CAREER MAPPING

Career Mapping is a process of searching for a career

development process that help people manage their careers
actively

Career Mapping is a comprehensive process and system that brings into focus personally meaningful criteria
for making career decisions. Forward thinking organizations are serious about providing their people with career
development tools that enable active career management.

The tool provides support through three components:

Map: Charting the course for satisfying careers

Help individuals identify their current career positions and desired destinations.
Evaluate past career positions and what individuals liked and disliked about them.
The Map helps people set goals for their careers and six other aspects of life.

Compass: Marshalling resources

• Support individuals identify resources that will help them reach their career destinations.
• Help employees identify their social, practical, information and creative abilities and increase their
awareness of their personal style and how it influences their careers.
• This component helps individuals examine their values.

Navigating: Moving forward

• Help your people compare their career options and formulate a concrete action plan founded on their
unique resources and aspirations.

Develop stronger employee commitment through useful career development

strategies

Career mapping process is based on the fundamental principle that individuals actively construct their own
reality.
We recognize the individual to be the best expert for his or her own life. Each person’s unique skills and
resources can successfully be applied to many different roles.
Assessments help people clarify how they can thoughtfully shape successful careers actively.

Benefits of the process of active self-reflection

Career Mapping is a 21st century solution that will inspire individuals to actively navigate their careers in the
changing conditions of the global market place. It provides:

• Insight and critical thinking

• Systematic process for exploring inward
• Appreciative approach that focuses attention on strengths
• Foundation for a dialogue with clients about personal meaning
• Practical career skills for life-long career development
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Empowering dialogues about career and life

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