Career and Professional Development Planner

The Career and Professional Development Planner (CPDP) has been prepared, therefore, to assist you plan for enhanced performance in your present job and for your future career development. It is an attempt to help you analyse your experience, synthesize your skills and knowledge, and realise your future expectations.

Your Development

When reviewing your development you might find it helpful to breakdown your knowledge and expertise as follows:

To assess your ‘standard achieved’ it is recommended that the following ‘hierarchy of understanding’ be used or adopted:

A-Application i.e. general understanding of an activity

K-Knowledge i.e. knowing how the activity is carried out; this being additional to general understanding

E-Experience i.e. of the relevant techniques and functions of the activity, so that the activity has been undertaken independently and is additional to an ‘appreciation’ and ‘knowledge’ of it.

B-Ability i.e. performing the function and instruction/supervising/managing others involved with it, thus also displaying ‘appreciation’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘experience’.

The above hierarchy can also be graded on a scale from 5 to 1 where 5 equals ‘fully achieved’ and 1 equals ‘not achieved’.