Decide: Act and Grow
Yes, Michelle now needs to establish focus by setting a career goal and considering the experiences, capabilities, and connections needed to shape her development plan in order to realize her aspirations for a lateral career move.
Key Considerations
- Based on Michelle’s list of career options, she should make an informed decision about what option(s) meet her personal brand best. What career does she want to pursue?
- It’s important for Michelle to populate her career preferences and job interests in her career profile in Workday.
Steps
- Confirm her decision with her people leader.
- Populate key career profile fields in Workday.
- Start the development planning process.
Michelle and her people leader agree on creating a career and development plan that allows her to develop critical skills to make a lateral move to a Professional Level 7 role in digital communications. With Michelle and her people leader in agreement that a role in digital communications is a good match for her, she updates her job interests in Workday to reflect this type of job profile so she can be alerted to future postings.
Now that Michelle has successfully completed the three stages of the career planning phase, it’s time for her to move to the next phase: development planning.
