Developing Career Resilience: New Career-Management Strategies

Course Description:

This one day workshop is designed to increase the career resilience of employees whose organizations have experienced significant transition. Employees will develop knowledge, attitudes, and skills that foster self-reliance in the management of their careers. This is a key challenge as organizations shift from the old implied social contract characterized by paternalism and life-long employment in exchange for loyalty and hard work toward a new contract that is based on situational employment and empowers employees to take charge of their own careers and learning.

No longer can employees depend on their organizations to guide their career direction. New ways of looking at the world of work and skills to manage in this new world are needed as part of every employee's survival skills. Organizations benefit when employees manage their careers by having the right people in the right jobs at the right time.

Because one of the goals of this program is to help employees develop a new reality, the program focuses on changing attitudes through affective and cognitive learning. Time is also devoted to helping employees learn new skills that help them initiate self-directed career assessment and job-search techniques.

Key objectives:

  • Learn why career resilience in a changing world depends on self-reliance in career management
  • Examine beliefs and attitudes about responsibility for career management
  • Adapt to change by learning about resources that aid in personal assessment and job-search techniques
  • Experience the benefit of working with small groups for support and assistance in the lifelong career-management process