Careers today
Featured in the Managing Career Development training manual
By Andrew Mayo & Geoff Atkinson& Karen Glasse
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This activity sets the scene for exploring personal career development and encourages individuals to explore some of the changes in the world of work that have occurred since the late 1970s and 80s. The exercises focus on employment predictions and on the responses of employers and employees to the causes and effects of change on our working lives. In conclusion, participants define some strategic skills they will find useful for successful career construction.
You open with an introduction and preliminary discussion, and then participants work in groups to discuss selected phrases/buzzwords from the work marketplace to present to the whole group. These reflect issues of lifestyle, work patterns and employment. The participants next review the impact of the latest employment predictions on future job opportunities. They consider how their jobs might change in future and the skills that may maximise their chances of success. Finally, they examine the ‘ownership’ of a person’s career – the part played by the organisation and the personal aspects of ownership.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to explore the reality of careers in the work marketplace today.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:00:00 |
| No of Pages: | 19 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers, and is particularly useful as an ice-breaker activity before the self-analysis stage of a career development programme. The exercises are designed primarily for a non-managerial group and will need some amendment for use by managers, although the same principles apply.
Download the training activity, Careers today as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Career Development