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Career Planning And Talent Management

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Analysis that is conducted to understand target population - demographics; all prior to job analslys - training or other interventions.






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

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3. Identies development needs of current and future leaders.






4. DECIDES - a rational decision making process with 7 steps: Define - Establish an plan - Clarify values - Identify Alteratives - Discover potential outcomes - Eliminate alternatives - Start action

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5. Lack of bias.






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

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






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






9. Modeling - awareness programs - training - desensitization






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






11. Identifies past - present and future performance gaps.






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






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






14. 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






15. All tools of succession planning. ; Assessments; Training; Mentoring/coaching; Job-rotation; OJT






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






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






18. Professional guidance used to make good career decisions.






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. Race - age - gender - generational - ethnicity






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Workforce planning built based on strategic plan.






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






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






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

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






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






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

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44. Testing based on one's core values; allign to career choice






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






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






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






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






49. Revolve around KSAs; organization identifies competancies required; part of succession planning; tests - interviews - etc..






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

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