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We’re heading towards the end of the calendar year, an ideal time for professionals to take stock and look at where their career is heading and decide on what the next steps may be. And there is just one month to go until the launch of the new and enhanced IOSH Blueprint tool, which will revolutionise members’ professional development experience and help them ensure they’re on the right career path.
Self-assessment
Members accessing the tool for the first time will be required to undertake a self-assessment, enabling them to judge their technical, core and behavioural competencies and identify where there are gaps which need addressing if they are to realise their career objectives.
Why is this important? Being able to self-assess empowers members through enabling them to be reflective practitioners. It then allows them to see what they need to do to work towards achieving their career ambitions.
When accessing the tool, members will be able to self-select from a choice of statements that best describes their current practice. They will have a choice how they mark themselves, so the output of the self-assessment is bespoke to them.
Having done this, the tool will ask multiple choice questions – which have been written by internal and external specialists – to confirm that self-reflection. From there, members will be able to see where they meet, exceed, or have gaps linking to either maintenance of existing skills or development of new ones.
They then get to choose what areas they wish to focus on and they will be signposted to IOSH’s new and extensive CPD offer.
CPD
The CPD offering within Blueprint is packed full of resources, created by our own OSH specialists and external specialist contributors.
This library has over 900 resources which will give OSH professionals the tools they need to develop themselves.
Tony Ginda, IOSH’s head of membership engagement and development, said: 'The end of the calendar year is often a time when we consider what the next steps in our career will be and how we will achieve the objectives we and our employers set ourselves.
'The best place to start with this is through assessing yourself and there is no better way to do this than through our new Blueprint tool.
'The self-assessment function in Blueprint is easy to use and it will help the users to create their own personal development plans and see where they can enhance and develop their skills and knowledge. And who wouldn’t want to do this? Developing new skills in particular can really help to open up new doors, providing opportunities for promotion, new jobs and moving towards chartered membership.
'From here, members will be directed to the right CPD resources so they can learn and develop and work towards those all-important career goals.
'The tool contains everything you need as an OSH professional. It’s time to start planning your future.'
Your future starts here
Over the next few weeks, members will be receiving updates via email on the launch of the new Blueprint tool.
Watch this space: the countdown has begun!
