Producing a career plan
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)
During this training activity a career plan involving long and short-term career goals is produced in a structured format. Participants are guided through the stages of planning and given feedback and encouragement by each other.
After a brief introduction to the theme of creating a career plan, participants look again at their long-term aiming point and begin to complete a personal career plan. Next, they examine the concept of career bridges and the practicalities of making many small incremental career moves as opposed to one large leap involving many changes. Participants then think more immediately to define their short-term aiming points. This is followed by a series of exercises concerned with plotting their career plans. They look at the requirements of their aiming points, how to perfect their plans and, finally, the intermediate steps needed to attain both the long-term and short-term aiming points.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to plan long and short-term career goals. The concept of career bridges is introduced and used to help the participants in planning steps to attain career goals.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:55:00 |
| No of Pages: | 20 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with participants who have thought through their personal motivators and understand what they have to offer in terms of their skills, experience, technical and professional know-how, behavioural strengths and attitude. The training activity is not suitable for participants who have not had the opportunity to think through these areas. It is best used after one or all of the following activities, ‘Flexible career management’, ‘Understanding my skills’, ‘Value, attitudes and motivation’, ‘Behavioural profiles’, ‘Technical and professional know-how’ and ‘Goals and ambitions’. This training activity assumes that the participants will have completed ‘Goals and ambitions’. Participants are expected to arrive understanding their long-term goals and current capability profile/skill sets.
Download the training activity, Producing a career plan as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Career Development