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Career Planning And Talent Management

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Part of succession planning; identify successors and ability to move up.






2. Schein - concept where career decisions based on talents - motives and values; your 'anchors' or comfort zone.






3. Pre-analysis (organization - cost-benefit - etc..); Analysis completed; Project plan - prioritize titles/functions - develop implementation strategy






4. More traditional; teacher focused; Japanese culture; formal






5. Affect success of the organization; improve the bottom line.






6. Top down - pool identified - managers recommend; Bottom up - manager names successors to positions; career plan - internal growth; Market driven - hire-away from competitors; Future driven - hire to future needs which have been identified






7. Contract - temp - job sharing - OT - outsourcing






8. More experienced person provides constructive advice and feedback; goal to improve performance.






9. Martson; Uses 4 dimensions: Dominance - Influence - Supportiveness - Conscientiousness






10. Formal; Cross-functional - temp assignment in different department; Cross-country - temp assignment in another country






11. Career development practice - more experienced person shares wisdom/experience to a protege. Three types: one-on-one - group - virtual






12. Analysis that is conducted to understand target population - demographics; all prior to job analslys - training or other interventions.






13. Process to ensure continuity in key leadership positions.






14. Divid job into required competencies or skills: mgrial/admin - supervisory - functional






15. Resource for career exploration; person seeking career change asks questions.






16. First step in building a strategic plan; values critical to the organization.






17. Analyze organization - values and culture of organization; Cost benefit analysis - is the effort worth the cost?; Audience analysis - who is the target?; Environmental analysis - SWOT






18. Individual Development Plans; Plans for improvement on the current job or job advancement; usually integrated with a performance appraisal.






19. Strenths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats; Analysis tool - part of strategic planning; identify factors within and outside an organization.






20. Learner centered; informal; impersonal






21. Examine a single task within a job and break down into 2+ steps; time consuming; lots of detail.






22. Workforce planning built based on strategic plan.






23. Less accurate way picturing a person's personalitiy; found on internet sites.






24. Starting at age 18 - people move from career exploration through events (including education) to a specific career path.

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25. Climb-the-ladder (traditional); spiral - consultants - transfers kills from one industry to another; attend workshops.






26. Americans with Disability Act; Prohibits discrimation; right for consideration but doesn't guarantee the job.






27. Testing based on a person's interests; allign to career choice






28. Helps establish HRD strategic plan - determine organizational strents and weanesseses (internal and external)






29. Explain duties of the job but do not get into specific tasks.






30. 1. Identify Corporate Mission;2. What are future needs;3. What is it really like?;4. Analyze gaps;5. Design learning strategy;6. Evaluate and measure;7. Improve






31. Gen X - technology savy - self-reliant - global - 2 income families; Baby Boomers - stable in career - balanced life - distrustful of govt / authority






32. Leverages concepts from psychology; scientific approach to career decision-making based on behaviors.






33. A questionnaire that asks people - bosses - direct reports - peers - customers - how well a manage performs in any number of areas.






34. 360-feedback; development plans; simulations






35. Concept to be used in instructional methods; motivate user by having them see the benefit they will derive.






36. Matches individuals to their best career choice through interviews and 6 types of work environments; People flourish in environments similar to their personalty traits: realistic (physical strength) - investigative (ideas and thoughts) - artistic (se

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37. A variety of exercises including oral - simulations - interview simulations - etc...






38. Professional guidance used to make good career decisions.






39. Identies development needs of current and future leaders.






40. Lack of bias.






41. Breaks occpations into 8 groups of service and 6 descision levels; basis for tests to determine best career choice.

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42. Proxemity; space relationship between people

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43. I - reaction of student; II - increased learning/knowledge; III - behavior improvement; IV - effect on business based on trainee performance

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44. Tool to predict career success and choice; identifies what motivates a person.






45. Super; Ginzberg - starting at 18....; Trait-and-factor; Personality / topology (Roe - Holland)






46. An individuals approach to learning; way they feel - behave - info they posess.






47. Identifying key positions and candidates to meet short and long term timeframes; identify needs of candidates; Who is qualified? Who is ready?






48. Done by a professional; several times in a career; broad occupational interests






49. Type of ROI - used to prove an intervention generated financial benefit.






50. Identifies all skill and knowledge gaps and skills and required knowledge to meet future workforce needs.







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