Future Work Skills Career developmental theory 2022

Running head: FUTURE WORK SKILLS
Future Work Skills
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Career developmental theory
Career development theories talk about the different paths to achieve desired careers
and how one must develop their skills and capabilities in order to succeed in life. The career
developmental theories also explain how certain qualities and competencies makes a person
better fit for certain jobs. The happenstance theory by Krumboltz (2009) argues that the
selection process of an individual’s career need not be planned beforehand. Through different
career based activities and exercises one can understand the strengths and weaknesses that
they have and are more likely to choose careers that are more suitable to them. There are four
propositions made by the author that ascertain the career counselling and development. The
theory is based on the idea that career destiny of people cannot be predicted beforehand and
career development should not be matching the career requirements with personal
characteristics. Through the analysis of my interests and reactions to the exercises that I took,
I believe that the job of an operation manager would be most suitable for me.
Future work skills
Through my understanding of the developmental stage and my present target career, I
believe that I will need to develop Novel and Adaptive Thinking. This skill will help me in
thinking about innovative solutions to problems that arise in workplace and create responses
that go far beyond the set rules of the organization. This skill enhances my critical thinking
and decision making capabilities that is needed for successfully managing the operations of
an organization (Davies, Fidler & Gorbis, 2011). Decision making has many pitfalls. Most of
the times, necessary information are not available and we are influenced by our biases.
Developing this skill will enable me to avoid those biases and take effective decisions.
Problem solving skills will help me in finding out viable solutions to problems and manage
people in critical situations. This ability also gives me the ability to manage conflict.