Mana gi ng Car eer s

WHO MANAGES YOUR

CAREER?

❚ MOM
❚ DAD
❚ ACADEMIC
ADVISOR
❚ CAREER CENTER
❚ FRIEND (_________)
❚ HR GUY AT WORK
 WHO MANAGES YOUR
CAREER?

❚ THEY CAN ALL

HELP, BUT IT
BETTER BE

❚ YOU
CAREER DEFINITION

❚ WHAT DID YOUR

FRIENDS SAY - DO
THEY HAVE A JOB
OR A CAREER?
❚ HOW DID THEY
DESCRIBE A
DIFFERENCE?
❚ WHAT DO YOU
THINK?
 WHAT IS A CAREER?

❚ Pattern
❚ Work-related
experiences
❚ Life span
❚ Commitment
❚ Persistence
❚ Advancement
❚ Success
FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL
AND ORGANIZATION

❚ Dual perspective
❙ Individual
❙ Organizational
❚ Emphasis here?
Organizational
❚ Balance and
consideration of
both
 INDIVIDUAL CAREER
MANAGMENT
❙ Personal goals
❙ Achievement of
goals
❙ Life planning and
analysis
❙ Balancing work and
family, other
priorities
❙ Training, education
 ORGANIZATIONAL
CAREER MANAGEMENT
❙ Tracking career
paths
❙ Developing career
ladders
❙ Monitoring special
groups
❙ Organizational
career planning
❙ Job needs
 CAREER COMPARED TO
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT

❚ Longer time frame

than employee
development
❚ Focus on long term
❙ Success
❙ Effectiveness
❚ Compatible
❙ Long term needs
❙ Dynamic changes
 VALUE TO THE
ORGANIZATION

❚ Needed talent pool

❚ High talent workers
❙ Attract
❙ Retain
❚ Growth,
development
opportunities
❙ Minorities
❙ Women
❚ AND….
VALUE TO THE
ORGANIZATION

❚ Reduce employee
frustration
❚ Enhance cultural
diversity
❚ Promote
organizational
goodwill
 VALUE TO THE
INDIVIDUAL
❚ EXTERNAL
❙ Extrinsic
❙ Objective

❚ INTERNAL
❙ Intrinsic
❙ Subjective

❚ MOTIVATIONS ARE
DIFFERENT
 EXTERNAL VALUE TO
THE INDIVIDUAL

❚ Status - hierarchy
❚ Flexibility
❚ Opportunity-
promotion
❚ Money
 INTERNAL VALUE TO THE
INDIVIDUAL

❚ Meaning
❚ Respect
❚ Family
❚ Relationships
❚ Satisfaction
CAREER STEPS

❚ Exploration
❚ Establishment
❚ Mid-career
❚ Late-career
❚ Decline
 EXPLORATION

❚ Training
❚ Trying lots of
options
❚ Finding what you
like
❚ New beginnings
❚ Find a mentor
 ESTABLISHMENT

❚ Putting down roots

❚ Sending up shoots
❚ Becoming an
expert
❚ Making your mark
❚ Have a mentor
MID-CAREER

❚ Level of comfort
❚ Demonstrated
success
❚ Maybe boredom,
time to start over
❚ Maybe satisfaction,
enjoyment
❚ Be a mentor
 LATE-CAREER

❚ Be a mentor
❚ Coach
❚ Energy devoted
elsewhere
❚ New or different
interests
❚ Influencer, more
powerful
 DECLINE

❚ Retirement
❚ Change of life
focus
❚ Legacy
 VOCATIONAL
PREFERENCES

❚ People have
different
preferences
❚ People work better
at jobs they like
❚ Communication is
better between
workers with
similar interests
 VOCATIONAL
PREFERENCES

❚ Realistic
❚ Investigative
❚ Artistic
❚ Social
❚ Enterprising
❚ Conventional
PREFERENCE DIMENSIONS

❚ Being with people

❙ Realistic
❙ Social
❚ Action
❙ Investigative
❙ Enterprising
❚ Who provides
structure?
❙ Artistic
❙ Conventional
 SCHEIN CAREER
ANCHORS (PREFERENCE)

❚ Technical-
functional
competence
❚ Managerial
competence
❚ Security-stability
❚ Creativity
❚ Autonomy-
independence
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
AND JOBS

❚ Jungian personality
typology
❚ Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator(MBTI)
❚ Match individual
characteristics with
job characteristics
❚ Similar to
vocational
preferences
MBTI DIMENSIONS

❚ Orientation to the
outer world
❚ Information
gathering source
❚ Information
evaluation process
❚ Closure seeking
 MBTI - OUTER WORLD

❚ Extraversion (E)
❙ Energy builds with
people

❚ Introversion (I)
❙ Energy drained with
people
INFORMATION
GATHERING

❚ Sensing (S)
❙ Focus on what is

❚ Intuitive (N)
❙ Focus on what
might be
 INFORMATION
EVALUATION

❚ Thinking (T)
❙ Linear, rational

❚ Feeling (F)
❙ Holistic
CLOSURE SEEKING

❚ Judging (J)
❙ Once it’s done, it’s
done

❚ Perceiving (P)
❙ Always willing to
reopen a subject
 CAREER SUGGESTIONS

❚ Select first job

carefully
❙ Power department
❚ Do good work
❚ Project the right
image
❚ Learn the power
structure
❚ AND….
MORE CAREER
SUGGESTIONS

❚ Gain control of
organizational
resources
❚ Stay visible
❚ Don’t stay too long
❚ Find a mentor
❚ Support your boss
❚ Stay mobile
❚ AND….
 MORE CAREER
SUGGESTIONS

❚ Think laterally
❚ Internships
❚ Acquire skills
❚ Upgrade skills
❚ Develop network
❚ AND….
TO KEEP YOUR CAREER
GOING (D.A.T.A.)

❚ D esire
❙ More than
experience
❚ A bility
❙ Can’t quit growing
❚ T emperament
❙ Security is a thing
of the past
❚ A ssets
❙ Networking, skills,
etc.
Career Stages
Holland’s General Occupational Themes
Structure of Holland’s Themes
Characteristics Frequently Associated with
Myers-Briggs Types
Steps in Managing Your Career