UNIT VII AN INTERVIEW ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT Name Course Tutors Name Date UNIT VII AN INTERVIEW ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT The following is a comprehensive interview between the student (ME) and a friend who is a human resource manager (HRM). ME Hi Mr. what is your understanding of career development HRM Hi to you, the idea of career development begins in the process when the individual realizes that the work he does can have significance and is a gratifying experience, which assists them to become enlightened and self-actualized individuals. For this reason, they undertake every little step to realize the best out of what they do, in stages. ME What a comprehensive explanation, so what stage in career development to you place yourself HRM Ideally, there are four stages of consideration. The first is self-assessment where the individual realizes who they are, this is followed by career exploration that is, where is the individual going, the third stage is action planning this involves asking oneself how to get there. The last step, where I happen to belong, is career management stage, which involves formulating ideas on how to maintain my peak performance (Noe, 2010). ME Great, so