CAREER AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Overview
• Career Selection
• Organizational Development
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OVERVIEW

Drake's career development services exist to help individuals maximize their career.

Historically, individuals have been left to their own devices to determine what "career" is best for them. Traditionally, careers are selected and managed through a hit-or-miss process.

• People inadvertently select educational courses early in life, and as such collect or de-select potential career paths.  
• People are sometimes glamorized or pushed into careers. Whether it is a child that grows into a young adult and always wanted to be a fireman, policeman, or other childhood hero; or; a parent that always wanted their child to be a doctor, a lawyer, or astronaut - careers are frequently selected based on false understanding of what components truly make up that particular career selection.
• People often see money before the specifics of a career. Many individuals select careers based on the potential income they can earn, but often those entering into a career do not know the "downside" of such career choices.
• People are in the right place, at the right time. You were looking for a career - and you found a job.

Occasionally - people do make the right career selection fitting their personality, talent, skills, ambition and lifestyle all together. At Drake, we aim to help individuals optimize their career potential. It is our objective to reduce the number of job changes an individual has over the course of their career, instead assisting in finding the right career fit for an individual.

Drake offers services that can include:

CAREER SELECTION

• Assessment of strengths and weaknesses, skills and behaviors
• Career sampling - be a Temporary for a week and see if you like it
• Training and development

Company and Job Selection

• Access to research
• Accessing intern programs, and work experiences that assist in finding the right company and the right job
• Help with your resume, interview techniques, compensation negotiation
• Coaching
• Mentoring

Job and Ongoing Career Management

• Ongoing development of skills and behaviors
• Understanding your workplace environment and you
• Performance management
• Mediation and conflict management
• Teambuilding and development

Job, Company, Career Transition and Retirement Services

• Assessment and development
• Coaching
• Maternity / paternity leave management services - matching contractors to meet interim needs
• Assistance in formally transitioning your job to the next person taking your job, and from the person who held your new job to you
• Become a mentor!
• Gradual retirement transition services - part-time work for retirees leveraging your skills and backgrounds

Drake's career development services will follow an individual from company to company, from job to job, towards retirement and beyond.

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Drake's corporate consulting practice is comprised of a consortium network of Organizational Development, Human Resource, and General Business Practitioners who consult with corporations to ensure that organizations goals are achieved through best use of people.

Using Drake's wide range of assessment and development technologies and tools, our team of practitioners can work with an organization to:

• Review vision and existing HR policies and procedures to ensure maximum alignment  
• Review and analyze systems, methodologies, and processes to ensure organizational goals are being supported by best-in-class systems  
• Customize existing systems or help to develop new systems including:  
• H.R.I.S - Human Resource Information Systems  
• Job Analysis and Job Descriptions  
• Performance Management  
• Certification  
• Skill and behavior development programs  
• Succession planning  
• Team analysis and team building  
• Internal recruitment and career management  
• Job transition  

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