Top Ten Air Force Career Hints

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Top Ten Air Force Career Hints

• National CGOC Conference
• 18 May 2005Col William Rutley USAF Ret

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Hint 10

• For Your Career Area
• -- Layout possible paths to the jobs you
  want to hold. Include requirements, experience,
  and milestones.
• -- Be Flexible and have Alternatives
• -- Remember Needs of the Service
• -- Focus on positions/jobs, not rank
• -- Perform and let the rank come

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Hint 9

• Be very observant of your superiors as
  leadersthe good and the not so good!!
• This applies to leaders you can observe in other
  career areas, e.g. community, business, medical,
  education.

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Hint 8

• Keep a Personal Journal!!
• Review your journal frequently as new thoughts
  and ideas will emerge over time.

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Hint 7

• Read, Read, and then Read some more!!
• Key Newspapers, magazines, Biographies, History,
  Futurist, Business, and yes, Fiction!!
• Do Not just read to agree---read to learn and
  develop your own leadership voice.

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Hint 6

• Perform each position as if it is the last
  position you will ever hold.
• Done correctly this avoids the grass is greener
  issue and loss of focus.
• You still need to do career planning so do not
  carry this to an extreme!

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Hint 5

• SOS, ISS, and SSS Go, or at least do them via
  seminar!
• If you are picked to go take full advantage of
  the networking and learning opportunities.
• Volunteer to attend other services schools or
  joint service schools
• Look at DSMC and ICAF

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Hint 4

• Masters DegreeGet One!
• Not from a Diploma Mill
• PhD---depends. There are not very many slots for
  PhD.

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Hint 3

• If you get the chance to be an Executive
  Officer---do itonce!

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Hint 2

• No matter what the job is, or how small it is in
  scope---take the job if you are the one in charge!

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Hint 1

• Rutleys People to People Principles

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PEOPLE TO PEOPLEPRINCIPLES
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PEOPLE NEED TO BEHUMAN
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PEOPLE NEED TO BETREATED AS INDIVIDUALSWHO HAVE
VALUE
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PEOPLE WANT TO CARE AND TO BE CARED ABOUT
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PEOPLE NEED TO GROW ASINDIVIDUALS IN THEIR
OWNWAY AT THEIR OWN PACE
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PEOPLE WANT TO DO WELLAND TO SEE THEIR TEAM DO
WELL
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PEOPLE ARE ALL CAPABLE OFBEING PROFESSIONAL
THIS IS NOT RELATED TOEDUCATION, JOB, RACE,
SEX, OR AGE
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PEOPLE WANT HONESTY AND INTEGRITY IN THEIR LIVES
AND WORKPLACE
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PEOPLE WANT TO BEINVOLVED AS OWNERS OFTHE
ENTERPRISE AND TO BEPART OF GREAT WORK OFVALUE
TO SOCIETY
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Roosevelt Quote

• It is not the critic who counts not the man who
  points out how the strong man stumbles, or where
  the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
  the arena, whose face is marred by dust, sweat
  and blood who errs, and comes up short again and
  again because there is no effort without error
  and shortcoming but who knows the great
  enthusiasms, the great devotions and who at the
  worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
  greatly, so that his place shall never be with
  those old and timid souls who know neither
  victory or defeat.

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George Bernard Shaw Quote

• This is the true joy in life, the being used
  for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty
  one the being a force of nature, instead of a
  feverish selfish little clod of ailments and
  grievances complaining that the world will not
  devote itself to making you happy. I am of the
  opinion that my life belongs to the whole world
  community and as long as I live, it is my
  privilege, my privilege, to do for it whatever I
  can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
  for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice
  in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle
  to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which Ive
  got to hold up for the moment and I want to make
  it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
  on to future generations.

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Dead Poets Society Movie

• Life is like poetryto be lived with passion and
  love
• Each of us adds a verse during our lives
• What will be your verse?

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Quote from the Movie Gladiator

• WHAT WE DO IN LIFE ECHOS IN ETERNITY

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CONSIDER

• What Will Be Your Legacy?
• How Will You Be Remembered By History?

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THE CHOICE IS YOURS!
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THE BOTTOM LINE

• THE FOUNDATION FOR REAL AND LASTING SUCCESS IN
  ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE IS A TRUE AND DEMONSTRATED
  LOVE AND RESPECT FOR PEOPLE