WIT Career Management

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WIT Career Management
How to get that job 8th August Managing it all
25th August Whats out there 8th
Sept Professional Networking 29th Sept Coaching
Introduction 19th October
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Common career fallacies
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Components of effective career choices

• To explore the fit between
• What you can do
• The present/future needs of the company
• What you want
• What the company will do for you

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Life goals

• Assume that you have just been given 10,000,000
  tax-free. List seven things that you would do or
  buy in the next six months, excluding
  investments.
• Imagine that you have been told that you have six
  months to live. List seven things that you would
  do in the next six months
• What do you want to be remembered for? (think of
  this as an obituary)

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Top 5 Life goals exercise

• Excitement
• Learn to speak
• Fine living (food, theatre, concerts)
• Security (decreased risks)
• Recognition from others (status, rewards)
• A weekend in the country/beach
• Serve the community
• Money/wealth
• Be an expert at ..
• Read more widely in area(s) of
• Leadership of a significant organisation
• Cooking .
• To write ..
• Freedom to do my own thing
• Novelty and change
• Balance career and private (family) life
• Promote ethical values
• Live in a . Culture
• Master

• Assist others to .
• Adventure
• Spiritual growth
• Security (decreased risks)
• A bigger/better/more comfortable home
• To travel to
• A general managerial role
• A technical role
• A staff position
• Many close friends/relationships
• Recognition from your profession
• Peak physical fitness
• Longer/more frequent vacations
• Learn to .
• Fame
• Environmental contribution
• Spend time in ..
• Intimate relationship with spouse/children
• Plenty of leisure time

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Career anchor

• The one thing that a career option must have in
  order for you to find that option satisfying

• Technical/Functional Competence (TF)
• General Managerial competence (GM)
• Autonomy/Independence (AU)
• Security/Stability (SE)
• Entrepreneurial Creativity (EC)
• Service/Dedication to a Cause (SV)
• Pure Challenge (PC)
• Lifestyle (LS)

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Career Values

• What you think is most important and worthwhile

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Motivated Skills

• Specific activities that you enjoy undertaking

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Career planning

• Create career goal
• Specific, measurable, relevant, time-bound,
  personal, handwritten, compatible, justified
• Create career action plan
• Development objectives
• Identify career constraints
• Identify constrictive responses/interpretations

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Development Objectives

• Develop
• Industry knowledge
• Organisational knowledge
• Technical knowledge/skills
• Interpersonal attributes/skills
• Cultural or language skills
• Presentation skills
• Personal contacts/networks
• Industry experience
• Organisational experience

• Actions
• Seek advice from
• Researchon the Internet
• Do a summer job at.
• Obtain feedback from.
• Subscribe to.
• Join a club or professional association
• Attend workshops or seminars for..
• Read..
• Network to..
• Obtain work experience at.
• Contract/consult in the area of.
• Visit.
• Test my assumptions by.
• Take a short course in
• Ask for help from..
• Volunteer to.
• Make an appointment with.

• Monitor
• Write all activities in your diary
• Reality test your plan
• Post your plan up where you work/study
• Share it with your partner/close friend
• Be excited by your plan
• Revise your plan fortnightly/monthly
• Celebrate being focussed
• Have someone periodically ask you how you are
  doing
• Reward yourself for having completed all your
  tasks
• Reflect on what your plan will help you achieve
• Balance it with your other life responsibilities

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Identify career constraints

• Being afraid to take risks
• Being disorganised/poor at time management
• Being dissatisfied with anything other than a
  perfect job
• Career planning does not make sense when things
  are changing so fast
• Changes in what I want from my career
• Choosing between exciting career options
• Coping with envy from others
• Disapproval of others who are important to me
• Down shifting job level
• Expressing my career goals
• Fear of doing psychological tests
• Fear of failure of proposed job
• Fear of interviews
• Fear of success/low self-esteem
• Feeling as though I am begging for a job
• Feeling discouraged
• Financial commitments
• Networking effectively

• Frustration with a disrupted career plan
• Having to compromise my career values
• Having to relocate
• Having to travel
• Having unrealistic expectations
• I just want a job
• Im too young/old for this nonsense
• Lacking confidence in myself
• Lacking motivation
• Lacking skill(s) for career objective
• Love vs money conflicts
• Managing conflict and office politics
• Marketing myself
• My age
• My education/qualificatins
• My gender
• My intercultural competence
• My language skills
• My residency status

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Career Decision Making

• Begin process well before a decision needs to be
  made
• Devote adequate quality time to the process
• Try to eliminate time wastage through
• Unnecessary worry
• Asking others what you should do
• Making excuses
• Being blasé about prospects

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Career Decision Making

• Establish the nature of the problem to be solved
• Rather than trying to find a job, seek to secure
  the right series or jobs to build a satisfying
  career
• Work out what you really want
• Understanding allows us to make wise career
  choices

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Career Decision Making

• Avoid making decision based purely on expenses
  that you have already incurred

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Go forth!
Well of course you dont.. If you only want to
have a mediocre career Zig Ziglar