career development
CAREER MANAGEMENT
FutureSelves is an online assessment that looks at four key areas: career; skills and interests; values and lifestyle. The graphical report provides the basis for an in-depth discussion, and development of a plan towards the tackling of barriers, and the realisation of goals.
The tool facilitates engaging and dynamic discussion, and insight. It rapidly:
- identifies issues in ways that lead to solutions
- helps clients look at things in new ways
- helps people change and develop
- raises achievement
Clients like it because it reflects their perspective, and includes thoughts, feelings, career and wider issues. It sets clients up to be future focussed in a positive way and prepares them well for coaching and other types of development. This has advantages for all parties. The psychometrics are sound.
The tool engages participants early in the development process. For outplacement, passwords can be sent out on the first day of contact with the individual.
FutureSelves is a computerised questionnaire that provides software and skills to help HR professionals in their work with people. There is also a paper-based version. There are also work booklets and materials available for the participants and coaches/counsellors.
Presentation: Career Development in Organisations: What works and what doesn't. Delivered by Dr Geoff Plimmer at the AACC conference in Canberra, Australia.
FUTURESELVES AND OUTPLACEMENT
After the initial shock of being told to prepare for job loss, clients generally need to start thinking about their futures. Our approach provides a quick and efficient means of doing so, and for counsellors and advisors to develop strategies.
Outplacement can be both an opportunity to start in new exciting directions, but it also carries risks. FutureSelves helps build choice and opportunity.
Our item banks help people identify those risks, but its interactive questioning can also bring out opportunities that may not already have been considered, skills and interests that may have been forgotten, and lifestyle issues that provide a chance to assess overall life direction and values.
Read more about how FutureSelves can be used in organisations.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES
Outplacement - Redundant Sales and Marketing Executive
WHAT UK USERS SAY
"Excellent, very useful......." "Provided a quicker way of exploring client issues and aspirations." "Exposes the threats and dreads."
PROMOTING USER DISCUSSIONS
Ruth Thornycroft, from Lower Hutt, New Zealand, who works in rehabilitation and with adult students in career transition says "I am enjoying using it, and finding that it is very useful for quickly building rapport and facilitating more open discussion of client's issues/barriers."
