Performance Management
Many employers include a career planning component in their performance management process. Employees communicate their short term and long term goals and work with their manager to identify actionable and measurable steps towards these goals. This is an important part of the performance review process for high performers as it gives them a chance to push for a promotion and document the steps that are required. This type of career planning can be highly political and is confined to the opportunities available at your employer. As such, performance management related career planning isn't always useful for identifying your true aspirations and plan.Career Management
Mid-career professionals may develop their own career plans beyond those known to their employer. This is typically a process of determining your goals, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to identify a few actionable steps that may improve your career.Career Change
Professionals considering a career change may develop a career plan that is a back-to-basics investigation of what they want to do with the rest of their life including areas such as work-life balance. When goals are identified, career planning can then proceed to analysis of opportunities and risk.Career Start
Inexperienced individuals such as students may plan for a future career by thinking about their goals, interests, abilities and personality. It typically requires guidance to map these factors to potential opportunities. At this stage, multiple unique opportunities may be listed with action steps designed to explore the waters or learn things that are useful to a broad range of professions. Alternatively, an individual may develop high confidence in a target career and develop an action plan to reach this goal.| Overview: Career Planning | ||
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Definition | The process of developing goals and an action plan for an individual's career. | |
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