ILRHR 3620

Career Development: Theory and Practice

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

Covers the theoretical and practical components underlying the development of both individual career choice & growth and organizational approaches to career management of employees. Two complementary learning tasks help students integrate theory with practice: 1) information-gathering for individual career decision-making based on serlf-reflection /self-assessment activities, and 2) comprehension of organizational circumstances and practices encountered as careers develop and organizations impact employee careers. The course is very useful if you are interested in learning key influence factors for your own career choice, and/or what underlies organizational career management systems for benefitting employees career development (HR-related). 

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Comments Grading is based on involvement with & integration of readings, guest speaker content, reflective self-assessments & short writing assignments, a networking activity, a feedback activity, and a final synthesis assignment.

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