Managing One's Career Through A Time Of Recession

Managing One’s Career Through a Time of Recession

CIMA Meeting: Alexander Hotel, June 9, 2009

Tom O’Connor, Torc Consulting Group

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Things To Talk About

Career Management

Strategic Framework

Self Awareness

Personal Traits

Useful Tools

Issues With Career & Job Change

Discomfort & Uncertainty

Practical Tools That Can Help

To Explore & Project Manage

Impact of Recession


“If we are to be successful in life, we must learn how to manage ourselves: how to develop ourselves, where to place ourselves to make the biggest contribution and how and when to change

the work we do. To manage ourselves we must ask some probing questions about ourselves:

• What are my strengths?• What are my values?• Where do I belong?• What should I contribute?• How do I perform?• How do I manage relationships?• What about the 2nd half of my life

Peter F. Drucker, “Managing Oneself” (HBR, Mar-Apr 1999:65-74)


The 16 Personality Types

Harmoniser

Planner

Designer

Promoter Motivator

Analyser

Developer

Performer

Advocate Explorer

Implementor Caretaker Mentor Strategist

Protector Conceptualiser


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HOLISTICINTUITIVEINTEGRATINGSYNTHESIZING

INTERPERSONALFEELING-BASEDKINESTHETICEMOTIONAL

WHOLE BRAIN MODEL


Likeability

• Body language (Visual)– Contributes 55%

• Tone of voice (Vocal)– Contributes 38%

• Actual words (Verbal)– Contributes 7%

Albert Mehrabian, specifies that Total Likeability can be divided into 3 factors:


Whom Would You Hire?

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Prospect Theory

Daniel KahnemanPrinceton UniversityBorn: 1934

2002 Nobel Prize-winner in Economics


JibberJobber is…

JibberJobber is a career management tool that helps you track and nurture relationships. It is a personal relationship manager that helps you manage a job search and optimize your network relationships - for the rest of your career!


Job-Search Management Tool


Joel Barker 1950-

The ‘Paradigm Man’


Job-Search – Key Components

• CV Preparation & Market Analysis

• Career Planning – incl. Reinvention, Freelancing & Sector-Change

• Self-Awareness (Thinking & Behavioural) & Interview Skills

• Structured Job-Search – incl., Networking, Social Media & Project Management


GNP per capita

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2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Source: ESRI - Bergin, Conefrey, FitzGerald and Kearney, 2009


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May 14, 2009

We leave last word to O'Leary of Ryanair. Michael …. is ebullient about his low-cost carrier's prospects … & a huge fan of Irish ingenuity:

"We'll mop the floor with every airline in Europe! Maybe, we drink too much, but the

Irish are brilliant people"


Tom O’Connor

Torc Consulting Group

4 Lower Pembroke St.

Dublin 2

Ph: +353-1-6623020

[email protected]

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