Career Planning

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Career Planning

• Presentation
• By
• A.V. Vedpuriswar

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Career Planning

• This presentation will help you in planning your
  career by
• Understanding where you are
• Deciding where you want to be
• Making the changes and adjustments necessary to
  get there

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Understanding Yourself

• What is the kind of work I like to do?
• What activities give me the most satisfaction?
• What is the environment in which I would like to
  work?
• What kind of people do I like to work with?
• What kind of abilities do I want to build on?

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How to Understand oneself?

• Reflect
• Talk to colleagues, friends and mentors
• Undergo formal assessments

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Key Questions

• What motivates you?
• What is your idea of an ideal job?
• What makes you excited?
• What kind of job would be most fulfilling?
• What kind of work should you stay away from?
• Where are you weak?
• Where should you change or improve?

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What are your deep interests?

• Hands Assembly, operation and repair of
  machines
• Words Reading, writing, speaking
• Senses Observation, inspection, diagnosis
• Analytical thinking Researching, analyzing,
  prioritizing
• Creativity Invention, design
• Artistic abilities Fashioning or shaping
  things, decoration
• Leadership Initiating new projects, organizing,
  direction, decision making

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The Art of Job Sculpting

• Job sculpting involves aligning career goals
  with deeply embedded life interests
• Timothy Butler and James Waldroop have identified
  the following embedded life interests
• - Application of technology
• - Quantitative Analysis
• - Theory development and conceptual thinking
• - Creative production
• - Counseling mentoring
• - Managing people relationships
• - Enterprise control
• - Influence through language ideas

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Skill Assessment

• Communication skills
• - Writing
• - Presentation
• - Negotiating
  
• - Conflict resolution
• - Giving receiving
• - feedback
• - Influencing
• - Editing

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Skill Assessment

• Technology Skills
• - Keyboard
• - Word process
• - Spread sheet
• - Presentation
• - Graphics

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Skill Assessment

• Financial Skills
• - Financial Analysis
• - Cost Accounting
• - Budgeting
• - Forecasting
  

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Other Skills

• Supervisory skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Self management skills
• Sales marketing skills
• Project management skills
• Physical manual dexterity skills

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Career Ladders

• Stages through which people move on to more
  challenging positions
• What career ladders are available?
• How can I take advantage of them?
• What skills experience are needed to climb up
  the next step?
• What kind of gaps exist?
• What training is needed to fill the gaps?

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Thank You