Innovating New Career Development Tools

At the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, we have designed a suite of innovative tools to support individuals in navigating their career transitions. These tools foster self-awareness, flexibility, and creativity in career planning, empowering users to make informed decisions about their professional futures.

Career Journey Map

Target Audience:
For individuals seeking to understand their career progression, plan future moves, and gain clarity at any professional stage.

Description:
The Career Journey Map is an interactive visual tool that allows users to reflect on their career and life transitions. It offers a hands-on method for individuals to map out key events in their professional and personal lives, helping them to identify patterns and potential future directions.

Outcome:
This tool helps foster self-awareness and provides a comprehensive view of one’s career trajectory, enabling users to make confident decisions about their next steps.

Career Quest Cards

Target Audience:
Individuals looking to explore personal career priorities and plan their next moves.

Description:
Career Quest Cards are designed as an interactive card game, helping users explore and clarify their career priorities in a structured yet engaging manner. Through hands-on manipulation and gamified experiences, it makes self-discovery engaging and intuitive, reaching beyond the confines of traditional text-based methods.

Outcome:
By the end of the activity, users gain clarity on their career priorities and actionable steps for their future.

Skills Swap

Target Audience:
Individuals aiming to broaden their professional identities and consider new career opportunities.

Description:
Skills Swap is a role-playing card game that helps users expand their understanding of their skills and how they can apply them in new industries. It encourages flexibility in thinking about professional identities and fosters creativity by presenting unfamiliar career options that users may not have previously considered.

Outcome:
Users develop a more dynamic understanding of their potential, uncover hidden talents, and gain the confidence to explore new professional avenues.

What’s Next GPT

Target Audience:
For individuals exploring their next career steps.

Description:
Complementing the Skills Swap tool, What’s Next GPT identifies possible next career moves by combining professional and personal tasks, hobbies, and passions with work-life priorities. It generates creative and practical recommendations for career transitions.

Outcome:
Users gain insight into potential career moves that align with their skills, interests, and priorities, making it easier to chart their next steps.

Do-With-Them

Target Audience:
Individuals who prefer collaborative guidance in navigating career transitions.

Description:
The “Do-With-Them” approach offers personalized, hands-on support by working collaboratively with individuals to help them achieve their career goals. Unlike traditional advisory models, this tool emphasizes a partnership where users and experts jointly explore potential paths, create strategies, and implement actions.

Outcome:
This method fosters a sense of ownership while providing users with the support they need to take actionable steps toward their career aspirations.

Employability Self-Assessment for Older Adults

Target Audience:
Older adults (above 40 years old) who are exploring career options to remain employable up till or beyond current statutory retirement age.

Description:
The self-assessment comprises four parts:

• Self-Perception of Aging
• Alignment with Employer’s Requirements
• Career Adaptivity
• Openness to Informal Learning

Outcome

The desired outcome attained by the participant will complement the traditional outside-in, top-down approach in facilitating employability preservation for the aging worker. By helping the aging worker to become more savvy and proactive in aligning personal employability intentions with organizational needs, the process greatly reduces ambiguity for workforce planning.