Career Plan Development

Career Plan Development

• Because of the changes in the workplace and workforce, you must provide your job seeker customers with career development services

Career Plan Development

• Your role as a workforce development professional is to help job seekers

– Strategically plan for a career

– Become more career focused

• Job seekers have to be

– Willing to change

– Creative in their approach

– Logical in their analysis

Career Plan Development• Change is “unknown” and can be scary

• You, as a workforce professional, will have to help job seekers move outside their comfort zone by– Helping customers see the positive aspects of their

career change

– Helping customers be creative in their approach to career changes through exploration

– Helping customers logically examine the information from assessments and career research to make solid and attainable decisions

Definition

• What is Career Development?– A process by which

individuals• Define career goals

• Prepare for, search for and retain employment

• Build skills, advance, and change employment

Career Plan Development Process

Career ExplorationAssessments Planning

Conclusion

• Next:

– Module two will lead you and Anny through the assessment process

– Module three will guide you through the career exploration process

– Module four will guide you through the development of an action plan