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Do you have a development plan?

Started by merithyn, September 20, 2012, 03:01:14 PM

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Well?

Of course! Completely updated and looking good. Doesn't everyone?
I do, but it's seriously in need of updating.
I know that should, but no, I don't.
No need. My career will get where it's going all on its own.
A what?
I have a plan, but it doesn't involve any HR bull-puckey
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merithyn

September 20, 2012, 03:01:14 PM
I had a very lengthy and instructional conversation with my sister last night. One of the big topics of conversation was on creating a development plan for my career. I had never heard of such a thing, nor did I really understand how it could help when my "career" is mostly non-existent. After a bit of prodding from my sister, I finally began to get what she was talking about. She sent me a few examples and a blank one to work on my own, with the intention of bringing it in to my three-month evaluation at my current position.

For those who don't know what they are: What is a professional development plan?

My sister - who is a Director in charge of 275 people - is required to make sure that every one of her people have one of these in their personnel file that is updated at least yearly. That includes the 35 people in her India group. As I said, I'd never heard of it, but I can certainly see the appeal. What are your opinions on this?
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

DGuller

#1
September 20, 2012, 03:02:16 PM
FFS, Meri, I have a bad enough day at work as it is.  I did not need that vomit on my keyboard.

CountDeMoney

#2
September 20, 2012, 03:04:55 PM
Not anymore.

Malthus

#3
September 20, 2012, 03:05:15 PM
Forcing employees to do stuff like this keeps HR people in gainful employment.  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Razgovory

#4
September 20, 2012, 03:12:26 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 20, 2012, 03:05:15 PM
Forcing employees to do stuff like this keeps HR people in gainful employment.  :D

Does increase the number of workplace shooting sprees though.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

merithyn

#5
September 20, 2012, 03:14:12 PM
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2012, 03:02:16 PM
FFS, Meri, I have a bad enough day at work as it is.  I did not need that vomit on my keyboard.

:huh: :unsure:

What did I do?
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

DGuller

#6
September 20, 2012, 03:18:44 PM
You mentioned "development plan".  :x  Sorry, gotta go, will elaborate later.

derspiess

#7
September 20, 2012, 03:20:19 PM
I have one but it's on the back burner while I fight through a backlog of projects.  Where my wife works a "development plan" is used for misbehaving or under-performing employees.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

dps

#8
September 20, 2012, 03:21:07 PM
Everybody needs to have a plan for their career, if they want to get ahead.  Meri, the fact that you and I didn't is probably a big part of why neither of us is where we want to be.  I know that it is for me,  anyway (though the fact that I still haven't quite figured out where I want to be is another big factor--after all, it's hard to plan how to get to your destination if you don't know what your destination is).

OTOH, an employer forcing people to have a formal, written plan--well, I think Malthus isn't far off the mark there.  Especially considering that if people are being honest about it, most of them would include changing employers in that plan at some point.

The Brain

#9
September 20, 2012, 03:22:06 PM
Yes. Get through the day.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

mongers

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September 20, 2012, 04:12:36 PM Last Edit: September 20, 2012, 04:40:43 PM by mongers
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Grey Fox

#11
September 20, 2012, 04:33:33 PM
Of course not.
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Phillip V

#12
September 20, 2012, 04:45:36 PM
I just have my own personal 1-page life timeline that maps out my life for the next 50 years.

garbon

#13
September 20, 2012, 04:53:55 PM
A. Go to Stanford
B. Work in Pharma

...

Z. Take take over the world
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katmai

#14
September 20, 2012, 04:55:49 PM
A wha?
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son
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