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
As director of credentialing for the Association of Talent Development (ATD), Morgean Hirt has more than 25 years of experience in personnel certification and accreditation across a variety of professions. She provides strategic leadership and technical expertise in developing and implementing credentialing programs, focusing on test development, policy and standards development, program audits, strategic planning, and ANSI/ISO 17024 and NCCA accreditation. Believing that standards and certification enhance professionalism and credibility, Hirt has led a number of organizations through establishing industry standards for emerging professions, including clinical research, massage therapy, and mortgage brokering.
Prior to joining ATD, she served as an account executive at MetaCred, a boutique association management firm specializing in managing credentialing programs, and spent 12 years as president and CEO of Certified Fund Raising Executives International Credentialing Board, where she was responsible for establishing international support across six continents for a unified standard of fundraising practice. Hirt is also active with the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) and recently earned the Institute for Credentialing Excellence Certified Credentialing Professional (ICE-CCP) designation.
Capabilities - Career & Leadership Development, Lifelong Learning, Future Readiness.
