Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Anuraag Awasthi
Agenda
- Career Management: Traditional Career vs. Protean Career, Models of Career Development - Challenges in Career Management: Onboarding, Dual Career Paths, Plateauing, and Managing Career Breaks, Future Aspects of T& D.
Career Management
Lifelong, self-monitored process of career planning that involves choosing and setting personal goals, and formulating strategies for achieving them.
Career Management
Traditional Career vs. Protean Career
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
WHAT IS A CAREER?
A career is a persons chosen profession
or occupation. The general course or progression of your working life or your professional achievement. A career may include several jobs.
very important, it allows you to become aware, clarify and assess your :
and assess: Occupational requirements Employment trends Community, family, leisure, and volunteer issues and needs Developments in current work environment Developments outside current work Global issues and implications
Skills Obsolescence
Organizational socialization - the process by which new employees are transformed into effective members of the company The purpose of orientation is to:
Prepare employees to perform their jobs effectively Learn about the organization Establish work relationships
Anticipatory Socialization
Encounter
Settling In
History
Company Goals
Language
Politics
People
Performance Proficiency
Company-Level Information
Company overview Key policies and procedures Compensation Employee benefits & services Safety & accident protection Employee & union relations Physical facilities Economic factors Customer relations
Department-Level Information
Department functions
Job duties & responsibilities Policies, procedures, rules Performance expectations Tour of department Introduction to co-workers
Miscellaneous
Community
Housing Family adjustment
Employees are encouraged to ask questions Program includes information on both technical and social aspects of the job Orientation is the responsibility of the new employees manager New employees are not debased or embarrassed Formal and informal interactions with managers and peers occur Programs involve relocation assistance Employees receive information about the
The traditional career path model has limited advancement opportunities for those in the technical career path.
Department Manager
Manager
Assistant Manager
A dual-career-path system enables employees to remain in a technical career path or move into a management career path.
The career path is for employees with outstanding technical skills Individual contributors are given the opportunity to choose their career path
The company provides assessment resources Assessment information enables employees to make comparisons between their interests and abilities with those of employees in technical and managerial positions
Plateauing
Plateauing means that the likelihood of the employee receiving future job assignments with increased responsibility is low Mid-career employees are most likely to plateau Plateauing becomes dysfunctional when the employee feels stuck in a job that offers no potential for personal growth Such frustration results in poor job attitude, increased absenteeism, and poor job
Lack of ability
Lack of training Low need for achievement Unfair pay decisions or dissatisfaction with pay raises Confusion about job responsibilities Slow company growth resulting in reduced development opportunities
Employee understands the reasons for plateauing Employee is encouraged to participate in development activities Employee is encouraged to seek career counseling Employee does a reality check on his or her solutions
Skills Obsolescence
Obsolescence a reduction in an employees competence resulting from a lack of knowledge of new work processes, techniques, and technologies that have developed since the employee completed her education Not just a concern of technical and professional occupations
Company Climate
Emphasis on Continuous Learning
Updated Skills
Peers
Discuss Ideas Share Information
Reward System
Sabbaticals Pay for New Ideas
opportunity to exchange information and ideas 2. Give employees challenging job assignments early in their careers 3. Provide job assignments that challenge employees and require them to stretch their skills 4. Provide rewards for updating behaviors, suggestions, and
attend professional conferences subscribe to professional journals and magazines enroll in university, technical school, or community college courses at low or no cost
trainers and managers may be responsible for developing policies and procedures trainers may be responsible for developing training programs to teach managers their role in administering and overseeing the use of work-life policies
Microsharing - Microsharing is the class of social software tools that enables people to update one another with short bursts of text, links, and multimedia through stand alone applications (think Twitter). For busy people who need to find ways to manage their attention stream, microsharing seems just enough to not seem like a burden; it fits into the spaces between the critical work people do. People use it as a digest, checking in once in a while and getting an idea where the institution is on a topic, what's Microsharing up. One more blip isn't distracting; they view the microsharing stream when they have time. They can engage when appropriate. The trouble with our old way of 'sharing' is we customarily ask the person closest to us rather than someone known to have the right answer. Microsharing helps us reach the right people without even knowing who they are. My favorite mircosharing platform currently is Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck is a platform that allows users of Twitter to look at multiple streams of information at one time. Many people see Twitter as a nuisance (or at best, a narcissistic media channel for people to tell "us" the flavor of their coffee). I use Twitter more as an ad-hoc focus group. Based on the people I follow or just by typing in a search term, I can view what millions of people are talking about on a continuing stream of conversation (try typing in New Social Learning and see what continual information comes up in the stream).
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