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Career Development
Schoonover Associates has developed specific competency-based tools, techniques and training to aid in successful career development processes and programs. In addition, Dr. Schoonover collaborated on a book published in 2001 -- Your Soul at Work: Five Steps to a More Fulfilling Career and Life by Nicholas Weiler and Stephen C. Schoonover, M.D. (See http://www.yoursoulatwork.com and http://www.schoonover.com/soulatwork/CareerandLifeWorkbook.htm).
Through years of research, we have determined that excellent career planning requires a foundation in three areas:
- Role-specific competencies: These success factors focus on what the organization wants from an individual.
- Preferred competencies: These attributes represent those skills and abilities that an individual excels at and enjoys performing at the same time. In other words, these success criteria focus on what an individual -- not the organization -- wants to do.
- Life values: These criteria focus on the characteristics of an individual's total work environment. They focus more on the elements that support an individual's emotional or spiritual satisfaction (such as how a work setting supports friendship, service, creativity, wealth, etc.) These attributes change significantly across an individual's life span.
In our consulting practice we frequently design and implement entire competency-based career systems. Projects range from application of off-the-shelf competencies in a generic planning process and course to highly-customized approaches using organization-specific competencies and techniques such as online toolkits and assessments with our Voyager application.
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