do for life, and this entails a lots of critical analyses.

Stages in Career Development

Knowing these stages of career development will give you the confidence to navigate the entire process successfully. The following are the stages:

• Stage 1. Assessment stage
• Stage 2. Investigation stage
• Stage 3. Preparation stage
• Stage 4. Commitment stage
• Stage 5. Retention stage
• Stage 6. Transition stage

According to career experts, people are bound to change careers 5 to 7 times in their lifetime. If you have changed careers a couple of times already or if you are planning to switch career now, there is no reason to hesitate because it is a normal process that people go through. What is significant is that, you have proper career management to make sure you eventually find a career that satisfies you.