Job Fair 26 June 2012

Managing your career

Navigating your working life until Retirement and beyond

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Career Success is an Important Ingredient of Life Success
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Work & Life

DENMARK Thriving:82 Struggling:17 Suffering: 1 TOGO Thriving:1 Struggling: 67 Suffering:31

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Make sure you define Success correctly!

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Coveys wisdom

How many people in their deathbed

wish they had spent more time in the Office?

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Your Money or your Life*

Money is something we trade our life energy for

* Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

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Career Anchors by Schein

ANCHOR
Technical /Functional General Managerial

DRIVER
Intrinsic to job Responsability & challenge

REWARD
Paid for competence High income/ Feeling of Power

PROMOTION
Professional ladder Based on potential for higher resp.

Autonomy
Security/ Stability Entrepreneurial Creativity Service/ Cause Challenge Lifestyle

Work within ones expertise

Predictable work. Tenure Creating your own company Making world a better place Competition with yourself Balance

Flexibility
Seniority-based Proving your own ability to succeed Fair play The thrill itself Not too important

Merit pay
Career system Irrelevant Not so important To a job with more challenge ! Which allows sustainability 7

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Three NOTIONS of Success

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Administrative Support & Coordination

External Relations
Policies

Languages

Finance, Budget Contracts

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Career Management is about Decisions

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Right, Left of Straight?

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Career as a succession of jobs

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Job
YOU Job 1

YOU Job 2

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YOU

Job

Two key issues: right time right place.

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Life-based approach

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Making a good decision is more emotional that you might think
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Decision making

PERCEPTION

ANALISYS

CHOICE

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Perception

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Analysis

You know how to do that

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Choices

SELF
RECOGNITION SELF-AWARENESS Awareness of Emotions Accurate Self-Assessment

OTHERS
SOCIAL AWARENESS Empathy Organisational awareness Openness to Others

Self-Confidence

REGULATION

SELF-MANAGEMENT Self-Control Adaptability Initiative

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT Bonding skills

Team-playing skills
Conflict Management
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Take your career decisions seriously

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Career Decision Issues

YOUR PROFILE OPTIONS MATCH ACTION PLAN

Values Strengths Interests Environments

Your Network

Time Horizon Short-term Long-Term Job Opps: Current Future

Assess Choices: Short-term Long-Term PMI Decide Go/No-Go Consequences

CV & Motivation Job Interview On-Boarding Training

Networking

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Profile: Johari Window

KNOWN TO SELF NOT KNOWN TO SELF

KNOWN TO OTHERS

OPEN

BLIND

NOT KNOWN TO OTHERS

HIDDEN

UNKNOWN

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Options
Career Dilemmas

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Match
Explore

PLUS

MINUS

INTERESTING

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Action Plan
CV: Achievements Motivation: You, I, Us Interview:
Show you did homework Be structured: a), b) & c) Address their fears

On-Boarding:
Boss expectations Disclose who you are Get a mentor

Training:
For current job For future job

Networking
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In a nutshell

Career: your whole professional life Management: steering with the right decisions

Success: satisfying your aspirations

Key success factor: knowing yourself

THANKS!!
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