1. Career Planning: Unnecessary? or Complete Waste of Time?

2. Career Planning: Your Key to Happiness and Success

3. Where You Are Now  98.274% of graduating students say they know what they want to do when they graduate  94% of them are lying  It’s OK not to know, but...

4. A True Story  Beware the herd mentality (You are not the person sitting next to you!)  You have to create your own unique career path  Understanding your own personality is crucial

5. Four Common “But…”s  I don’t have the time!  Just show me the money!  Just show me an offer!  I just want to keep all my options open!

6. Key Components of Career Success and Satisfaction  Deeply embedded life interests  Work reward values  Relevant abilities

7. The Three CareerLeader ® Assessment Instruments:  Business Career Interest Inventory  Management and Professional Reward Profile  Management and Professional Abilities Profile

8. CareerLeader Is:  Scientifically based, using a sample of over 8600 business professionals in a wide variety of functions, industries and levels  Used by over 175 MBA, undergraduate business programs and corporations worldwide

9. Interests  Are a “deep structure” aspect of personality  You develop a unique interest signature by early adulthood that is highly stable over your lifetime

10. Core Business Interests  Application of Technology  Quantitative Analysis  Theory Development  Creative Production  Counseling and Mentoring  Managing People and Relationships  Enterprise Control  Influence – Language and Ideas

11. Patterns of Satisfaction People with different Core Business Interests are excited by, and tend to be most successful in, different roles in organizations.

12. Management and Professional Reward Profile  Is universally loathed – but still a good thing  Forces you to make trade-offs  Results in shopping list with high scores being “must-haves,”

13. MPRP Reward Values Financial gain Managing people Variety Intellectual challenge Lifestyle Autonomy Altruism Prestige Security Affiliation Recognition Power and influence Positioning

14. Management and Professional Abilities Profile  Is less universally loathed (but still hated) – and still a good thing  Focuses on business-relevant abilities  Three sets of scores: internal ranking (like MPRP), self comparison to peers, and optional “360 º ” feedback

15. MPAP Abilities Critical thinking Quick thinking Quantitative analysisCreativity Power orientationLeveraging Action orientation Multi-focus Confidence Teamwork Communication Sociability Leading/Managing

16. CareerLeader...  Measures your interests, values, skills  Based on sophisticated algorithms using those measures recommends careers to consider  Provides information about those careers

17. Key CareerLeader Tools  Personal Summary  Business Career Profiles  CultureMatch and Cultural Dimensions  Career Breakdowns  Test results, Entrepreneurial Attributes, Career Interest Patterns

18. Benefits of Career Assessment  Focus and efficiency  Determining the right career path(s)  Avoiding the wrong career paths  Culture matching  Effective selling

19. In a Challenging Economy:  If you make a change… having a clear career vision is essential to finding the right path  If you return to your former company or industry… having that vision is essential to making your case