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Career Planning And Talent Management

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Knowledge - Skills - Attitude (or Ability); Bloom's taxonomy






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






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






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






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






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


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






8. Workforce planning built based on strategic plan.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Process to ensure continuity in key leadership positions.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Professional guidance used to make good career decisions.






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






29. 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






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






31. 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


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






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






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


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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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


43. 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






44. Modeling - awareness programs - training - desensitization






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






46. Using different modes to train (online / ILT - workshops - etc..)






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






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


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






50. 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