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Personal action planning

Term

Personal action planning

Definition

The process of mapping out the necessary steps that an individual needs to take and the services s/he might need to use in order to achieve an identified educational, vocational or personal goal. The process might be conducted by the individual on their own, in conjunction with someone else (e.g. a career counsellor) or by using a proforma/template or online tool.

Comment

The definition has been extended to include personal goals as well as educational and vocational ones.

Source

Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary. Result of Leonardo da Vinci programme project “Overcoming Intercultural and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and Counselling” (project No LT/03/B/F/LA-171023). Available from Internet: http://glossary.ambernet.lt/main.php?lang=eng#

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Career management

Term

Career management

Definition

An ongoing process of preparing, implementing, and monitoring career plans.

Comment

Sometimes career management is carried out by the individual on their own; but in some situations career management involves others, such as an individual’s employer, working together with the individual.

Source

Storey, W.D. (1976). Career Dimensions I, II, III, and IV. Croton on Hudson, New York: General Electric Company. Cited in Hall, D.T. & Associates (1986). Career Development in Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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Career development

Term

Career development

Definition

The lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure and transitions in order to move towards a personally determined and evolving future.

Comment

Career development is also used to describe the outcome of this process.
Other definitions include:
• The total constellation of economic, sociological, psychological, educational, physical and chance factors that combine to shape one’s career (Sears, 1982).
• The continuous planning carried out to advance a person's career based on experience and on any training undertaken to upgrade qualifications or to acquire new ones (UNESCO).

Source

Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary. Result of Leonardo da Vinci programme project “Overcoming Intercultural and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and Counselling” (project No LT/03/B/F/LA-171023). Available from Internet: http://glossary.ambernet.lt/main.php?lang=eng#

Canadian Career Development Foundation (2002). Career Development: A Primer and a Glossary.

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ELGPN Glossary, process, management, transition, career, planning, development