A great need continues today to integrate career planning programs with success planning programs. Career planning programs help individuals discover their career goals, provide reasons to qualify for advancement or simply keep their skills currently as employability in a new economy places with more responsibility on individuals to remain competitive in a dynamic labor market. Success planning programs help to ensure the continuity of talent needed to preserve economic growth and organizational viability.

Integrating career planning and success planning is essential because plans give individuals goals to develop themselves . Success plans provide organizations ways to focus on meeting their talent needs over time and provide direction to development efforts. Career plans give individuals reasons to develop themselves while success plans shape the efforts of organizational leaders to identify the talent needs of the organization and systematically develop that talent. 

The book is helpful to students and teachers of B.A., B.Com., BBA, BSW, B.Ed., M.A., M.Com., M.Sc., M.Ed. MBA, CA, ICWA an CS and those involved in social work especially with reference to rural areas of our country.

I am grateful to my friends, colleagues and students who were source of inspiration to me during writing this book. I am also thankful to the editorial team of my publisher who has been of immense help in improving the quality of manuscript of the book. I am appreciative of the critical comments of my readers.