People are the most important assets for an organization. Career planning and development (cpd) is a clear way to develop and reveal the bond between the organization and the employees. The practice of cpd is concerned with one of the two primary roles of hrm in organizations, i.e. To obtain and to retain employees. Specifically, cpd aims to retain human talent and utilize career systems, aligned with the aims and objectives of the organization and fitting with the contemporary industry trends. However, cpd is easier said than done. More often than not, it requires organizations to understand the contemporary trends and have the foresight to capture the evolving nature of these trends in the future, and the implications of these trends for the way talent has to be developed and retained within organizations. This course sheds light on just those areas. It focuses on both at the organizational level, e.g. Career planning, systems, support, etc., and at the individual level, e.g., employability, selecting careers, building careers, etc.