Directorate of distance education master of business administration

 
Career Planning is an ongoing process through which an 
individual sets career goals and identifies the means to achieve them. As 
a saying goes, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get 
you there”. Self-awareness helps keeping one’s career related decisions 
in harmony with the deep inner values. By suppressing self-awareness, 
some high achievers suffer from a severe sense of deprivation at the 

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end of their career. An individual could also shape one’s own career by 
planning for it and reviewing, renewing and adapting the plan during 
the entire work life. A dependable Career Strategy from an individual’s 
perspective involves the following steps: 
a. 
Preparing a personal profile based on introspection and 
psychometric testing such as Vocational Interest tests and 
personality tests
b. 
Developing professional goals in the form of a mission statement
c. 
Analyzing the external and internal environment influencing 
careers
d. 
Developing strategic career alternatives based on the analyses
e. 
Evaluating alternatives and selection of the one that is most 
attractive 
f. 
Preparing a set of guidelines and milestones for the career plan as 
it is set into action.