PERSONAL CAREER ASSESMENT

Personal Career Assessment



Abstract

This paper talks about the assessment of the personal career from variegated aspects. First of all the paper discusses the career theory. The theory that is selected for this paper is social cognitive career theory. The discussion about the positive and negative points of the selected theory is done in the paper. The theory is then evaluated for its implication. After the discussion, about the theory the paper talks about the personal career development. With regards to the individual career the paper first discusses career. Expertise, education, skills and competencies those are required in the chosen career are discussed in exceptional detail. After this discussion, the chosen career is evaluated for personal suitability. The most intriguing aspect of the paper is the discussion about proper plan of the career choice. This plan discusses how to make a career choice.

Personal Career Assessment

Introduction

Life is beautiful! To enjoy every aspect of life it is imperative to plan out each and every phase of life. This planning and evaluation extends an opportunity for an individual not only to know him or her in a profound way, but it also facilitates an individual to make decisions of life in an easy and rational way. Such planning and preparation is very common in the field of career and personal development. The career planning is the process of creating, executing and evaluating succession planning scenarios. In career planning, one can identify attainable career goals and develop career plans for themselves. Everyone should spend some time planning their career. The career planning is not like planning for a party. It does not happen automatically, and ends after that, instead, it requires ongoing planning. Career planning may involve the process of making the career which in turn can include enhancing skills or expand your professional network or learn more about your domain, or talk to someone else about your potential future. The main objective of this paper is to discuss one career development theory and its implication on personal career in a comprehensive way.

Social cognitive Career Theory

As stated by Hackett, there are only a few decisions that have a profound influence on the lives of human beings such as the choice of a career or profession. That is why in the last twenty years, it has been observed that many theoretical models in the field of psychology devoted to the study and explanation of the sense of vocation makes an attempt to provide a more comprehensive and clear know how of phenomena of this area. Among these numerous theoretical models, the one model or theory that is highlighted most because of its effectiveness is social cognitive theory. This theory pays emphasis on the role of perceived self-efficacy as a mediator between other determinants of cognitive competence such as skills, interests and achievements of previous runs and subsequent performance. Self-efficacy has been defined as judgments of people about their abilities to achieve certain levels of performance (Albert and Luzzo, ...