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Career Strategies - Career Development by Organizations
Has your organization seriously considered implementing a career
development program? If not, perhaps this is a good time to do so. Career
development can be described as a process for achieving specific employee and
organization goals, including providing career information to employees, helping
employees identify advancement opportunities, promoting job satisfaction, and
improving employee productivity.
Career development activities can help employees to:
- Identify and understand their
vocational interests and strengths,
- Plan and implement career
goals, and
- Develop them.
They help employees answer such questions as; “Who am I?” “How am I seen by my
superiors?”, “What are my career alternatives and goals?” and “How can I achieve
my goals?”
Career development can help companies to:
- Attract the best employees,
- Motivate them,
- Develop, and retain the best
workers over time.
The benefits of a carefully crafted organization career development system can
be:
- A better employee-organization
fit,
- A better employee-job fit,
- Better communications between
employees and managers and
- Increased employee loyalty.
As
the individual employee career development needs differ and organizations vary
in the career development resources available to them, organization career
development systems make use of a variety of career development interventions.
