Career Development
Career development is a strategic HR practice and an essential component of a successful workforce development and talent management strategy. As a strategic organizational development function, career development provides a process whereby employees can expand and optimize their contribution to the organization while helping the individual to identify performance and satisfaction goals that are linked to the goals and challenges of the organization.
Career development can be a multidisciplinary practice involving career planners, advisors, administrative staff, and peer educators who may work collaboratively to provide help and assistance to employees as part of a career development and workforce alignment strategy.
A number of programs, resources, and services can support the effective career development of employees including:
- Descriptions of careers and jobs within the organization
- Links to career resources by topics
- Career and labor market information
- Career planning tools and planning process for assessing aptitudes
- Training programs
360 Degree Feedback
A vital part of an organizational career development strategy is the ability to provide employees with fast, objective feedback that helps them to better understand their perceived strengths and weaknesses. 360-degree assessment tools are a particularly invaluable assessment tool.
The primary advantage of a 360-degree assessment is that it provides individual employees with the opportunity to receive performance feedback from his or her supervisor and up to 8 peers, reporting staff members, and coworkers. 360 degree feedback can also be expanded to include external sources such as customers and suppliers and other stakeholders.
Benefits of a Software Solution
Web-based 360-degree software solutions can dramatically simplify the process for capturing multi-source feedback by significantly reducing resource demands. Creating an assessment, monitoring the process, and generating performance reports can be undertaken with point-and-click simplicity. 360-software can dramatically accelerate the entire employee assessment process through automatic personalized reminders, real-time status monitoring, intuitive user interfaces, and other innovative features that minimize the time and effort of HR professionals, evaluators, and employees.
Halogen Software provides sophisticated web-based 360 degree feedback and other performance management software solutions that complement career development strategies. For more information, just contact us.
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