Career Planning – Say No to Your Intuition .Parts 1

 By Shuki Stauber

 

 
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While it used to be that a sophisticated organization would have been proud to present its employees with a career and promotion track, today the employee's personal development is his own responsibility. Organizations have become less paternalistic, both in terms of directing the worker and taking care of his needs. Their control over employees and the work they do, even within the company itself, is diminishing.
Today more and more people are taking responsibility for their personal and professional development, both as part of the organization where they are employed and of course in the outside world.
Shuki Stauber and Dr. Motti Neuman, a psychologist and manager of the career counseling department at Pilat-Nekudat Mifneh screening and placement, discuss the right way to approach career planning.

Shuki Stauber: Feelings and intuition play an important role in life and in career planning. But it's not a good idea to give them complete reign over processes of change.

Dr. Motti Neuman: That's right. Sometimes intuition can direct someone to make big changes, but not necessarily effective ones, while gradual change and building a course of action based on small, carefully weighed steps would bring the goal within reach more quickly. A person can be infused with a desire to make a change and choose a direction totally different from the one pursued so far without really assessing whether it's the right direction to take. The reason is because in order to sever ourselves from work we've been involved in for a long period of time, we enlist and mobilize great energies. Sometimes this energy takes us too far. Also, entering a totally new area of activity that leads to performing an entirely different set of tasks appears to be a surer guarantee of the change we're hoping for.