Career Planning

By
Ramanathan S
th
4 Semester, MBA- Natural Resources Management,
ASNRSD
Career ???
Career Quotes from the Gurus….
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your
heart to give yourself to it
- Lord Buddha

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as

the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard
hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.
- B.C. Forbes

Question: THE BEST career advice given to the young is ?

Answer: Find out what you like doing best and get someone
to pay you for doing it.?
- Katherine Whitehorn
An Ideal Career Planning Cycle

Key Stages of a Project Planning

Cycle:

Knowing one’s Interest and Aptitude

Identifying available Resources

Setting goals to maintain focus

Developing Positive attributes

Employability skills
Discovering Self- Knowing One’s
Interest and Aptitude
Understanding the Real Self.
Self Evaluation, getting to know
one’s capabilities and potentials.
5 Best ways to Understand Self
Accept Your Strength And
Weaknesses- Self Acquaintance
and Acceptance
Figure Out What You Want In Life-
Vision
Know Your State Of Mind- Mental
Harmony or Clarity of thought
Analyze Yourself- Fine Tuning
Requirements or Re-mounding
Parameters
Hit The Road To Self-Discovery-
Implementations to obtain a better
self
 Resource Planning and
Assessment
Resources are the main capital for any process to be executed with
great success rate, these capital include

 Social
 Human
 Physical
 Natural
 Financial

Thus constant analysis has to be performed to analyze and ascertain

the requirement of resources and planning policies to effectively
manage these available resources to optimize their usage.
 Goal, Milestones Setting
 Clarity of thought, formulating mission and vision statements.

 Planning and setting short term goals and milestones

 Devising ways and routes to attain set goals and milestones through
ethical and moral virtues

 Refining, re-setting and monitoring the goal attainment process

 Focusing short term goals to match with long term objectives,

adaptation with learnings from short term missions
Developing Positive attributes
Positive attributes and optimistic virtues

 Time Management

 Logical and lateral thinking

 Emotional Quotient

 People centered thought process

 Optimistic approach

 Planning and Monitoring Ideologies

Employability Skills Management
Improving employability potential as per market requirements, to
increase employability potential

 Computer Expertise

 Technical Expertise

 Managerial Expertise

 Team building and conflict management

 Interpersonal Communication and Relationship Management

 Benchmarking and peer performance appraisal

 Personal and Professional life balancing practices

 Thank You for your Co-operation

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants;

this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my
career.
- Charlie Chaplin