Name- Dishari Poddar

Subject- Human Resource Management

Subject Code- BBA 503
Topic- Career Planning
TERM PAPER
 Career Planning
Career planning is the process of the personal development in the
sphere of business relying on the achieved knowledge and personal skills.
The process of career planning is quite difficult and requires much time,
because the person is supposed to be able to evaluate her opportunities
objectively and think what she wants to achieve in her life. A career is a
long way which resembles a ladder.

The person can climb this ladder for dozens of years reach the highest
points earning much money and embodying all her dreams. Of course,
the process of career planning requires responsibility and ambitiousness.
One should know about his strong and weak sides which would help of
prevent from career building, so the person is expected to set all its targets
and desires and do her best to make her dreams come true. The process
of career planning starts from the step of self-development. One should
devote much time to education, training and improvement of the skills
which can be called the useful ones.

Objectives of Career Planning:

The major objectives of career planning are as follows:
1. To identify positive characteristics of the employees.

2. To develop awareness about each employee’s uniqueness.

3. To respect feelings of other employees.

4. To attract talented employees to the organization.

5. To train employees towards team-building skills.

6. To create healthy ways of dealing with conflicts, emotions, and

stress.
Benefits of Career Planning:
1. Career planning ensures a constant supply of promotable
employees.

2. It helps in improving the loyalty of employees.

3. Career planning encourages an employee’s growth and
development.

4. It discourages the negative attitude of superiors who are

interested in suppressing the growth of the subordinates.

5. It ensures that senior management knows about the calibre

and capacity of the employees who can move upwards.

6. It can always create a team of employees prepared enough to

meet any contingency.

7. Career planning reduces labour turnover.

8. Every organization prepares succession planning towards which

career planning is the first step.

Career Planning and Employee Performance

Employees are the valuable assets of the firm and it cannot be
wasted in vain and they should not be left on their own intentionally.
Every employee in the firm or organization is not well equipped with
all sorts of strengths and capabilities of finishing every task up to
mark. Letting them to carry on for every tasks is to put their
employment at stake which is destructive and harsh not only for the
employee himself but also for the environment in which they
work(Hughes &Karp, 2004). Some fresh or junior employees who are
least aware of the techniques of performing their job and settling
themselves in their work environment, they need care, support and
proper planning at the start of their career to provide healthy
nourishment to their on-going job (Witko et al., 2004). Every
employee should be made aware of importance of their existence
among any team or group of the firm and if, their realization of such
sense does not approach to the management then level of their skills
and abilities cannot be improved through proper management
response.

Conclusion
In current and modern era Career Planning has been the focus of the
many researchers and they targeted various aspects where it can
bring the change to create the difference from monotonous old and
least productive methods. People from around the globe are
consistently working and flourishing the concept of career planning,
broadening and spreading its concepts and values. Career Planning
has an overwhelming influence over the academic institutions and
their activities as it starts from adolescents and continue till work life
experience.