Best Career Development Tool

22 November,2022  |  By Brainwonders

 

Career development tools are documents, worksheets, procedures, etc., that are used to determine the best career for you.

These tools are available, both online and in person, for anyone at any age who is interested in new career options.

You can also take help of free career test provided by Brainwonders to determine your career.

Some of the main Career Development Tools include:

• SWOT Analysis
• Career Testing
• Self-assessment
• Research
• Community Resources
• Personality Tests

• Career Planning Process

All these tools are briefly described below:

• SWOT analysis:

SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. This test helps you identify a job that is most suitable for you after determining every factor of SWOT carefully. 

• Career Testing:

Private companies or career counsellors administer career tests with high school students to help them decide on a career path before college.

• Self-assessment:

Self-assessment is used to identify interests and skills in a particular field. There are many ways to complete a self-assessment, such as writing about the expectations and experience from your ideal job, and worksheets to guide reflection.

• Research:

Exploring all the career paths you like and then eliminating the one which least pleases you.

• Community Resources:

Community Resources include workshops, seminars, websites, and publications which helps to determine the career. Public libraries are yet another source to help you know about your career.

• Personality Test:

Personality Tests reveal whether you are a perfect fit for the job or relationship.

With many career choices, reliable career counselling and planning helps in guiding students, business school aspirants and employees seeking career development, progress in the current position or a switch in the career path.

Career planning/counselling: Helping students choose best!

For student:

It would provide a powerful sense of direction, increasing the student’s motivation to succeed and to choose a career in their best interest.

For Business aspirant students:

Good career planning can provide a prospective student in career exploration and program planning; provide information about how the post-secondary system works.

Before selecting courses, it is suggested to know the complete details of the program and course the student may show their interest in.

Professional career planning uses the best tools to provide detailed, individual information, which would directly apply the information to selecting educational courses, and career options that will be most suited and motivating for the student.

For employees and management executives:

Career planning helps in taking a closer look at the current role and assesses the values, skills and interests. It provides a framework to assist in planning the future. Career planning focuses on improving the employability, value, engagement, and performance of the employee.

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What happens while planning a career?

For Students:

Career planning revolves around education and possessing the self-knowledge to make successful career choices.

A complete comprehensive assessment test of aptitude, interests, personality and value, paints a realistic picture of an individual’s strengths and helps define achievable long-term goals.

For college/ business school aspirants:

The career counsellor helps the student explore the following fields for easy decision-making and keeping up the interest of the students, keeping them motivated to achieve success.

• Becoming a student for appropriate business school.
• Selecting appropriate courses and guiding them with the required tests to be taken for the selection process.
• Understanding admission requirements.
• Information of the fees charged for the course and duration of the course.
• Suggesting alternatives to succeed.
• Developing study skills.

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For corporate/employees

The main component of the career development plan for employees is to set targets for small, medium, and long term goals. These are five-year plans and can be determined by a candidate.

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Who helps them take the test?

For students/ business school aspirants:

A career consultant analysis the test results and discusses customized career and educational options with the client during personalized, one-on-one feedback and consultation sessions.

Following the assessment, the candidate makes a decision and develops a career plan to implement it, with the assistance of the consultant.

For employees /mid-level to senior-level management:

Seniors / Supervisors/ Managers who can provide guidance and support but the career development plan is managed is done by the candidate himself as a part of self-evaluation. If the organization arranges a workshop for career counselling it is made personalized for each employee and should be recommended one–on–one follow up to be provided which would ensure a fine-tuning of their career plans and finalizes the ultimate career goal.

Why is career planning important?

Rapidly changing workplaces and increasing numbers in career choices have made

Career literacy as knowledge of one’s abilities and interests,

 Workplace as essential in successfully adapting to today’s job market.

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The earlier individuals understand their unique talents, the sooner they can apply that knowledge to make satisfying career choices. Given that roughly 70% of Americans are dissatisfied with their jobs ( Gullup,2013), the need for career planning is significant.

How would career counselling at Brainwonders benefit me?

This is reasonable, but a hard question. Measuring the impact of learning is not easy. The counselling offers direction and insight that last for a lifetime. The results are printed, immediate and long-term as decisions are made and plans implemented.

Harter, J. K., Schmidt, F. L., Agrawal, S., & Plowman, S. K. (2013). The relationship between engagement at work and organizational outcomes.Gallup Poll Consulting University Press, Washington.

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