MY DREAM JOB
Organizations develop mission statements to clarify their purpose
and to make public the organization’s goals and values. Strategic plans are
then developed to realize the mission. A company may state that its mission
is to provide the most reliable wireless communication network, then
develop strategic plans to ensure that their customers have few dropped
calls or poor connections.
Individuals have career goals, jobs that they always wanted to have. To
get this dream job, they need to develop a career plan to get that job. The
first step is a personal assessment to discover their abilities, skills, and
interests. Some of this information may already be available in
performance appraisal evaluations or other assessments made by the
employer. The next step is to determine what knowledge and skills are
required for the dream job, so that the employee can make plans to
acquire the needed knowledge and skills. A career is a sequence of related
work experiences and activities, aimed at personal and organizational
goals, through which a person passes during his or her lifetime, that are
partly under the control of the individual and partly under the control of
others. Both individual career management and organizational career
management is correlated with career success (Gould, 1979; Orpen,
1994); career plans with specific goals and