1. Career Development Plan

2. Why do you need your Career Development Plan?
Your Organization Needs
Improve Your Performance of Your Current Job
How to Assess Your Competencies
Explore Your Career Opportunities
IRS Career Management Resource Center
Career Learning Plan
Resources

3. Why do You Need Your Career Development Plan?
Which ones are relevant for you now?
____ You need to improve your performance of your current job.
____ Your job duties have changed recently, requiring some new skills.
____ You need to update your skills to keep up with the changing technologies
____ You want to prepare for a promotion or move to the next higher level.
____ You want to change jobs.
____ Other

4. Your Organization Needs
How is the mission of your organization changing?
What other changes are occurring regarding your customers, services, work processes, organizational structure, reporting relationships and personnel?
What are the organization’s changing needs regarding the workforce and what new expertise and skills will be required?
What new missions or projects in your organization or outside of IRS appeal to you?
What are the organization’s future needs?
What knowledge, skills or abilities would help prepare you for opportunities or you might have in the future?

5. Improve Your Performance of Your Current Job
I. Employee Satisfaction – Employee Contribution
A. Workplace Interaction
B. Workgroup Involvement
C. Workplace Environment
II. Customer Satisfaction – Knowledge
A. Identification of Customer Requirements
B. Program Knowledge
C. Technical Knowledge
III. Customer Satisfaction – Application
A. Research and Reports
B. Written Products
C. Verbal and Non Verbal Communication
IV. Business Results – Quality
A. Accuracy of Work
B. Security/Privacy/Disclosure
C. Research and Analysis
V. Business Results – Efficiency
A. Time Utilization
B. Administrative Support
C. Workload Management

6. How to Assess Your Competencies
The top 12 competencies based on supervisor and employee ratings
Decision Making
Interpersonal Skills
Teamwork
Customer Service
Problem Solving
Communication
Planning and Evaluating
Strategic Thinking
Creative Thinking
Requirements Analysis
Influencing/Negotiating
Risk Management

7. Explore Your Career Opportunities
To help you discover the array of vital positions within the IRS. You can explore new career paths by choosing to advance, make a lateral move or pursue an entirely new career.
1. Discover: Careers and the competencies needed to be successful in
Careers at the IRS
2. Explore: The possibility of your Future
3. Navigate: Learn about Careers within the IRS and the Competencies
needed to be successful in those Careers
Visit Career Management Resource Center:

10. Career Learning Plan
Employee profile - name, position title, office, grade/pay band
Career goals - short-term and long-term goals with estimated and actual completion dates
Development objectives - linked to work unit mission/goals/objectives and employee's development needs and objectives
Training and development opportunities
Signatures - supervisor and employee signature and date

11. Resources Career Development Checklist
What is a Career Learning Plan (CLP)?
IRS Career Management Resource Center
Online Career Learning Plan