1. CAREER MANAGEMENT: Knowing you and your value
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3. What is Career Management?
Structured planning + active management of one’s own professional career = Career Management
Successful career management outcomes = personal fulfillment, work/life balance, goal achievement and financial security….
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4. Career Management Process
1. Self-Assessment
2. Getting Feedback
3. Researching
4. Making a Plan
5. Executing the Plan
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5. Career Management Model
Self Awareness
Career Awareness
Goal Setting
Skill Development
Relationship Building
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6. Self-Assessment The Six Invaluable Factors*
Demand
Ability
Irreplaceability
Focus
Connection
Authority
* adapted from the book Invaluable: The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable by Dave Crenshaw
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7. Self-Assessment Role Fit Personality Type & Work Style
Career Interests
Career Values
Skills
Career Direction
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9. Career Awareness
How does your value apply to opportunities within your organization and wider world of work/
How knowledgeable are you of career paths and job opportunities internally and externally?
Do you have the skills and qualifications required to be successful in those positions?
What information sources are available to you: Internet, colleagues, managers
You decide the fit of an org’s culture with your personal goals, values and work style
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12. Goal Setting
Process of integrating self-assessment, career awareness into career goals that reflect your vision of what you want
Focus on taking action
Career development action plan
Short & long term goals
How will you build & maintain professional network and community of support
Road map to guide actions, keep forward momentum, stay open to happenstance
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13. Goal Setting Career Vision
Creating a Career Vision for Your Life: Envisioning Your Ideal Career by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
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14. Skill Development Assess which skills are important for desired career
Speak with manager / career mentors
Identify skills needed for mobility
Seek out on-the-job opp’s
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15. Skill Development On the job (70%) Interaction with others (20%)
Cross-functional teams
Job shadowing
Job rotation
Interaction with others (20%)
Having or being a mentor
Coaching
Communities of practice
Training (10%)
Classes, seminars, webinars, podcasts, conferences
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16. Skill Development Education and Training Developmental experiences
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17. Relationship-Building
Know yourself and your goals
Share with others, clearly & enthusiastically
Listen to & be interested in others
Seek feedback
Reciprocate and be generous with your time
I.d. who you want to develop relationships with
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18. Relationship-Building
What kind of relationships do you want with current network
Update current network periodically
Don’t expect one person to play every possible function in your development
Diversify and diversity
Thank people
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19. Relationship-Building
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20. Change & Career Resilience
Curiosity
Persistence
Flexibility
Optimism
Risk-Taking
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21. Questions
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22. Sandra Marin www.sandramarininc.com 780-504-1299
THANK YOU
Sandra Marin
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