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Career Planning and Management
Professional Development Series, Sept. 28, 2004 Christian Reuten
How Important Is Your Career? Spiritual and mental wellbeing (spiritual and religious practices, drawing, etc.), 5
Social and personal activities (volunteer work, meeting friends, etc.), 14
Personal work (family obligations, cooking, cleaning, paper work, maintenance, gardening, etc), Career (work 15 hours, commute, training, change management, etc), 50
The 168-Hours Week
Physical wellbeing (sleep, nutrition, hygiene, exercise, rest, etc), 84
Managing Your Career
YOU are in charge! Understand the entire process Be prepared for every stage of the process, AT ALL TIMES!
1. Planning
10,000-20,000 occupations, e.g. physicist, which includes all physicists, geophysicists, meteorologists and others Research current prospective but don’t get tied up with it
3 dimensions (at least): What is my vocation? What do I want to be when I’m grown up? (e.g. Oceanographer) What environment is best for me? (e.g. non-profit organisation) Just how much academic education do I need and want to pursue? (e.g. M.Sc.) Consider any interests and constraints not reflected in the above dimensions (e.g. fear of height or blood, religious or moral constraints, chronic disease, responsibility for elderly, geographical constraints, Vocation shift work, etc)
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Education
Definitions by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (according to http://www.doleta.gov/):
Knowledge - Is a body of information applied directly to the performance of a function. Skill - Is an observable competence to perform a learned psychomotor act. Ability - Is competence to perform an observable behavior or a behavior that results in an observable product.
Basically useless because:
Who understands the latter two definitions?? Who cares??? Career councelors and employers use it in their own way, in most cases unable to tell the difference between skills and abilities.
increasing time dependence
What’s important: The totality of YOU at any given time (strongly time dependent) Vocation:
Traits (e.g. fast learner) Skills (e.g. interpersonal communication) Knowledge (e.g. migration paths of salmon) Abilities (e.g. perform strenuous work) Interests (e.g. in modern US art) Limits: true/perceived, external/internal (e.g. cannot work in Whitehorse due to lack of acceptable high school for children)
-> What colour is your parachute? -> Most important for your employer: traits, skills
2. Networking Build and treasure your network of contacts throughout the process: People, who work in the occupation of interest. Is there a good chemistry with them, do you share their interests? Mentor Referee Maybe get your foot in the door
3. Preparation Prepare for your career early: Extracurricular activities Finish a thesis Take particular classes Learn a foreign language Volunteer work
4. Information Gather as much information as possible and explore ALL channels into your job: Internet People Magazines, journals, and newspapers Libraries Employment agencies Chamber of commerce Professional and other special organisations Business breakfast, job fair, exhibitions, etc. Join a golf club
5. Attention to Detail Prepare everything with greatest care: Application documents: completeness, spelling, choice of paper, binder Prepare references and referees Planning for an interview or any personal communication: travel and arrival, clothes Ask friends and experts for advice -> Job hunting is a full-time job!
6. Practice Many of the steps in the process need practice: Interview skills Networking and keeping in touch Seminar talks and presentations Cover letters Public speaking Meetings
7. Attitude You are on the job hunt 24 x 7: Be positive and enthusiastic at all times: you never know what’s coming up Internalise your TSKAIL Have everything ready (30-sec, 2-min, 10-min interview, your entire life story, 10 success stories) Put yourself in the shows of the employer Acting does not pay off: be yourself Keep you head up in the job hunting process: rejection is the rule. The positive sides of rejection: avoided bad fit early, learn from “mistakes”
The Seven Habits of Successfully Managing Your Career 1. Plan your career. 2. Build and treasure your network of contacts 3. What preparation is needed BEFORE the start of the career 4. Gather all information 5. Pay attention to detail 6. Practise your interview skills 7. Attitude: be positive and enthusiastic at all times
Professional Development Series, Sept. 28, 2004 Christian Reuten
How Important Is Your Career? Spiritual and mental wellbeing (spiritual and religious practices, drawing, etc.), 5
Social and personal activities (volunteer work, meeting friends, etc.), 14
Personal work (family obligations, cooking, cleaning, paper work, maintenance, gardening, etc), Career (work 15 hours, commute, training, change management, etc), 50
The 168-Hours Week
Physical wellbeing (sleep, nutrition, hygiene, exercise, rest, etc), 84
Managing Your Career
YOU are in charge! Understand the entire process Be prepared for every stage of the process, AT ALL TIMES!
1. Planning
10,000-20,000 occupations, e.g. physicist, which includes all physicists, geophysicists, meteorologists and others Research current prospective but don’t get tied up with it
3 dimensions (at least): What is my vocation? What do I want to be when I’m grown up? (e.g. Oceanographer) What environment is best for me? (e.g. non-profit organisation) Just how much academic education do I need and want to pursue? (e.g. M.Sc.) Consider any interests and constraints not reflected in the above dimensions (e.g. fear of height or blood, religious or moral constraints, chronic disease, responsibility for elderly, geographical constraints, Vocation shift work, etc)
t
nm en
En vi ro
Education
Definitions by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (according to http://www.doleta.gov/):
Knowledge - Is a body of information applied directly to the performance of a function. Skill - Is an observable competence to perform a learned psychomotor act. Ability - Is competence to perform an observable behavior or a behavior that results in an observable product.
Basically useless because:
Who understands the latter two definitions?? Who cares??? Career councelors and employers use it in their own way, in most cases unable to tell the difference between skills and abilities.
increasing time dependence
What’s important: The totality of YOU at any given time (strongly time dependent) Vocation:
Traits (e.g. fast learner) Skills (e.g. interpersonal communication) Knowledge (e.g. migration paths of salmon) Abilities (e.g. perform strenuous work) Interests (e.g. in modern US art) Limits: true/perceived, external/internal (e.g. cannot work in Whitehorse due to lack of acceptable high school for children)
-> What colour is your parachute? -> Most important for your employer: traits, skills
2. Networking Build and treasure your network of contacts throughout the process: People, who work in the occupation of interest. Is there a good chemistry with them, do you share their interests? Mentor Referee Maybe get your foot in the door
3. Preparation Prepare for your career early: Extracurricular activities Finish a thesis Take particular classes Learn a foreign language Volunteer work
4. Information Gather as much information as possible and explore ALL channels into your job: Internet People Magazines, journals, and newspapers Libraries Employment agencies Chamber of commerce Professional and other special organisations Business breakfast, job fair, exhibitions, etc. Join a golf club
5. Attention to Detail Prepare everything with greatest care: Application documents: completeness, spelling, choice of paper, binder Prepare references and referees Planning for an interview or any personal communication: travel and arrival, clothes Ask friends and experts for advice -> Job hunting is a full-time job!
6. Practice Many of the steps in the process need practice: Interview skills Networking and keeping in touch Seminar talks and presentations Cover letters Public speaking Meetings
7. Attitude You are on the job hunt 24 x 7: Be positive and enthusiastic at all times: you never know what’s coming up Internalise your TSKAIL Have everything ready (30-sec, 2-min, 10-min interview, your entire life story, 10 success stories) Put yourself in the shows of the employer Acting does not pay off: be yourself Keep you head up in the job hunting process: rejection is the rule. The positive sides of rejection: avoided bad fit early, learn from “mistakes”
The Seven Habits of Successfully Managing Your Career 1. Plan your career. 2. Build and treasure your network of contacts 3. What preparation is needed BEFORE the start of the career 4. Gather all information 5. Pay attention to detail 6. Practise your interview skills 7. Attitude: be positive and enthusiastic at all times
