Career Development: Strategies, Linkages, and Overview Report

This report provides an overview of career development, defining it as a process of building one's vocation within an organization. It highlights the linkages between career development and individual goals, emphasizing the importance of self-realization, skill assessment, and the acquisition of new competencies. The report further explores various career development strategies, including those driven by both organizations and individuals, such as language learning, leadership development, self-evaluation, feedback, and recognition. The conclusion underscores the crucial role of career development, suggesting that when employees are satisfied with their career paths, organizational objectives are more effectively achieved.

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CAREER DEVELOPEMENT

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Table of Contents
Overview...............................................................................................................................................3
Linkages................................................................................................................................................3
Career development strategies...............................................................................................................4
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................4
References.............................................................................................................................................6

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Overview
The term career development is the arrangement of various processes that are active
in life and the helps in development of the career. Career development is also defined as the
procedure of building up one's vocation in inter as well as intra organization. It includes
preparing on new abilities, moving to higher occupation duties, making a lifelong change in
the position of the career with respect to the same company, moving to an alternate
association or going into business (Vondracek, Lerner & Schulenberg, 2019).
Linkages
Majorly the development of the career is directly linked with the objective and the
goals that are prepared by the individual. The process begins with the self-realization and the
overall evaluation of both the areas, such as areas of interest and area of the attributes and
capability of an individual. Once the process of the evaluation is completed the skills and the
expertise is required to perform the tasks and reach the level of the competency in order to
achieve the goals and the targets (McMahon, 2016).

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The development of the career is legitimately connected to a person's development
and fulfilment and henceforth ought to be overseen by the individual and not left to the
business. The advancement in career enables a person to become an expert not only in terms
of the professional behaviour but also in terms of the overall personality. Adapting new
aptitudes like initiative, on board management, great administration, correspondence towards
executives, and the overall management of the team for example additionally helping a
worker create and shape their profession (Kavitha, 2017).
Career development strategies
There are several strategies which help in the development of career and give an edge or
self-confidence towards the career that is being pursued. The improvement of a person's
profession is driven by a few variables. Systems to improve somebody's career can be driven
either by the organization through association advancement or by the individual oneself as
well (Karrera, 2017).
 Companies can help the individuals in learning new language or skill and also assists
in leadership development.
 Employees can boost their career opportunities through repetitive efforts and constant
evaluation and investigation of their own strengths and weaknesses.
 While asking for the feedback can also be counted as one of the typical strategy that
can benefit the individuals in reaching their individual as well team goals (Karrera,
2017).
 The constant motivation in the form of rewards and the appreciation in terms of
recognition is another strategy that can be helpful in enhancing the career prospective.

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Conclusion
From the overall discussion it can be analysed that the career development is one of
the crucial elements; in anyone’s life and with the help if proper guidance and direction the
career can be moulded in altogether a different aspect. The career improvement framework is
an ordinary movement indicates how is the association's needs are connected with the
person's needs so when the representatives are fulfilled with their career, the association will
accomplish its objectives and goals effectively and efficiently.

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References
Karrera, M. (2017). 10 Most Effective Career Planning Strategies. Retrieved from
https://www.careeraddict.com/career-planning-strategies
Kavitha, V. (2017). The relationship and effect of role overload, role ambiguity, work-life
balance and career development on work stress among call center executives of
business process outsourcing (BPO) in Selangor (Doctoral dissertation, Universiti
Utara Malaysia).
McMahon, M. (Ed.). (2016). Career counselling: Constructivist approaches. Routledge.
Vondracek, F. W., Lerner, R. M., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2019). Career development: A life-
span developmental approach. Routledge.