Talent Development Career Pathways – The New Tool to Advance Your Career

Whether you have been in the talent development field for ten months or ten years, planning your next career move can feel daunting. Some people feel stuck, unsure of options. Others have a career goal in mind but are not clear how to achieve it.

Introducing Talent Development Career Pathways, your tool for career inspiration and planning. Developed with L&D career coaches and ATD research, this tool can help you explore the diverse types of work that make up talent development and then take a deeper dive into specific roles. Learn what skills are required and how your current skill profile matches up.

Join ATD’s Director of Credentialing to explore this new tool. After this session you will be able to:

• Identify the different job families in talent development
• Compare the skill requirements for various roles in talent development
• Use TD Career Pathways to compare how your current skill profile matches that necessary for specific roles
• Connect to the Talent Development Capability Model to identify resources to help you close skills gaps for your next great opportunity
• Discover resources to support your career journey

Speaker Bio

As Director of Credentialing for the Association for Talent Development, Morgean Hirt is responsible for the overall management and leadership of the ATD Certification Institute and facilitated the development of the Talent Development Capability Model, Talent Development Career Pathways and a variety of related interactive tools.  She brings over thirty years of nonprofit experience in professional certification and accreditation across a variety of professions.  As an Institute for Credentialing Excellence Certified Credentialing Professional (ICE-CCP), Morgean has devoted her career to advancing professions through the establishment of competency frameworks and industry standards, including clinical research, massage therapy, charitable fundraisers, K-12 ed tech leaders, and healthcare information systems.  Morgean provides strategic leadership and technical expertise in developing and implementing competency models and credentialing programs, focusing on policy, standards, and test development.