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Design Your Own Career Path

For all Yukon Government Employees:
Have you got a Career and Personal Development plan? Can we help you?

• How are you preparing yourself for career growth opportunities?
• Have you decided you want to take your career in a new direction and want to pursue training to support your efforts?
• Have you wanted to develop your leadership skills but can’t take the time to participate in one of YG’s leadership programs?
• Are you looking for a self-directed approach to learning that you can pursue over time and fit into your busy schedule?
• Are you new to YG and want to learn more about the organization’s systems and practices?
• Are you recognizing a need to pick up skills to improve your style of working with others?
• Finally…are you aware of the opportunities available to you to respond to the above questions?

We ask because there are training and development opportunities offered in YG to help you meet your needs along your developmental path and prepare for future career opportunities.

We believe that career growth is the result of following three approaches - from planning your career . . . to learning more about yourself and your interests . . . to experiencing personal development and growth in your life situations.

Planning can help you explore your goals, achieve results, direct your energies and unleash your potential. The key to career planning is to remember that it is your plan which is based on your dreams, hopes and goals: you can change it and you choose how to achieve the results.

Consciously exploring your purpose, short and long term goals and the steps you will take to meet those goals, are first steps to achieving them.

To help you in planning, you can:

• access the Career and Assessment Centre (667-5613) 
• use self-directed goal-setting tools
• talk with your supervisor about integrating your career plans into your work plans
• pursue opportunities to work with those in the career you aspire to reach (e.g. succession planning)

Learning is more than acquiring knowledge or skills. It also involves discovering more about yourself, your interests, your desire for challenge and in what role(s) you best fit.

Opportunities for learning are many, including:

• in-class training (YG or Yukon College courses)
• E-learning
• project assignments
• self-directed learning (attending conferences, classes, workshops, etc.)
• professional technical training (tuition reimbursement)
• networking, coaching and mentoring

There is nothing quite like putting your acquired skills into practice, integrating new personal insights into your life experience and noticing what happens as a result. An improved relationship, recognition from others for your contribution to the workplace, confidence in your abilities, awareness of a new goal to reach for…just makes you want to learn more!

There are many ways to put learning into action, including:

• pursuing acting assignments, secondments, job rotations or temporary assignments
• requesting developmental assignments
• volunteering or community work
• changing jobs
• sharing your learning with peers and applying it to workplace processes

If you view learning as a life long journey, we invite you to take a look at the wide range of learning opportunities in this, and future issues of the Quarterly. We hope that the choices you find will offer you what you need on your career and personal development path.

You will need to submit a Training Request Form  [40.73 KB] to register for these learning sessions.

Please contact Staff Development at 867-667-8198 for any registration related questions.

Design Your Own Career Path

• Design Your Own Career Path - Module Descriptions [45.31 KB ]
  This document describes the specific modules, dates and lengths of the sessions.
• YG Systems and Practices [25.67 KB ]
  A new series of learning sessions offered in the fall of 2009.

• Last Updated: 8/12/2009 |
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