CAREER MANAGEMENT

WHAT IS CAREER MANAGEMENT?

PROCESS OF ASSESSING, ALIGNING AND BALANCING ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL NEEDS, CAPABILITIES, OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES THROUGH MULTIPLE APPROACHES AND METHODS

FOUR STEPS

CAREER MINDSET

SELF-ASSESSMENT

CAREER PLAN

PLAN OF ACTION

CREATE A CAREER “MINDSET”

Image of your Career i.e. sailboat Controlling your destiny Directing a course

Manage your career like an entrepreneur Is what your selling in demand? Who is interested? Who is the competition What do you do in an economic downturn?

Notion of Lifelong Learning Make learning a job requirement Add value to the workplace Be a “STAR”

SELF-ASSESSMENTWWW.ASSESSMENT.COM

Self Assessment is a process by which you learn more about yourself—what you like, what you don’t like, and how you tend to react to certain situations i.e. Strengths

BENEFIT OF SELF ASSESSMENT

Self awareness about work styles and strengths Clarify career direction Experience tools and methods in preparation for

using them with others Develop thinking and clarify values about the

responsibility of the organization in the development of employees

SELF ASSESSMENTTWO TYPES

Self-Directed-tools designed to use and review results without a licensed or trained professional to interpret the data

Tools Requiring Interpretive Assistance-tool in which results will have to be discussed with a person licensed or trained in this particular tool

WHAT IS A CAREER PLAN?

Process of establishing short or long-term career goals and objectives and defining specific steps to achieve them.

GOALS

Short-term (skill development)

Workshops Seminars Joining a professional

association Networking Working with a mentor or

coachwww.gottamentor.comLong-term College Degree Specialized Training Continuing Educationwww.specializedtraining.com

PERSONAL PLAN OF ACTION

Specific Concrete Time-Based

Use the PersonalAction Plan Handout

BE A “STAR”

Go beyond job description Plug into “guru” networks Organizational “savvy”

FIGLER’S MATRIX

Good Behaviors

Bad Results“Enhance”

“Star”Good behaviors

Good results

Bad ResultsBad Behaviors

“Bottom” 10%

Bad Behaviors

Good Results(Companies

tend to overlook if generating revenue)

Figler’s Matrix

CAREER DEVELOPMENT USING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Discovery

Dream

Design

Destiny

CYCLE OF SUCCESS

Career “Mindset”

Self-Assessme

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Career Plan

Personal plan of action

Be a “STAR”