Career development interventions

Definitions

Career development intervention is defined as any activity that empowers people to cope effectively with career development tasks (Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2002).

It is a deliberate act aimed to enhancing some aspect of a person’s career development such as career maturity and career decision making (Isaacon & Brown, 2000).

There are many type of career development interventions including career guidance, career counseling, career information, career education, career development program

and career coaching (Isaacon & Brown, 2000).

All these interventions are help people to develop self-awareness, occupational awareness, learn career decision making skill, job search skills, cope with job stress, adjust and implement after have make a choice, problem solving skills

Final definition

Any action/activity or policy taken by organization or adopted by an individual for the improvement of future career is known as

INTERVENTION

Types of Interventions

1) work-based intervention

2) Advising interventions

3) Introductory interventions

4) Curriculum-based intervention

work-based intervention

This class of interventions designed to promote both career and academic self-efficacy and motivations through sustained and meaningful interactions with work site in the community.

There are ten types of work-based interventions include cooperative:

education, internship, job shadowing, job coaching, job placement, mentorship programs, service learning/volunteer programs, work-based learning project, work study and youth apprenticeship.

Advising interventions

preparation, personal/social counseling, portfolio/ individualcareer plan, recruiting, referral to external training programs

and referral to externalcounseling/assessment the class of interventions designed to

provide direction,resolve impediments, about their goals for the future. There are 20interventions include academic planning counseling, career

focused parent/student conference, careerpeer advising/tutoring, career map, career maturity

assessment, career counseling, career interestassessment, career library/career resource center, career

cluster/pathway/major, career passport/ skillscertificate, college admissions testing, computer-assisted

career guidance, cooperative/dual enrollment,information interviewing, job-hunting

Introductory Intervention

Designed to awaken a student’s interest in their own personal and professional growth. There are seven

Programs in this intervention which include career day/career fair, assessment, community members teach in classroom, guidance lesson on personal/social development,

Guidance lesson on career development, and guidance lesson on academic planning. career field trip, career aptitude

Curriculum based interventions

curriculum-based intervention defined as the class of interventions designed to promote career and

academic knowledge and skills through means and content relevant to world of work.

type of intervention include career information infused into curriculum, career/technical education

course, career skills infused into curriculum, career academy/career magnet school, school based

enterprise, student clubs/activities .

Variety of approach

Formal & Informal:Off the job activities and day to day

activities Centralized & local: central decision about people and

decentralized decisions about employees. The language chosen:organizations refer to the capabilities. The workers covered:Applied to all employee

Purpose of CDI’s

Assessment Career Options Action Planning Skill Development Vacancy Filling

Assessment

Self help packages Appraisal 360-degree feed back Development centers

Career Options

Job maps Competence Information interviews

Action Planning

Career planning courses Career work shops Career counseling Mentoring

Skill Development

Learning centers Education and training Networking Secondament Personal Development Plans

Vacancy Filling

Succession Lateral moves Vacancy system Information interviews