CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Career Development

“Successful careers develop… when people are prepared for opportunities.”~ Harvard Business Review ~

The Philosophy of career development:

·        Employees are encouraged to develop in ways that link to the strategic objectives of the organization. Career Development is a partnership between the employee, the supervisor or manager, and the organization.

·        Employees – are responsible for proactively managing their careers, increasing their skills, experience, and maintaining a high level of performance.

·        Supervisors/Managers – are responsible for actively encouraging and supporting staff in their career planning, using available resources, tools, and processes to help employees find the best match between their abilities and the needs of the organization.

·        The Organization– is responsible for creating and providing opportunities for growth based on performance excellence, talent, and potential, and for encouraging mobility between job families and departments.

 Accomplishing your future career dream through a life-long learning by investing resources is a continuing process that allows you to adapt to the changing demands of our dynamic economy. In other achieving our career dreams one need to embraces various concepts: Self-awareness, career development planning/career exploration, life-long learning, and networking.

Self-Awareness: Scan yourself to uncover your interests, skills, personality traits, and values. You can start by asking yourself the following questions:

·        Who are you?

·        What interests you?

·        What do you like to do?

·        What are you good at doing?

·        What do you value, what's important to you?

·        What are your special assets, skills, and abilities?

·        Who needs the talents, skills, and abilities you can provide?

·        What work environment and/or arrangements make sense for you?

·        What activities do I find fun, motivating, interesting, and enjoyable?

·        What skills do you need to acquire to develop and manage your career?

·        What personal style or characteristics do I have that is important to me in the work place?

Also ask friends, family members, co-workers, professors, or mentors if they see the same qualities in you as you see in yourself.

A career Development strategy is a process designed to help you to:

·        Take the time to think about your job/career goals

·        Focus on developing knowledge and skills for your current position and for future job opportunities

·        Think about how you can utilize efficiently your strengths, talents, experience, and motivation – how can you use all of these aspects to increase your passion for work!

·        Be the architect of your own career development plan – write your goals, make a decision to have a plan for your career development

·        Discuss your career development goals with your manager

·        Once you have made a career decision, you need to plan how you will carry out that decision. A career plan provides vision, structure, direction, and motivation for your career management process.