Career Exploration and GoalSetting

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Career Exploration and Goal-Setting

• Your Conversation

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Occupational Choice

• Collection and analysis of information
• Information about self values, interests,
  attributes, attitudes, skills, talents
• Information about the environment opportunities
  and obstacles

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Why important?

• The more extensive career exploration the better
  job choice and organization fit
• Many people do not have a clear understanding of
  what they really want from a job and from life
  mid-life crisis, career stress, unhappiness
• Many peoples insights into their talents is
  incomplete, others may overestimate their
  strengths
• People develop expectations about jobs and
  organizations that are not realistic

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Career Competencies

• What do you need to know, do or be in order to
  have a successful career?
• Arthurs knowing - why, how and whom
• Brooklyn-Derr Getting ahead

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Knowing why

• Values
• Interests
• Motivation
• Meaning-How do we define successful?
• Objective
• Subjective

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Objective Knowing Why

• Status
• Power
• Autonomy
• Flexibility
• Likes and dislikes

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Subjective Knowing Why

• Meaningful/ Purposeful work
• Work that needs doing
• Creating Employment
• Promoting constructive use of technology
• Preserving the Environment
• Creating positive changes in the workplace
• Contributing to stress and work/life balance
  management
• Contributing to diversity management
• Redistributing wealth

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Knowing whom

• Relating
• Networking
• Individual
• Organisational

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Knowing How

• Technical and managerial know-how
• skills
• abilities
• emotional intelligence
• combination of talent, self-efficacy,
  goal-setting, experience and training

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Knowing how

• Talent
• Self-Efficacy
• Goal-setting
• Experience
• Paid and non-paid work
• Training

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Brooklyn Derr- Success orientations

• Getting ahead
• How to get ahead
• Benefits and costs
• Managing getting ahead individuals
• Getting secure
• Getting free
• Getting high
• Getting balanced

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Exploration instruments

• Individual assessment instruments
• SSII, VPI, SDS, based on Holland
• Myers-Briggs
• Card Sorts etc etc etc

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Career goal setting

• Desired career-related outcome a person intends
  to attain
• Goals regulate human actions
• increase effort
• give direction to effort
• produce higher levels of persistence or
  commitment
• a specific goal is a prerequisite for formulating
  a strategy

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Inability to set goals leads to career indecision
- causes

• Lack of information about self
• Lack of information about the organization
• Lack of information on the job-market place
• Lack of self-confidence
• Decisional paralysis
• Conflict in role demands
• Situational constraints