Career Development: Theories, Models, and Applications

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CAREER DEVELOPMENT
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Career Development
Assessment 2.
Introduction.
Career is a person’s work-related and other appropriate experiences, which are both internal and
external in a firm. Occupation growth is a series of activate or even lifelong processes of
developing another person’s career. Occupation growth denotes to managing one's occupation in
a firm scenario through learning, work, vacation, and changes to move toward a personally
unwavering and developing ideal future.
1. Contemporary career development theories
Career developmental theories.
a. Donald super growth theory expresses life and occupation growth phases and allocates to
them sub-stages with precise occupational characteristics. Individuals gain a sense of their
interest and talents by discovering career characters through schooling, work and leisure
activities. At formation stage, the careers peak, and maintenance stage follows where VET
workers seek constancy in their roles. The decline phase involves the older workforces
decreasing throughput as they retire.
b. Social cognitive theory.
Social cognitive theory makes use of self-efficacy where individuals believe in themselves and
attain the abilities to impact success (Turner 2018). Moreover, workforces change roles and
priorities that later influence their career decisions.
c. Trait theory.
The theory stresses the impression of modal individual orientation to describe the procedure
which hereditary and individuals are responses to their surroundings impart attitudes, and actions

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that impact career choice (Novikova 2013). An example includes where an individual becomes
comfortable with routine and self-directed activities. Individuals are dependable workers who
gravitate toward administrative careers.
2. Models
The 5-step occupation growth model offers an inclusive tactic with skill growth and learning
results that exhibit the need capabilities for career preparation and management.
Assessment evaluates fitness and focuses on the career. Exploration entails searching for
additional facts through survey and research options. Preparation involves creating a strategic
plan, preparing for employment, executing plans, and conducting a search at the implementation
stage. The decision-making phase evaluates options and making of informed decisions. Career
growth Framework offers a structured process to learning and growth that provides guiding
principles for occupational therapy.
3. Code of professional conduct
The code of professional conduct safeguards the welfare of clients of career growth services
provided by VET members, the integrity of the VET and their profession. Growing and
sustaining practitioner excellence is a strategic goal for any business. An example is accepting
responsibility for the VET professional actions and resolutions and applying high professional
ideals of significance and appropriateness in guidance to clients. Establishing, maintaining and
developing firms’ relationships based on confidence, trust and respect are some of the ethic
examples.
Moreover, a well-prepared code of ethic clarifies the firm’s mission, values, and principles that
link the VET with the standards of professional conduct (Leipziger 2017).
4. Regulatory requirements, policies, guidelines, standards, and resources.