Bite-Size Medical Research Council – Career Management Welcome Anita Edmonds – Penna

Workshop Objectives To encourage more ownership and activism around career development To be more aware of own key motivators, values and drivers at work To allow time to think about careers paths & directions to date and future options To think about how you can present your CV as achievement based To consider future options Commitments Introductions, and expectations Action Planning & Close Career Activism Exploring & Evaluating Options & paths Achievement based CVs & STAR model Roadmap Career Anchors

Career Development Framework

Career Activism Career ActivistCareer Passivist A person who takes direct action to achieve an end A person who adopts a policy of vigorous action in a cause Energetic, diligent, industrious A person who is not active or does not participate perceptibly in an activity, organisation A person who is unresisting and receptive to external forces A person offering no opposition Not active, inert, submissive Career + Activist = take control of my path through employment and influence direction, events and forces Career + Passivist = let my path through employment drift and be influenced by external events and forces A career is “the sequence of employment-related positions, roles, activities and experience encountered by a person during their lifetime”. Increasingly as individuals, we are being required to take more control of managing our own careers. The attributes of a Career Activist: Adaptability, Tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty, Self-management, Versatility, Resilience, Creativity

Pre work Career Activism quiz ….. Find a buddy for 5 minutes of co-coaching each and pick one of your answers that you circled either RED or AMBER that YOU ARE HAPPY TO SHARE!  Which statement have you chosen and what do you need to do to move from Red to Amber or Amber to Green?  What will the pay-off or upside be for getting there?  How might you “self-sabotage” getting there?

Career Anchors Questionnaire Understanding Your Individual Anchors

Career Anchors  Your perception of your own areas of competence, motivators and values  Sense of ‘the real me’  Consider highest & lowest scores against jobs you’ve enjoyed most and least.  How can you make your current role fit your Career Anchor profile?  What will you do?

Five career paths  Horizontal  Moving sideways  Vertical  Moving up  Cyclical  Plateau/Steady State  Developing where you are  Spiral or Helter Skelter  Moving sideways

Six directions to achieve career paths  Promotion (moving up)  Enrichment/Broadening role (adding tasks and responsibilities to current role)  Deepening (staying put to achieve depth and mastery in role)  Transfer (moving out of department or function or unit or division, can include redeployment)  Rotation (moving around – assignment, project, secondment)  Exiting (resigning, redundancy, retirement)

 Own Career Paths and Directions?  Any patterns emerging?  Focus on just one type?  Which directions link most to your own changes or moves in career? Your paths & directions to date

Career Options – main choices Same Job, Same area of the business Same Job Different area of the business Different Job, Same area of the business Different Job, Different area of the business

Consider….  What do you need to know about the job?  What more do you need to know about it?  What attracts you to it?  Who could answer your questions?  What deters you?  What do you need to know about the other areas of the business?  What attracts you to it/them?  What assumptions could you challenge?  Who could you ask?  What deters you?

CV’s – Achievement Focus STAR Model (Situation, Task, Actions, Results) Grant applications Leadership experience Management experience Journal writing Sucesses

Options Academia Staying in science Journalism Corporate roles Policy making Editor Advisors to the not for profit sector/charities Investment companies – manager of research portfolio

Evaluating Options  List all the relevant factors/attributes  Give each a weighting  Take current role as a control  Assign score out of 10 for each factor  Multiply by weighting value  Also apply ‘gut’ feel for preference  Compare scores for each option  Evaluate whether any scores for each factor could be improved  Challenge own ‘de-selection logic’  Think flexibly about what’s possible  Use buddy to help find solutions  Discuss with line manager

Setting Career Goals  Short term – 6 months  Medium term – months  Longer term – in 3 years  SMARTER goals (Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely, engaging and reviewed)  Prepare for ‘Career Discussion’ with buddy  Decide what time period you want to focus on  Plan for discussion with mentor/line manager  What do you commit to today?

Name: NOW My Commitment 6 mths and beyond

Any final thoughts / questions? Any questions?