Managing your own career

This workshop, tailored for people professionals at the beginning of their careers, offers insight into the evolving nature of HR roles and provides proven tools and techniques to support effective career planning and development.

• What is 'career management'?
• How careers have developed and changed.
• Understanding why people need to develop and manage their own careers
• The four-stage model
• Self-awareness
• Career exploration
• Decision making
• Plan implementation
• To research and utilise available resources and possible career routes
• Developing tools and techniques to manage your career
• The importance of lifelong learning and continuing professional development
• Useful resources to aid career planning
• 'Take aways' The importance of having a career plan / action planning

About the speaker

Alistair Stirling

Alistair Stirling, the owner of Stirling Careers Consultancy, will run the workshop. He currently works with a whole range of clients of varying ages to help them plan their careers. Also, he has previously worked with health professionals helping them to plan and manage their careers within the NHS.

He now provides careers and outplacement support to small and medium-size businesses who are having to let people go. He works with many clients who want to make a career change and those who wanting help in developing their career. He has delivered this workshop to Bromley Council employees and to both North and South London CIPD members. He has previously mentored HR professionals as part of the CIPD mentoring programme. He is a qualified, registered, independent careers adviser.

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