Building and Development Talent: Career Development Strategies, Job Analysis, TNA, LDP, and HR Policies

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1 Identify three (3) career development strategies that constitute good practice in
career development. Explain how these strategies are beneficial to employees.
The three career development strategies which constitute good practices in career
development are:
 Conduct regular self assessment – Self assessment can only improve the progress update
of the plan, it helps the person to understand where he or she is standing and how far is
the goal which is yet to be achieved. It is beneficial to the employees as because it will
help them to achieve every step in achieving their goal. It will also provide them a basic
knowledge of where they are positioned, how far they are from the goal,, in the progress
update of achieving the goal. Before the self assessment evaluation the person should be
able to list out the accomplishments which will be carried out in the following days. The
person should note down the struggle which they should taken in the life to achieve the
goals. The person should also be able to regularly align the feedback which is sent by the
tutor or the coach taking care of the person (Hastings and Perform Yard 2015).
 Making the goals manageable – It is very important to plan out the short term goals, it
will help the person to plan better and leave less room for the mistakes. Also planning
short term goals is more motivating. Planning for the manageable goals can also be very
motivating as because it will bring a feeling that the person is achieving lot more often
which creates a positive outlook on the career development (Jones, 2016).
 Setting milestones and having a broad vision – Setting the milestones is one of the best
careers planning strategy which might go a long way in helping the person achieving the
goals. These mile stones are known as the stepping stones which will allow a person to
achieve further in the career. Having a broad vision is another one of the most important

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career strategy which should be considered in order to visualize and motivate the person.
For example the Olympic athletics have been using the visualization techniques for more
than few years.
2 Conduct job/task analyses for the work team members and identify the competencies
required to do the jobs/tasks. Select one of the job/task analyses to submit for your
response for this question.
A job or task analysis is a process of collecting, analyzing and setting out information about the
content of the job which is required in a particular organization. It therefore helps or provides
information for recruitment, training, job evaluation and performance management. According to
the authors Mone and London (2018) the job ort task analysis concentrates on what job the
holders are expected to do. Whereas the competency analysis is mainly concerned with the
functional analysis which is known to determine the work based competencies and behavioral
analysis. This helps the person to get information regarding the job roles and objectives in a
certain organization (Bernaudin and Dand 2015). The organization’s job roles should match with
the personal characteristics of the individuals which they will bring into the job roles.
The job title which is selected in the context over here is DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR.
The competencies which are required to do the task are described below :
 Should be able to analyze and choose options where the accurate technical solution is not
provided. He should also be able to review and evaluate the sources of the IT candidates
who are working in the organization.

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 Develop project plans and organize the own workload on a timescale of 1 to 3 months.
 Adapt to the rapid change in the technologies without losing sight of the overall plans and
priorities.
 Negotiating with the suppliers. Should have knowledge on oracle database
administration. He should be able to respond promptly to the request for the line
managers in order to assist the technological problems faced by the organization.
 The operations of oracle ranges from SQ/ PLSQL/ to Unix administration and nutshell
programming.
 Also one should keep abreast of the technological developments and trends which bring
these into day to day work feasible and implement them into the new projects which are
being developed by the organization.
3 Refer to Figure 3.13: Career stages on page 53 of the topic workbook and identify the
career stage of each of the work team members and give reasons why you believe each
work team member is at this particular stage of their career
Analyzing the figure which is presented below it can be said that each and every member
or individual of the team have to go through the five stages of their career in the organization.
People are known to start their work life at different ages. Few of them give it a stare in their
early life whereas few take time to get the mental preparation for getting a job (Punjaisr and
Wilson 2017). The age gap which is broken at the stages of the career starts from 14 years of
age and continues till 65. At the very early stage the person tries to develop a self concept of
getting and preparing for the job which is known as the growth stage of the person. The
exploration stage is when the person falls between the age of 15 to 24. At this age the person