Look Ahead & Look AroundLook Ahead & Look Around

Leveraging Past Leveraging Past

Experience & Positioning Experience & Positioning

for the Futurefor the Future

Changing Notions of Career

� Linear�

� to….�

� All terrain�

UWA Post Grad Career Terrains

Statistical Consultant – Aust Bureau of Statistics

Management Consultant – Accenture

Analyst – Dept of Defence

Policy Officer – Aust Vice Chancellors Committee

Patent Examiner – IP Australia

Plant Records Manager – Singapore Botanic Gardens

MSc Archaeology

PhD Engineering

PhD Zoology

PhD History

PhD Biochemistry

PhD Agriculture

Employability Skills

� The value of knowledge depends on capacity to use it:

� Personal attributes � non-skill based behaviours & attitudes

� Skills � the learned capacity of individuals

� Elements � facets of skills, the mix, priority and sophistication of which will vary from employer to employer

Top 10 Graduate Selection Criteria

SOURCE : Graduate Careers Australia 2006

Intelligent Career

� Organisational competencies

� Culture

� Know-how

� Networks

� Individual competencies

� Knowing why

� Knowing how

� Knowing whom

Personal Career Terrain

� Where have you been so far?

� valleys explored

� peaks scaled

� What are your current horizons?

� What ‘footprint’ do you want to leave?

Career Competencies

� Elements for managing life, learning & work

� Personal management

� Learning & work exploration

� Career building

Maintain a Portfolio

� Records and products of your learning, life and work

� Career and professional development overview

� Skills record

� Artefacts & examples

� Resume

� Official records

� Focused on your skills, experiences & accomplishments

Career Management

� Active engagement in work-related activities

� Enrichment

� Change

� Transition

� Progression

� Growth

� Balance

� Is a process, not an event!

Useful Career Resources

www.mindtools.com

www.seek.com.au

www.ciqonline.com.au

www.careers.uwa.edu.au

Become the director as well as actor in your own life / career drama

Accumulate relevant competencies and learn how to represent them on

stage