Guide to Learning & Development

On behalf of the Department, welcome to your career opportunity web site. Go to About HC - Organization to obtain an overview of the HCM organization.

We are going to try to guide you to the best learning and development path for you, whether you are a new, entry-level employee, an expert professional, a supervisor or manager, or a senior executive.

In all Federal agencies, employee development has seven interdependent elements:

1. Mandatory or required training
2. Individual Development Plans for all employees
3. A Process for Requesting Training
4. Individual training and development activities
5. Career Development Programs
6. Office and occupational training needs assessment and planning or Training Management
7. Training Consulting Services

Mandatory training can be DOE-wide like the Annual Ethics Training or Security Training or it can be program or site specific like the Forrestal building annual occupant safety refresher training. Mandatory Training lists DOE requirements. Program offices and local offices will have their own specific requirements.

An Individual Development Plan keys your success. We all need to set short and long term goals for ourselves and then match those goals with specific learning activities.

Individual Development Planning (goals) and Training Requests (actions) can guide you through that process.

Department employees participate in thousands, about 25,000 to 30,000, training and education activities each year. Training Choices can help you identify which ones can benefit you.

You can also tie training and education, special work assignments, and coaching and mentoring programs together in Career Development and Mission Critical Programs and use your individualTraining Choices to build toward a career objective.

At the office level, training plans combine work improvement objectives and training needs assessments to identify training objectives and budget. We cannot build a highly competent, motivated, and innovative workforce if we do not consider Training Management and Training Consulting Services important.

We are prepared to help at each river crossing and mountain range along your career path. The people to work with you can be found by topic and alphabetically at HC Contacts. If you have comments or suggestions on our website, we in the Office of Innovations and Solutions, and, more specifically, the Enterprise Training Service, at DOE.CAREERS@HQ.DOE.GOV would like to hear from you.

Page last updated: 10/16/2008