A Few Words about Career Management

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A Few Words about Career Management
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Why Career Assessment?

• Find careers where youll be happy and successful
• Avoid those where you wont
• Find the right organizational culture
• Make sure you succeed

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Why CareerLeader?

• Designed for MBAs, MBA careers
• Proven cross-culturally valid
• Validated on a sample of 100,000-plus MBAs and
  business professionals from 84 countries
• Used by 220 MBA programs and corporations
  worldwide

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Select Users

• MBA ProgramsU.S.
• Harvard University NYUStern
• Stanford University U.C. BerkeleyHaas
• CornellJohnson Carnegie-Mellon
  UniversityTepper
• MITSloan University of Chicago
• DukeFuqua NorthwesternKellogg
• DartmouthTuck UCLAAnderson
• Columbia University University of
  PennsylvaniaWharton
• EmoryGoizueta University of TexasMcCombs
• Yale University University of MichiganRoss

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Select Users

• MBA ProgramsInternational
• INSEAD London Business School
• HEC (Paris) Erasmus
• HEC (Montreal) University of Oxford
• Instituto de Empresa University of Western
  Ontario
• ESADE York University
• Queens University University of Cambridge
• IMD Indian School of Business (Hyderabad)
• Melbourne University Rand Afrikaans
  (Johannesberg)
• Tsinghua (Beijing) Universidad Austral (Buenos
  Aires)

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Select Users

• Corporate
• VISA International America Online
• Becton Dickinson Novartis
• Bain and Co. Boston Consulting Group
• Knebel Watters Lee Hecht Harrison
• Marico India NEC Mitsubishi Electronics
• Bridgestar Booz Allen Hamilton
• Hypertherm The St. Paul Companies

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What CareerLeader Does

• Assesses your interests, abilities, and
  motivators (one hourgive your first answer)
• Matches your complete profile with algorithms
  for
• 30 different careers
• 4 important elements of organizational culture

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Career Matches

• Accounting
• Advertising account management
• Commercial banking
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance in a corporate setting
• Financial planning/brokerage
• General management
• Human resources management
• Information systems management
• Institutional securities sales

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Career Matches

• Investment banking
• Investment management
• Management consulting
• Managers in science/engineering
• Marketing management
• New product development
• Non-profit management
• Private equity investing
• Production and operations management
• Public relations/communications

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Career Matches

• Real estate development
• Real estate finance
• Research and development management
• Retail management
• Sales and sales management
• Securities trading
• Strategic planning/business development
• Supply chain management
• Training/organizational development
• Venture capital

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Your Professional Report
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Your Professional Report

• Your best career matches
• Elements of organizational culture that will be
  important for you
• Your potential career derailers
• Your test results

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Online Resources

• Information about each career measured, and why
  you came up (or didnt) as a high match
• Informative sketches of a variety of industries
• Tips on assessing an organizations culture
• Other aspects of culture to consider
• Tips on how to have great interviews
• Advice about how to strengthen your weaknesses
• Information about common career Achilles heels
• A way to compare your interests with those of
  successful people in a variety of careers
• Advice about how to choose an industry