23rd October 2008, 10:42 PM
Aye, true looking back through your post I might have over-reacted. olive branch (graciously offerred) accepted.
Structured career development would be good, but I've worked in local authority which is supposedly about as structured as it gets and with the nature of the employment, you're still subject to individual manager's ptronage. Thoroughly medieval.
To be honest, I think that things have moved on lots since the heady days of the early 90's. We just need to keep the pressure on and keep the incremental movements going. All the talking, CPD and profiling the profession can only do so much. Keep doing the little things better, keep the attitude right and not give in to the pressure to bodge along like everyone's always done. It may not help us that much, but could help those feckless yoofs in the future...
For the record, I find the present IFA policy of sneaking chartering in 'through the back door' (pretty much direct quote available from senior IFA figure through the IFA website in some variey of proceedings)alarming at best.
I'm also hoping that NVQ appears soon. I'm not sure how many assessors there are already qualified, but there's a time limit (usually three years) on the currency of your assessor awards... After which you need to start over again.
CPD, fair enough. Again from local government a former colleague of a former employer was told by her line manager at a PDP meeting that her place in the organisation was like 'the sh1t on the bottom of my shoe'. You can legislate all you like, but you need to change the attitudes, particularly of an older generation.
Structured career development would be good, but I've worked in local authority which is supposedly about as structured as it gets and with the nature of the employment, you're still subject to individual manager's ptronage. Thoroughly medieval.
To be honest, I think that things have moved on lots since the heady days of the early 90's. We just need to keep the pressure on and keep the incremental movements going. All the talking, CPD and profiling the profession can only do so much. Keep doing the little things better, keep the attitude right and not give in to the pressure to bodge along like everyone's always done. It may not help us that much, but could help those feckless yoofs in the future...
For the record, I find the present IFA policy of sneaking chartering in 'through the back door' (pretty much direct quote available from senior IFA figure through the IFA website in some variey of proceedings)alarming at best.
I'm also hoping that NVQ appears soon. I'm not sure how many assessors there are already qualified, but there's a time limit (usually three years) on the currency of your assessor awards... After which you need to start over again.
CPD, fair enough. Again from local government a former colleague of a former employer was told by her line manager at a PDP meeting that her place in the organisation was like 'the sh1t on the bottom of my shoe'. You can legislate all you like, but you need to change the attitudes, particularly of an older generation.