1 You approached two executives from your workplace for some advice about career planning. You received the following information: Executive A. 'Career planning is more art than science. Nonetheless, some form of plan can greatly enhance the evaluation of various opportunities and enable you to make better career decisions. A career plan allows you to identify how to use your basic strengths to maximum advantage, set major career objectives and establish immediate milestones to measure personal development and advancement." Executive B. 'A career... is a series of accidental changes of job and shifts of scenery on which you look back later, weaving through the story retroactively some thread of logic that was not visible at the time. If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed - succeed in narrowing your options and closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined." How do these perspectives fit with what we know about job markets and career directions today? Do you favour one perspective over the other, or prefer to blend a bit of both?