Becoming career smart (Deakin university )2

KFC’s #myplan

Corporations are increasingly developing programs that enable employees to become more self-reflective.

KFC ® Australia’s #myplan program provides a framework to engage team members in self-reflection, self-evaluation and goal setting. This helps them to understand the employability skills they have obtained in their career at KFC, and also prompts them to look for new career opportunities such as promotions or new roles inside and external to the organisation. It is an innovative plan for a large organisation to develop its’ staff and take them to new levels, which will benefit the employee and the company.

KFC developed the #myplan program to promote employee engagement and retention, as well as to identify a talent pipeline within the company.

KFC Australia’s chief people officer, Rob Phipps stated: 

It gives them more specific examples of where the conversations might go … It tells them how they should be planning for the conversations and takes them through all the different aspects to make sure that they’re set up in the right way to have this conversation.

Employees of KFC are encouraged to share their #myplan goals with parents, career advisors and other key stakeholders.

Skills audit

Now you are going to put self-reflection into practice.

Your assessment task is a skills audit; it is a process for considering and recording the skills that you have picked up and developed in your career thus far. This task is not graded, but it will be beneficial for you to do in order to reflect and further develop your professional skills.

Conducting a skills audit is an important step when you are planning any career change and will help you plot out:

• what skills you have
• what levels they are at
• what evidence you have to demonstrate the skills and their levels.

Your skills-audit journey

Now that you have finished your skills audit, we can consider and reflect on the process.

You may have identified new skills that you would like to develop or existing skills you would like to strengthen. You may find you are fairly content with your skill matching for the career you have chosen. You may have found a new career path you may like to pursue.

Your questions answered

We hope that you’ve enjoyed learning about how to identify and sell your key strengths and skills and you will come away from this course with some practical strategies that you can implement in either your own personal situation or workplace setting.

In this final step of the course, you have the opportunity to ask our educators any questions you might still have about the material you’ve covered.

How do I ask a question? Submit your question in the discussion. We encourage you to keep your questions short and clearly focused so we can answer as many as possible.

What questions will be answered? As we won’t be able to answer every question, we encourage you to like the questions most important to you. We’ll respond to the most liked or thematically popular questions posted.

How will questions be answered? Our educators will answer the most popular questions in the discussion.

When do I need to ask my question?Please add your question to the discussion before the end of this week.

When will questions be answered? We’ll post our responses to your questions, early in the following week once all your questions have been posted.