Career Development Plan: Tools, Action Steps, and Essentials Report

This report delves into the essentials of a career development plan, emphasizing its role in lifelong learning and effective management of personal and professional processes. It highlights the importance of structured planning and the use of tools like ACHE career EDGE and ACHE career EDGE SE, which provide unique frameworks, assessments, and strategies for career advancement. The report also explores crucial action steps, including the development of communication and leadership skills, as well as the value of self-learning and prior knowledge, particularly in healthcare. The analysis underscores the significance of these elements in achieving career goals and adapting to the evolving demands of professional development.

Career Development Plan

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Essentials of Career development plan ......................................................................................1
Tools that can be considered.......................................................................................................1
Considering action steps.............................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Essentials of Career development plan
A career development plan helps in making the whole processing of the person more
effective and appropriate. It is a lifelong process because learning cannot have some specific
measures. There are enormous factors that the person keeps learning on every stage of their life.
It helps in managing all the necessary processes such as work, leisure etc. Also, the process of
career development is managing the operations and the whole processing very effectively
between the organisation and in their personal life as well (Patino, Au and Vollmer, 2016). A
career development plan helps in maintaining all the processes in a very structured way so that
the whole structure can stay clear enough and the individuals can perform the processes
effectively as well. There are various tools as well that can help in shaping of the career in an
appropriate way. The ones focused about the development of their career can get enormous
benefits because of this in their future processing. The plan complies all the targets and goals that
the person has to achieve throughout and along with this, it also involves different processes that
helps in learning. So, every process must be acquiring some specific deadlines so that the person
can stay ensure to keep it finished within the specific deadline because completing every specific
set within the time period only helps in saving a huge amount of time of the person. Although
there are various tools that can be used for implementation while designing the career
development plan, so that the plan can term beneficial enough for the person and they can be
able to achieve all the targets and goals in order to achieve lifelong learning.
Tools that can be considered
Some very common and well known examples of the tools include ACHE career EDGE
and ACHE career EDGE SE. ACHE career EDGE helps in providing a unique and more
attractive ways of planning. So, while discussing the ideas and thoughts for what processes
should be included. In this an analysis is being done between various processes and the ones who
seems to be relevant and suitable enough. It is important to perform because involving activities
that cannot help the person in any time in their life is quite useless. So, it is better to make
involvement of the activities that can actually prove useful in their future life. So, ACHE career
EDGE is a well known and popular enough tool that can be used for achieving the outcomes
using a completely unique way of planning and managing the tasks. It is because the ACHE
career EDGE tool involves various essential factors that can actually work such as there are
various assessments in it, a framework has also been designed which involves enormous number
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of strategies that can be used to make the processing attractive enough so that the person itself
can also enjoy learning. So, this factor can be considered as a very effective one that can be
ensured while making the career development plan. There are various essential links also
available in the tool which the people can use for learning. It also involves self learning because
there is a small difference between the external and the self learning. The one which people learn
from organisations, internet, other different sources helps in providing an efficient amount of
knowledge and understanding but self learning can actually help in expanding the knowledge in
the better and appropriate way because for self learning, the person can make use of various
different sources, such as involving in different activities, interacting with people, reading books,
accessing different internet sources etc. So, it is not stoppable (Weerakkody, Osmani and Al-
Esmail, 2016). One can learn till their whole life and also, it never gets wasted as well. Having a
deep knowledge and understanding of various different factors helps the person to achieve
different outcomes at different stages of life.
Another very popular tool is considered as the ACHE career EDGE SE tool. It is a
modified version of the career EDGE that consists of enormous number of modified factors that
can also be classified as the replacements of the processes that were either lacking or requiring
some sort of improvements. ACHE career EDGE SE tool has been specially designed in order to
cover every single factor that is required. Also, it ensures a strong start to the career of the person
(Miller, 2017). This also includes different factors, assessments, frameworks etc. The framework
involved in ACHE career EDGE SE is classified as a five step framework and the focus of all the
five stages include some career development articles, success gaining assessments, placement
along with the specific salary report (Rodriguez and Scurry, 2014). So, this also involves various
factors that can be ensured at the time of making the career development plan. For lifelong
learning and for achieving all the targets and outcomes, these tools can be considered as
important because these involves all the necessary factors such as different activities, processes,
deadlines etc. that can help one in achieving all the objectives and achieve a successful lifelong
learning. Both these tools can be very effectively used while developing the career development
plan. It will help in lifelong learning and also, in achieving all the targets and goals and that too
at a much faster rate. These tools are considered as one of the effective tools that involves variety
of factors that can be used in order to make an appropriate career development plan. Also, it
helps in making an analysis out of all the processes that which ones are important enough to be
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included and what have to be modified because there might be the possibility that in some
processes, some features needs to be replaced or modified with some that can actually prove
beneficial for the individual to achieve all the learning outcomes.
Considering action steps
For achieving all the processes, having some skills and competencies is important. Some
skills that are required and are essential for being capable enough of accomplishing changes
includes leadership skills, communication skills etc.
Communication skills
Communication skills are considered as important because interacting with people also
helps in expanding a great amount of knowledge. A single mind speaks a few and limited ideas
but various minds speaks many ideas. So, when one makes interaction with the others, they
exchange ideas. This exchange of ideas also helps in maximizing the rate of understanding and
knowledge of a person to a huge extent. Therefore, it is very important to consider these skills so
that the person can feel confident enough about themselves and about the changes as well they
are trying to involve for lifelong learning.
Leadership skills
Efficient leadership skills also play a very important role. An efficient leader is capable
enough of dealing with any conflicting situation. Leadership skills are considered as the skills
that should be involved and are necessary as well to ensure a proper managing and controlling of
the systems and operations in a processed way so that no further factors can act as barrier or
challenge, thus the person can be able to achieve all the targets and goals at a much faster rate as
well. It will also prove beneficial enough in the lifelong learning (Mazzotti, Rowe and
VanAvery, 2018).
Skills and Knowledge
Self learning can also help in achieving the understanding of various factors. Also, it
helps in providing an efficient rate of confidence as well. Along with this, for lifelong learning,
the person can also include various extra activities such as taking part in seminars, conferences
etc. because this provides an opportunity to speak and put own views in front of people. Thus, it
also helps in providing a huge rate of confidence levels as well because speaking in front of
others helps in increasing the capability of the person to present their views. Thus, it further
helps in maximizing the expansion a person requires for lifelong development.
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Prior knowledge of the health care system
Also, having some knowledge about the health care systems can help because if the
person will be going to learn for some more factors related to that, it is very important to have a
basic understanding of it because when the person will be having the basic knowledge of it, it
can help the individual in gaining the other related factors more rapidly and easily. Therefore, it
can be considered that there are various tools which can be used for the further implementation
of the processes while maintaining the career development plan but two tools have been
considered here and these are ACHE career EDGE and ACHE career EDGE SE because they act
suitable and relevant enough to be considered while making the career development plan.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Mazzotti, V. L., Rowe, D. A. and VanAvery, C., 2018. Steps for Implementing a State-Level
Professional Development Plan for Secondary Transition. Career Development and
Transition for Exceptional Individuals. 41(1). pp.56-62.
Miller, C. L., 2017. CAREER ACTION PLAN: Applying Analytical Thinking Skills in an
Online Career Development Course. Career Planning & Adult Development
Journal. 33(2).
Patino, C. M., Au, D. H. and Vollmer, W. M., 2016. Building Research Capacity In Middle And
Low-Income Countries Through Research Methodology And Career Development
Education. In D102. FIGURING OUT WHAT WE DON'T KNOW: ADVANCES IN
MEDICAL EDUCATION (pp. A7567-A7567). American Thoracic Society.
Rodriguez, J. K. and Scurry, T., 2014. Career capital development of self-initiated expatriates in
Qatar: cosmopolitan globetrotters, experts and outsiders. The International Journal of
Human Resource Management. 25(7). pp.1046-1067.
Weerakkody, V., Osmani, M. and Al-Esmail, R., 2016. Situating continuing professional
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Management. 11(11). p.81.
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