Exploring flexible career options
Featured in the Managing Career Development training manual
By Andrew Mayo & Geoff Atkinson& Karen Glasse
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Increasingly in organisations, the full time, permanent job that used to make up most of the workforce is being replaced and supplemented by a whole range of different relationships between employee and employer. While these will not all be available in any one organisation, it is important in considering career options that individuals start by thinking as broadly as possible about what the options might be. Within organisations today, it is important to recognise that existing employees also need to consider career options, particularly in any outplacement situation, such as a redundancy programme.
After an introduction by the trainer, which includes defining the terms to be used, participants discuss the range of employment options that could be available to them. Then they look at the characteristics that distinguish certain employment options and rate them according to how representative they are of these options. Next, participants study example job profiles to use as a guide when rating their own preferences and making their personal profiles. They go on to consider the option of job sharing and the implications for where they work arising from particular employment options. Finally, the participants look into sources of help available to them when considering any major career change. The training activity concludes with the suggestion that they talk with someone who has already made the career move they may be contemplating.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers particularly with participants who are thinking of their career in broader terms than their current organisation, such as those on an outplacement programme.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 24 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers primarily in a situation where the participants are on an outplacement programme. It might be run as a stand-alone activity, for example, as a voluntary lunch-time or after-work activity, or it might be part of a more formal programme. It is important that the participants have done some previous work on goal setting and capability analysis, for example, by carrying out some of the activities that cover ‘Understanding myself’.
Download the training activity, Exploring flexible career options as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Career Development