Continuing Professional Development

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• Define CPD
CPD stands for - Continuing Professional development. Continuing professional development is when you are tracking the development of a skills that you may or not may already have and recording the process of how you are going to improve it.

• Explain what the purpose of CPD is and how it can benefit you (e.g. increasing promotional prospects).
CPD is important because there are a lot of people who will be getting the same degree as you therefore to make yourself stand out you need to continue developing your skills so that you become more employable over others. It benefits you because it will make you more employable than others and make you stand out from others when people are looking at your cv comparing it to …show more content…

• You must include all of the following: Explain what they are and how they could be used in your career plan.
1. Induction training
Induction training is used when someone is first starting a job and will getting training and shown what they are going to be doing and how everything is run in the workplace. Induction training benefits because it helps the employee understand what they are meant to be doing and what is required instead of just putting them straight into working.
2. Performance appraisal
Performance appraisal is when a manager overlooks the employee to review whether they are doing the job well and what they could improve on. This could be used at the start of your career to make sure that you are getting everything right?????

3. On the job training
On the job training is when you are at the original workplace doing your job whilst training this allows the trainee to gain skills as well as working at the same time. This benefit both you as you are getting the training on the job therefore you may still be getting paid and it also benefit the business because they are not an employee down for the day as you are doing on the job training not off the …show more content…

7. Coaching
Coaching is when a professional is teaching a learner and guiding them to achieve a goal of there.

8. Projects

9. Secondments
A secondment in when an employee is transferred to a different organisation to do the same job or a different job. This is only temporarily.

10. Mentoring
Mentoring is when the trainee is with a member of staff within the business and is acting as a guide.

11. Shadowing
Shadowing is when the trainee is following someone is order to learn how to do things.

12. E-learning
E learning is electronic learning therefore using the internet to learn. This could be thing like an online course.

13. Vocational and professional courses
Vocational courses are helping you gain the basic skills from a job. Professional courses are learning everything you need to know about the job.

14. Job rotation
Job rotation is when employees are moved around to do different job this way they can improved or wide their experience.

15. Retraining
Retraining is training an employee to learn new skills from a different job or even the same job. This could be used for any kind of job so that people are learning new skills every

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