Create a career development plan
for the selected candidate.
Introduction
For this assessment, you will use the CapraTek: Succession Planning
simulation. Using this simulation, featuring a fictitious technology
organization, requires you to make decisions about the best candidates
for a plant manager position, to interview the candidates, and to select
your top candidate in order to create a career development plan.
Note: The assessments in this course build upon each other, so you are strongly encouraged to complete them in sequence.
Personal and Professional Goals
Employees have personal and professional needs. Each employee is an
individual who wants to understand who he or she is, to define his or
her own professional goals, and to devise a plan for how to achieve
these identified goals. It is your responsibility, as a training
professional, to assist employees in meeting both their professional and
personal goals. Ideally, the employee development system will allow
employees to see how their personal goals align with organizational
goals. Furthermore, it will set expectations for employees’ continued
growth within the organization and provide feedback on their progress
toward professional and personal goals. For example, an increasingly
popular and important method of employee assessment is the 360-degree
feedback method. This assessment tool is a multisource assessment that
provides the employee with a chance to receive multi-rater feedback from
peers, managers, and other coworkers and sources that work directly
with the individual, along with a self-evaluation. The results of this
assessment assist the employee with identifying and understanding areas
for improvement.
Career Management
An organization’s most valuable resource is its employees. An
organization that invests time, money, and human resources in caring for
the well-being of employees should receive a return of appreciation
that shows through longevity, continued contribution, performance
improvement, and ROI. Career management is an important issue for
organizations that hope to maintain growth for both the organization and
employees. As our world changes, so does the need for the organization
to maintain pace with advancements in technology and processes.
Organizations must constantly look to the future and anticipate human
capital needs. Similarly, employees should be encouraged to think about
their own long-term goals and how the organization can help them achieve
these goals. A solid career management process will meet both the
organization’s and employee’s needs.
To develop employees for longer-term, continual growth with an
organization, this assessment introduces succession planning and
developing a career management plan.
Preparation
Complete the CapraTek: Succession Planning
simulation activity. Be sure to download your activity log results
after completing this simulation; you will use them in this assessment.
Requirements
For this assessment, complete the following:
Analyze how succession planning supports an organization’s strategic training plan.
Articulate why candidates were selected to be interviewed.
Develop a career development plan for the chosen candidate.
Analyze the selection of a candidate to hire for a position.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is in a professional style with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.
Headings: Incorporate level headings according to current APA style.
Length: A typical response will be 5–6 typed, double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
References: Use at least two references.