1. SUBJECT:- HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT.
NAME:-CHAITANYA.S.SALUNKE.
ROLL.NO:- 013049. (MBA CORE-C)

2. BOOK PRESENTATION ON:-
PLANNING
YOUR
CAREER
Teach
Yourself
(WENDY HIRSH & CHARLES JACKSON)
www.inaweek.co.uk

3. (WENDY HIRSH & CHARLES
JACKSON) LEADING CAREERS ADVISORS
•Leading experts on career planning,
this book quickly teaches you the
insider secrets you need to know to in
order work your way to where you want
to be.

5. REASONS FOR REVIEWING
YOUR CAREER?

6. WHAT DOES CAREER PLANNING
INVOLVES.
Making a career plan
*Making choices
*Taking action
Learning about self
*Work values
*Job interest
*skills
Learning about jobs
*Types of job
*Identifying options
*Information search

7. Planning Your
Career- IN A WEEK
• Sunday
– What do you want from work?
• Monday
– What kind of job would you enjoy?
• Tuesday
– What are you good at?
• Wednesday
– Identifying your career options.
• Thursday
– Collecting information.
• Friday
– Making choices.
• Saturday
– Taking the first steps.

8. Sunday
What do you want from work?
• MONEY
• GROWTH
• FAME
• EXPERIENCE

9. • EXERCISE 1:
– UNDERSTANDING YOUR WORK VALUES.
NOW IDENTIFY WHICH STATEMENT HAS BEEN
GIVEN THE HIGHEST SORE AND RANK THAT
STATEMENT 1, SECOND HIGHEST SCORE RANT THAT
2 AND SO ON..
THE ORDER IN WHICH THE VALUES ARE RANKED
SHOWS US THE KIND OF REWARDS WE WANT FROM
WORK.

10. MONDAY
WHAT KIND OF JOB WOULD YOU
ENJOY?
• Jobs differ in a wide variety of
ways.
• Now we will try to identify the
sort of work that you would
find interesting.
• Forget weather you have the
– SKILLS
– KNOWLEDGE
– EXPERIENCE
Just concentrate on finding out
what kinds of work you would
enjoy.

11. EXERCISE 2
YOUR WORK Interests

12. Tuesday
What are you good at?
• Having thought about
where your job interest
lies, you now need to
move on to think about
your skills, knowledge
and experience.

13. Identifying your areas of strength
• People: work skills involves
in working with people
might include
– Managing & organizing
people.
– Negotiating with people.
– Teaching.
– Entertaining.
– Understanding other people.
– Supporting & giving help to
people.

14. Identifying your areas of strength
• Things: work skills involved
in making or constructing
things might include
– Manual skills in using tools.
– Working with machinery.
– Ability to understand how
things work.
– Having good hand-eye
coordination.

15. Identifying your areas of strength
• Data: work skills involved in
handling information might
include
– Interpreting a graph
– Working with figures on a
computer.
– Deciding how best to present
and communicate
information.

16. Identifying your areas of strength
• Ideas: work skills associated with being creative might
include
– Designing or adapting things.
– Improvising,
– Being innovative,
– Having interest in ideas & how to develop them.
– Experimenting and investigating.

17. Wednesday
Identifying your career options.
• Learning about yourself by
examining your own
– Values.
– Interests.
– Skills.
– Knowledge and Experience.
• Now its time to turn to the second
major building block of the career
planning framework.

18. • Today, we start by thinking as widely as possible about career
options.
• You may find that some career options which look exciting turn out
to be less attractive or less achievable when you know more about
them.
• You may need to go through the process of generating options and
researching them several times before you move on to make
career action plan.
– What is happening to jobs and careers?
– What kinds of jobs there are?
– Your own career options.

19. Thursday
Collecting information.
• Now you have to draw up a list of
career options, how do you move
towards an action plan?
• It is tempting to move straight to
choosing an option or applying
for jobs. It is also unwise.
• A good deal is to know more
about each of our options before
we are in position to make
judgments about them
• This phase of “job research”
makes all the difference between
good career decisions and poor
ones.

20. The examining points:
• Your information needs.
• Career paths.
• Sources of information on careers and jobs.
• Using information interviews.

21. Friday
Making choices.
• Now, the main task is to pull
together what you have learnt
so far.
• You also need to consider how
well your
– Skills.
– Knowledge.
– Experience.
Match up with those demands by
your options and whether
opportunities are likely to be
available

22. Saturday
Taking the first steps.
• Clarifying types of action required.
• Preparing to present yourself
through CV’s, application forms and
interviews.
• Applying for job and courses.
• Getting support.
• Setting goals and a timetable.
• Monitoring progress.

23. CONCLUSION
• Work is an important part of our lives. We rely
on it for income, but many of us also want
more. We except work to be stimulating, to
use our skills, and to fit in with our other
commitments and interests.