VOICE-OVER: All civil servants can design their own careers.
The Job Family System helps them to do this.
The Job Family System comprises fifty-five job groups,
placed under eight job families.
Each job group has learning trajectories specifying the requirements for work
at a higher salary level in the job group.
Moreover, each job group has career steps specifying the other job groups
in which you can advance your career.
Let's take a look at how staff members can design their own careers.
This is Frank. Frank is a Custodial Institution Assistant
and has been working at the Ministry of Justice for about fifteen years.
Frank has carefully examined the learning trajectories
for the Custodial Institution Assistant job group.
Thanks to these learning trajectories he was able to discover
how he ought to develop in his work in order to advance his career.
Frank has been promoted from salary scale six to eight
by self-development and by applying for vacant posts.
Frank cannot advance his career as a Custodial Institution Assistant any further.
He has now decided to design his own career
and uses the Job Family System to focus on a different type of work.
Frank enters his present job group and salary scale in the Job Family System.
Here he can see what career steps he can take.
Frank compares the description of the different job groups
with the description of his present job group.
Frank likes the sound of the job group Operational Traffic Management Officer
at the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
He sees that there is a vacancy in the job group
and decides to apply for the job immediately.
If the job application procedure is successful,
Frank can start his new job in a few weeks.