Read more about the responsibility of each group towards Career Development and explore the recommended tools to help you prepare career conversations and reflect more on what path best matches your aspirations and skills.
Plan my Career
Associates’ responsibility
You have personal responsibility for your own development – you’re in the driver’s seat. Decide what you want, communicate your aspirations, ask for feedback, network, explore ideas, set up career discussions, identify a career mentor, find jobs and apply to the right ones. Review the Mars Finance career principles and leverage the Career Planning Toolkit a few times a year to ensure you stay on the right path.
Action
Use the Plan Your Career Self-Reflective Workbook to ask yourself the right questions and plan your career in a meaningful way. This toolkit is designed to help you reflect on your career aspirations, prepare for meaningful conversations with your manager and highlight potential next steps for your developmental journey.
Manager responsibility
Successful and sustainable development is best accomplished when you work directly with your manager, who has accountability to provide support and growth opportunities throughout your development. Managers can use their networks to help develop, coach and counsel you, share potential opportunities, provide feedback, suggest options for a career mentor, and offer stretch experiences.
Action
Managers use the Prepare for Career/Development Conversations with Your Associates Workbook. This toolkit provides good background on coaching/mentoring and tools to support development conversations with your Associates.
Organization responsibility
You can also count on Mars University and your P&O teams to support you by providing a range of tools and resources to help you create and bring to life a high-quality development plan. Mars provides opportunities for growth, career tools, and leadership and functional capability related content, and takes great pride in developing our Associates.
Action
Visit https://mars.edcast.com/ to view more about developmental tools Mars offers. Use the search bar or “discover” tab to guide your research. There, you will find more about skills and career possibilities in other functions.