Career Development

Career development is important to organizations for retaining and developing human resources to achieve organizational goals. It is also important to individuals because careers represent their entire lives in the work settings. Career development is supported and sponsored by individuals and organizations. From an individual’s point of view, career development is an ongoing process of planning and action toward personal work and life goals. Career development programs can be conducted throughout an individual’s life stages by career counselors, counseling psychologist, teachers, placement specialists, and mentors or managers. A career development intervention is a deliberate action aimed at enhancing some aspects of a person’s career, including influencing the career decision-making process, clarifying career goals, and skill building activities. Career development has been criticized on several points. One is that the term “career development” has no universally accepted definition to date. Controlled Vocabulary Terms Decision making; Human resource management; Organizational career development programs