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Our goal as an agency is to ensure you are engaged in your job and that you have the opportunity to improve your skills, grow professionally, and attain your career goals. To aid in this effort, we’ll encourage you to establish a Career Learning Plan to identify career development actions or technical training needs, or a Leadership Succession Review to map your path to leadership roles. You can take advantage of our wide variety of professional development and training resources.

Career Learning Plan

A Career Learning Plan (CLP) is a defined action plan that maps out the steps for reaching career goals. Whether you are interested in pursuing management or non-management career goals, the CLP is a formal written plan designed to document your accomplishments and goals. It identifies training needs and opportunities to be detailed to positions that will provide experience to build on your career goals. Knowledge, skills, and abilities will be enhanced and developed through the use of a CLP, which is closely monitored in collaboration with your management team.

Leadership Succession Review

The Leadership Succession Review (LSR) process provides an opportunity for all managers to become actively involved with their development while offering the IRS a standardized, repeatable process to identify potential leaders at all management levels. By formalizing the process, the IRS can better prepare for business continuity at the leadership level and address the organizational needs in a timely, efficient manner. The LSR process occurs in four stages:

  1. Stage 1 - Assessment Process
  2. Stage 2 - Conduct Talent Review Discussions
  3. Stage 3 - Roll up LSR Information to Senior Leaders
  4. Stage 4 - Provide Individual Feedback and Development Ideas

Training & Continuing Professional Education

For most of our positions, we provide comprehensive in-person and virtual classroom training, as well as on-the-job training, and continuing professional education. Some examples of the resources available to our employees include:

  • Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Career Development Opportunities: Most organizations within the IRS host CPEs each year. You’ll come together with other employees over several days to learn about specialized topics and issues.
  • E-Learning: We have a library of more than 2,000 Web-based courses, including Accounting and Finance, Leadership, Computer Software Applications, Customer Service, Project Management, Management, Communication, Human Resources, Team Building, and more. These courses are free and available 24/7 for you to take at any time of day.
  • Books 24x7 Referenceware: You’ll have full access at work and home to this online library of the best business and technology books. It’s free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • LinkedIn Learning: This is an e-Learning educational platform for employees to discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through over 16,000 expert-led courses and videos. It is adaptive and self-paced and can be mapped to competencies and goals and includes custom learning paths.