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Career Planning And Talent Management

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Tool to predict career success and choice; identifies what motivates a person.






2. Williamson; approach to career decision making.; Trait - can be measured; intellegence; Factor - characteristic required to be successful; a score






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






4. Activiites that ensure an organization can meet its goals; the right people in the right place at the right time.






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






6. Does the measurement measure what it was intended to measure?






7. Workforce planning built based on strategic plan.






8. Explain the how and what of career choice; Roe - Holland - psychodynamic






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






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






11. Modeling - awareness programs - training - desensitization






12. By National Career Development Association; ethical standards for a professional; Career dev theory; Counseling skills; assessments; information / resources; management of program; Diversity; Supervision; Ethical and legal; Evaluation; Technology






13. Ability to repeat the same measurement the same way over time.






14. Knowledge - Skills - Attitude (or Ability); Bloom's taxonomy






15. Accents; Gross translation errors; Nuance - no similar command of the same language






16. Interview; Survey - open ended questions; Observe; Work log/diary






17. Done by in-line manager; regular (1 per year); short/long term career objectives; relevant skills/training






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






19. Race - age - gender - generational - ethnicity






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






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






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






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






25. Intimate - < 18'; Personal - 18' to 4'; Social - 4' to 12'; Public - 12' +






26. Identifies past - present and future performance gaps.






27. Summary statement - often with a resume - that highlights a person's work history and skills.






28. Major responsibilities of a deparment with specific outcomes to customers (internal & external)






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






30. All duties and tasks done for a single job; KSAs required and resources needed.






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






32. Increased functional knowledge - build new skill sets - exposure to entire operation; formal program






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






34. Lack of bias.






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






36. 'Adult Learning';Malcolm Knowles - how people learn: self-concept - prior experience - readiness to learn - orientation to learning - motiviation to learn.






37. Adults need to be involved in planning their instruction;Experience provides basis for learning;Must have immediate relevance to their jobs;Problem centered






38. Hire - fire - promote - demote - lateral move






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






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






41. 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






42. Learner centered; informal; impersonal






43. Where at least 2 levels of mgmt review employees and their candidacy for positions.






44. Part of succession planning; identify successors and ability to move up.






45. Degree to which one's position / status is viewed.

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46. MBTI; consists of categories that identify 16 types of personalities. Used in career development. No measure of maturity - intellegence or mental health.






47. Building career and career opportunities; continuing to improve KSAs; career exploration.

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48. How a company views their world - their value system

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49. Professional guidance used to make good career decisions.






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