Develop a Career Management plan.
The plan should incorporate the following for project.
1. Clearly define your interests, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
2. Identify in which stage of your career you have progressed.
"A Model of Career Development." Use this to assist you in defining your career stage.
Exploration – From the early teens to mid-twenties, people begin to crystallize, specify and implement an occupational choice. Different roles are tried and various occupational options are explored though school, leisure, part-time work and volunteering. “Trial jobs” may be tested before more firmly finding a more stable and appropriate fit.
Establishment – In the mid-twenties through mid-forties, typically a suitable field is selected and efforts are made to secure a long-term place in the chosen career. Young adulthood tends to be a time for stabilizing, consolidating, building momentum and moving up. Obtaining certifications, credentials, and advanced degrees may be the norm.
Maintenance – This stage usually happens in the mid-forties to mid-sixties and is characterized by constancy: 1) Holding on (stagnating or plateauing), or 2) Keeping up (updating or enriching). Continuity, stress, safety and stability tend to be the standard. Sometimes people feel risk adverse with various career options which may lead to frustration or even depression. In middle adulthood we may ask ourselves, “What have I done with my life? or Is this all there is? or even What do I truly want?” For men, state of health or career accomplishment may predominate. Women sometimes perceive this period as an opportunity to pursue new personal or professional goals now that their nurturing role has peaked.
Disengagement – The mid-sixties is typically marked by decelerating from formal employment to finding new roles with a view to retirement. Baby Boomers are teaching us that this stage should be more appropriately named “Re-inventment.” They are completely redesigning the notion of “retirement” preferring to work in some form while pursuing new or renewed outside interests. In later adulthood, there may be a need to assist or mentor younger members of society or seek self-employment.
However, it has limitation due to the rapidly changing nature of work and each person’s own circumstances. Not everyone transitions through these five stages at fixed ages or in the same manner. I have learned in my private practice it is more common nowadays to move back and forth more frequently from the Exploration to Re-inventment stages.
3. Identify your career goals.
4. Establish an action plan to achieve your career goal/s.
Thoroughly discuss all four points listed above. Use key terms from the text.
Two page minimum is required