Career Planning Project: Analysing Photography Career Paths

This project delves into the realm of career planning, with a specific focus on the photography profession. It begins by emphasizing the importance of career planning in achieving clarity about future goals and objectives. The project then outlines the steps involved in career planning, from identifying a passion for photography to exploring various career paths such as advertising, event, wildlife, and fashion photography. It details the required qualifications, essential skills (including attention to detail, artistic approach, and communication), and potential challenges. The project also includes an analysis of career paths, a discussion of potential challenges, and a conclusion highlighting the significance of career planning in personal and professional growth. The project concludes by emphasizing the importance of career planning in personal and professional growth and provides references supporting the concepts discussed. The project showcases how to link strengths to career paths and suggests strategies for overcoming challenges.

Career Planning

Introduction
Career planning is one of the essential process which
helps an understanding and analysing who you are so
as to decide where you want to go or what to want to
achieve in the future. It helps in having clarity about
the future goals and objectives.

Importance of career planning
 Career planning helps an individual to have
clarity about their career goals
 It helps an individual to have knowledge of
different career opportunities available to him.
 Career planning helps an individual to select
the right career according to their interest,
lifestyle, scope of self development and so on.

Describe a given professional field
 The professional field chosen for my career
path is photography.
 Photography is one of the growing career paths
with increasing number of employment
opportunities.

Responsibilities of a photographer
 Managing their
photographic
equipments and tools.
 Selecting suitable
location
 Taking photos
 Editing and selecting
right picture

Steps to Take
Step 1: Find
a passion for
photography
Step
2: Academic
Training
Step
3: Internship
Step
4: Career
Paths

Discuss and analyse your career paths
The various roles that
photographer can take
into consideration are as
follow:
 Advertising
photographer
 Event and concert
photographer
 Wildlife photographer
 Fashion photographers:
 Aerial photographers

Qualification required
 Diploma in Photography
 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography
and Digital Imaging
 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts and
Photography)

Skills required
 Eye for Details
 Artistic Approach:
 Concentration Skills
 Communication Skills
 Team Working Skills
 Knowledge of
Photography

Graph to illustrate career paths
BA in Photography
(Media & Mass
Communication)
MA in Photography
(Media & Mass
Communication
Diploma Certificate
Photography

Identify strengths and link them with possible career paths
 Communication
skills
 Team work skills
 Concentration skills

Identify possible challenges and how to overcome them with strengths
 Not getting the equal opportunities due to
increasing competition among colleagues.
 Not getting client easily.
 Small job market for the photographers.

Conclusion
From the above presentation it can be concluded that
career planning plays an very essential role in the
personal and professional development of an
individual, it helps an individual to get clarity of his
career goals and the career path to be selected by him
on the basis of his interest, lifestyle, scope of self
development and so on, it is very essential step for an
individual towards future growth and self
development.

References
 Crowley, J.L. and High, A.C., 2018. Parents’
information seeking during adolescent career
development: a test of the theory of motivated
information management. Journal of Applied
Communication Research, 46(3), pp.348-367.
 Hartung, P.J. and Santilli, S., 2018. My career
story: Description and initial validity
evidence. Journal of Career Assessment, 26(2),
pp.308-321.

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