In an enriched induction period, the school system can use various personnel processes (recruitment, selection, placement, appraisal, counseling) not only to meet staffing needs but also to design programs that encourage individual career planning activities and make challenging initial assignments possible. Induction is a time when individuals should have opportunities and encourage individual career planning individuals should have opportunities and encouragement to understand their potential and to shape their short- and long-term aspirations accordingly.
Phase II – Human Resource Planning
Human resource planning refers to the school system’s role in creating, supporting, and encouraging career perspectives for employees. It is the system’s responsibility to shape its human resources into effective conduits through which an organizational climate is established that enhances individual career planning. Unless the system contains a set of values that places a premium on activities to achieve desired individual performance, there is little chance that individual career planning will result in positive outcomes.
Organization strategies to make the entry-level stage a period when career development begins to take shape include consideration of three variables; the individual, positions, and the organization climate. Courses of action to link these components include :
Establishing policies, programs, and procedures on which to base operational activities involved in career planning.
Providing orientation, counseling, and mentoring services to assist persons with problems relating to entry-level adjustment, self-evaluation, and career planning.
Designing appraisal systems that provide performance feedback linked to career planning.
Initiation a plan for analyzing and specifying job requirements, from which essential information can be gleaned for describing the content of positions and the characteristics of persons who might perform in these positions successfully.
Shaping challenging first jobs and enriching job assignments.
Making career planning workshops, seminars, career path information, job previews, and psychological and aptitude test services available to newcomers.
Establishing programs and practices to integrate career development with present and future staffing needs.