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Career Planning And Talent Management

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Done by in-line manager; regular (1 per year); short/long term career objectives; relevant skills/training






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






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






5. Modeling - awareness programs - training - desensitization






6. 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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. Workforce planning built based on strategic plan.






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

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






14. Proxemity; space relationship between people

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






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






17. The collective knowledge - skills - competencies and value in an organization.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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

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26. 360-feedback; development plans; simulations






27. Process to ensure continuity in key leadership positions.






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

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






30. Identifies past - present and future performance gaps.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 1. Analysis; 2. Synthesis; 3 Diagnose; 4. Pronosis; 5. Councel; 6. Follow up

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






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






48. 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






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






50. Taks Analysis - job->tasks->steps;Performance Gap Analysis- past - present - future;Content Analysis - subject matter;Competency assessment - by skillset