Career Development Model
By using the following 7-Step Career Development Model, employers and employees alike are able to:
- assess career choices
- partake jointly in career planning, and
- achieve successful career transition
The 7-Step Career Development Model is the structure behind our comprehensive Career Enrichment Tool Kit: a self-paced career development resource that can be used in organizations or by individuals.
The Tool Kit’s seven chapters work through the two key stages of the Model: Preparation and Action.
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Chapters 1 to 4: The Preparation stage will see the participant:
- clarify their career direction
- conduct initial job market research
- identify target organizations
- adjust their job resume and applications
- brief their referees, and
- gain a positive mindset
Chapters 5 to 7: The Action stage will see the participant:
- access the visible and the hidden job markets
- develop and utilize networks
- tailor marketing letters and job applications
- manage recruiters
- prepare for job interviews
- celebrate achievements
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Preparation Stage
Chapter 1: Taking Stock
- Enables examination of your career goals and needs in the context of other life priorities
- Ensures that you are exploring your needs and taking into consideration:
- What type of work is the most fulfilling and satisfying for you
- Your career anchors
- Your dreams and aspirations
- Personality and background
- Career needs in the context of what stage you are at in your life
Chapter 2: My Offering
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Requires you to critically examine and articulate what you are offering the marketplace in terms of:
- Specific marketable achievements
- Skills
- Motivations and passions
- Values
- Personal Qualities
- Capability level
- Aspirations
Chapter 3: Identify and Plan Direction
- Supports you to prepare a long-term career strategy map
- Supports you to plan and make decisions about what options are available for the next step in your career
- Provides a decision-making template for you to make choices about whether you move into your next role within your company or plan to exit your company
- Guides you in the steps to take in getting promoted within your company
- Informs you in the options available to you should you decide to leave the company
- Guides you on how to position yourself if you leave your company in difficult circumstances (termination)
- Provides a framework for you to clarify your desired role
- Articulates your sales pitch on what you have to offer and what you want in your career
- Identifies how to prepare a target list of companies and research those companies
- Enables you to complete your self-marketing plan
- Provides useful hints on how to manage your energy and focus during a period of transition
Chapter 4: Resume Preparation
- Enables you to construct a comprehensive and highly targeted resume to position you in the best possible way
- Explores the appropriate style and format of resume for your role specification
- Selection of the best referees
- Briefing referees on what you wish them to say about you
Action Stage
Chapter 5: Getting Into Action
- Supports you to identify opportunities for roles in the hidden and transparent job market
- Builds skills in networking to increase employability and conduct research about roles and industry
- Helps you to prepare marketing letters
- Explains the most effective way to respond to job applications
- Provides useful hints in how to cold call network contacts
- Guides you in how to get the best out of recruitment agencies
Chapter 6: In the Marketplace
- Prepares you for job interviews and psychometric tests
- Understanding the different types of interviews
- Understanding the importance of body language and presentation
- Builds interviewing skills through practicing answering tough job interview questions
- Provides a framework for negotiating the terms of salary package and benefits
- Items to consider in evaluating multiple offers
Chapter 7: Career Enrichment
- Ensures that you celebrate and reward your achievements in career transition
- Teaches you to clarify performance expectations in your new role
- Identify learning and development needs
- Engage in ongoing professional development
- Mentoring and executive coaching
- Recognizing the importance of managing relationships
- Recognizing the importance of managing perceptions
- Deciding what to do if the role does not work out
- Mapping your next career step
This Career Development Model is a highly effective framework for assessing your or your employees’ career choices, partaking in career planning and achieving successful career transition. We wish you well in your career search endeavors!
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Invest in our comprehensive Career Enrichment Tool Kit and start putting into practice the Career Development Model in your organization or your next career move.
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