INDIVIDUAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000900070015-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 1, 1955
• Content Type: PAPER

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INDIVIDUAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLANS
An Individual Career Development Plan is a written statement
prepared by the individual in which he expresses his career inter-
ests and plans for training, rotation, reassignment or retention
in his present assignment. Such a statement should also include It"o
recommendations for putting his Plan into
effect. Supervisors and other officials responsible for the career
planning of the individual concerned review the Plan and recommend
approval, modification, or alterations to the proposals and also
may recommend or stipulate conditions which should govern the various
actions to be taken to put the Plan or phases of the Plan into effect.
The formulation of an Individual Career Development Plan stim-
ulates the individual to think in terms of his immediate and long-
range career plans and gives him the opportunity to receive counsel
and guidance by Agency officials in reference to the possibility,
feasibility, and means of implementing his plans and career program.
After a Plan has been approved by the appropriate officials, it becomes
a part of the individual's Official Personnel Folder, and thus proposed
plans of action for the personal progress of the individual., which have
been approved as being in accordance with Agency requirements and
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policies, are a matter of official record. Records of proposed future
plans for employees will assist the Agency in meeting present and
anticipated requirements for qualified personnel and at the same time
further the progress of individual employees in work areas in which
they are interested.
Individual Career Development Plans are generally made for a
period of three to five years and are subject to change by the individ-
ual concerned or Agency officials in light of existing conditions and
circumstances. Individual Career Development Plans are not made for
the sake of making a Plan but are devices for assisting individuals
in their personal progress in the Agency, if they wish assistance,
and are used as a guide to Agency officials in effecting future
personnel actions for employees which are in accordance with the
interest of the individual whenever it is possible.
It is recognized that the individual is primarily responsible
for his or her own professional development. No program can obviate
the necessity for individual initiative and resourcefulness. Since
individual differences and personal circumstances are basic factors
in determining the future plans of individuals, Individual Career
Development Plans cannot necessarily conform to any set standards.
Some individuals have not determined their major career interest and
thus do not wish to make long-range plans until a future date. Such
individuals may or may not be able to be very specific in terms of
short-range plans. Other employees may have definite ideas in con-
nection with their ultimate objedtives but need assistance in making
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immediate plans to lead to these objectives.
Attached is a suggested outline which may be followed or modified
as appropriate in the preparation of Individual Career Development Plans.
This outline has been prepared as a general guide which suggeststhe
type of information which reviewing officials and personnel management
officials need to know in order to assist the individual in planning
and implementing his career in the Agency. It is necessary that
Individual Career Development Plans should be prepared in triplicate.
The recommendations and endorsements of all reviewing officials will
be made on the original and two copies of the Plans. The original
will be filed in the individual's Official Personnel Folder, one copy
filed in the records of the appropriate Career Service, and the other
copy returned through command channels to the individual for his file.
It is also necessary that a one-page biographic brief be prepared by
the individual and submitted with the Individual Career Development'
Plan, in order that reviewing_officials may consider the individual's
previous experience, education, and other qualifications when making
recommendations on the Planvarious phases of the Plan.
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