CASE Tool 3-6: Career Path Planning
Career Path Planning is an important exercise that all firms should employ to better understand and document the strengths, weaknesses, and seniority of individual staff members and the depth of talent within the firm on a holistic level. This allows the firm to identify future recruiting needs as well as strengths and weaknesses within the current staff.
CASE recommends firm leaders undertake the exercise in CASE Tool 3-6 in advance of performance reviews to generate talking points during staff reviews (see CASE Tool 2-3: Employee Evaluations). The tool is designed to help the reviewer provide meaningful feedback to staff members during the review. It can also serve as a mechanism to share future growth plans with staff members to encourage their career growth and serve as a retention tool (see CASE Tool 1-4: Creating a Culture of Recruitment and Retention).
At a holistic level, this exercise can help a firm identify future retirements and understand the level of recruitment needed to backfill these positions.
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