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Career Planning and Development: 1. Does It Make Sense To Speak of Career Planning in Today's Business Climate?
Career Planning and Development: 1. Does It Make Sense To Speak of Career Planning in Today's Business Climate?
A.
1. Does it make sense to speak of
career planning in today’s business
climate?
Career Planning and Development
A.
1. Does it make sense to speak of
career planning in today’s business
climate?
2. Why is career planning important?
Career Planning and Development
A.
1. Does it make sense to speak of
career planning in today’s business
climate?
2. Why is career planning important?
3. Who is responsible for career
planning?
Career Planning versus
Career Management
Career Planning
Career Planning versus
Career Management
Career Planning
• Workbooks, workshops, counseling
Career Planning versus
Career Management
Career Planning
• Workbooks, workshops, counseling
• Need for self-evaluation
e.g., life/career stages, career anchors
Career Planning versus
Career Management
Career Planning
• Workbooks, workshops, counseling
• Need for self-evaluation
e.g., life/career stages, career anchors
Career Management
• Job posting, skills inventories, succession
planning
Career Planning versus
Career Management
Career Planning
• Workbooks, workshops, counseling
• Need for self-evaluation
e.g., life/career stages, career anchors
Career Management
• Job posting, skills inventories, succession
planning
• Mentoring
Career Planning versus
Career Management
Career Planning
• Workbooks, workshops, counseling
• Need for self-evaluation
e.g., life/career stages, career anchors
Career Management
• Job posting, skills inventories, succession
planning
• Mentoring
• Assessment centers
Assessment Centers
Assessment Centers
• a process, not a place
Assessment Centers
• a process, not a place
• can range from several hours to two
weeks in length
Assessment Centers
• a process, not a place
• can range from several hours to two
weeks in length
• usually done with multiple exercises, multiple
applicants, and multiple assessors, e.g.,
6 applicants and 3 assessors
Assessment Centers
• a process, not a place
• can range from several hours to two
weeks in length
• usually done with multiple exercises, multiple
applicants, and multiple assessors, e.g.,
6 applicants and 3 assessors
• costs range anywhere from $50 to several
thousand dollars per candidate
Assessment Centers
• a process, not a place
• can range from several hours to two
weeks in length
• usually done with multiple exercises, multiple
applicants, and multiple assessors, e.g.,
6 applicants and 3 assessors
• costs range anywhere from $50 to several
thousand dollars per candidate
• extremely high reliability and validity
Assessment Centers
• a process, not a place
• can range from several hours to two
weeks in length
• usually done with multiple exercises, multiple
applicants, and multiple assessors, e.g.,
6 applicants and 3 assessors
• costs range anywhere from $50 to several
thousand dollars per candidate
• extremely high reliability and validity
• excellent for both selection and development
Assessment Center Exercises
• Case studies
• Interviews
• Tests
• Simulations/games
Career Planning and Development
1. Career plateaus
Career Planning and Development
1. Career plateaus
2. Work/Nonwork issues
e.g., work/family conflicts
Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993
Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993
• effective August, 1993, the Act covers
employers with 50 or more employees
within a 75-mile radius.
Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993
• effective August, 1993, the Act covers
employers with 50 or more employees
within a 75-mile radius.
• 12 weeks of unpaid leave must be provided
after childbirth or adoption, to care for a
seriously ill child, spouse, or parent, or in case
of an employee’s own serious illness. Paid
leave may be substituted for this.
Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993
• effective August, 1993, the Act covers
employers with 50 or more employees
within a 75-mile radius.
• 12 weeks of unpaid leave must be provided
after childbirth or adoption, to care for a
seriously ill child, spouse, or parent, or in case
of an employee’s own serious illness. Paid
leave may be substituted for this.
• continuous health care coverage must be
provided.
Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993
• effective August, 1993, the Act covers
employers with 50 or more employees
within a 75-mile radius.
• 12 weeks of unpaid leave must be provided
after childbirth or adoption, to care for a
seriously ill child, spouse, or parent, or in case
of an employee’s own serious illness. Paid
leave may be substituted for this.
• continuous health care coverage must be
provided.
• employees must be returned to the same job,
or a comparable position.
Q: How “family friendly” are organizations
today?
How family friendly should they be?
Q: How “family friendly” are organizations
today?
How family friendly should they be?