Career Management

Career Management Techniques

Ruthia Reddish

HRM 531 Human Capital Management

Gloria Davis, MA, SPHR

March 31, 2010

Career Management Techniques

|The economy has severely changed how corporations do business and has forced individuals to redefine their work lives. |

|Private industry is cutting costs through massive restructuring measures as down-sizing, re-organizing and out-sourcing. |

|These practices have resulted in less job stability for employees. No longer are there guarantees of long-term employment,|

|salary increases and upward mobility within an organization. Neither can employees now assume that the organizations they |

|work for will automatically provide health and vacation benefits. A new technique called career management has emerged and|

|people are redefining their careers. |

|Career Self-Reliance |

|Career self-reliance can be defines as “the attitude of being self-employed, whether inside or outside an organization” |

|(Collard, Epperheimer & Saign, 1996). The ability to actively manage one’s work life and learning in a rapidly changing |

|environment. The underlying assumption is clear that the individual must think of me as my own corporation. |

|Career self-reliance teaches you that it is important to adapt to change. Everyone needs to change their mindset from job |

|security to career resilience. Workers should no longer expect their employers to take care of them, but now must take |

|personal responsibility for managing their work lives. “What we are doing now is returning to what we have always known as |

|a country: we create our own future...we are in charge of our own destiny - whether it is a company, financial security, or|

|one’s career” (Career Action Center, 1996)....