Collection: Career Development

IMPORTANCE OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Career development is fast becoming a catchphrase, not only among individuals and employees, but in organizations. Many of these organizations even go so far as establish career development programs for their workforce.

That is because they are now fully aware of the fact that career development is not something that benefits the individual alone, but also the organization.

Why is career development necessary?

• Career development aids in the adaptation to the changing nature of work and types of jobs
• Career development aids in the management of manpower requirements

Organizations are becoming more serious about implementing career development programs, because they want something that can address the various human resource problems and personnel issues that they encounter. Specifically, career development helps in:

Ensuring a steady and continuous supply of qualified and talented workers.

The best and most talented jobseekers prioritize applying to companies that are known to have solid career development programs.

Therefore, these companies will not have much difficulty attracting applicants when they have an open position, because they will be lining up.

Ensuring a good fit between the job and the jobholder.

This is one of the fundamental reasons why there is career development. In order to advance in his career, the jobholder has to make sure that he is able to perform the job very well, and one way to guarantee that is to actively pursue career development efforts aimed at improving oneself.

Boosting employee motivation and job satisfaction.

Employees who work in a company with a strong and positive stance on career development will feel more motivated to work. They will stay with the company, since it holds promise that there is a clear career path for them to follow.

Otherwise, they will simply look elsewhere for other, better, career opportunities. Their job satisfaction will be high, and this will have a domino effect on his individual productivity, and the overall organizational productivity.

Career development promotes equity in the workforce.

Thanks to career development programs, the playing field at the workplace may be leveled a bit. It promotes equity, where employees can have equal opportunities to improve themselves and advance their careers.

A similar situation is that of a multi-cultural workforce in an American company. The assumption would be that the American workers will have more opportunities to be promoted and rise up the ranks. But with a career development program firmly in place, even non-Americans can compete.

Career development increases individual worker productivity.

We mentioned this already: satisfied and motivated employees are likely to improve the quality of their work. Also, if they gain more knowledge and acquire more skills through career development, they will be able to increase their productivity and contribute more to the organization.

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