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Career Planning And Talent Management

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Career development theory; DE Super; careers move thru 5 phases from childhood to adulthood.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Provides accurate picture of a person's personality.






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






14. Learner centered; informal; impersonal






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






16. Identies development needs of current and future leaders.






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






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

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

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






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






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






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






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






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






26. People must be respnsible for their own development;Executives support and develop; organization provides opportunities

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






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

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






30. 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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31. How a company views their world - their value system

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






33. Involves SWOT analysis; allows org to identify aspirations and future challenges. 1. Identify values; 2. create mission statement; 3. Environment Analysis; 4. Identify goals and objectives; 5. Action steps; 6. Reality test the plan; 7. Feedback






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






35. 360-feedback; development plans; simulations






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






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






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






39. Determine future of organization in terms of career development; realistic vision; link present and future possibilities.






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






41. Lack of bias.






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

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






44. Human Resource Development. The organized education and learning offered by employers.






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






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






47. Workforce planning built based on strategic plan.






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






49. Professional guidance used to make good career decisions.






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






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