Taking Charge of Your Career

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Taking Charge of Your Career
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Introduction

• What do you want from this workshop?
• What is most difficult about career planning?
• What do you already know about process?

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Career Development

• Lifelong process involving
• choices, changes, challenges
• integrating
• internal self-knowledge
• And
• external opportunities

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• Career Planning is dynamic and interactive with
  the work environment.

Work Opportunities
YOU
Integrate through Decision Making Process
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Career Planning Model 3 Interactive Elements

• 1) Internal or Self-knowledge What do we
  need to know about ourselves?
• 2) External or Opportunity structure What
  do we need to know about work setting/opportunity
  structure?
• 3) Decision making process What works?

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Self Assessment

• Question to you
• To explore career options, what do you need to
  know about yourself?
• For today, well focus on interests and skills

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WORK ENVIRONMENTS (HOLLAND)
INVESTIGATIVE
ARTISTIC
REALISTIC
CONVENTIONAL
SOCIAL
ENTERPRISING
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Skills and Knowledge

• Skills Analysis as strategy for planning
• Personal skills recognition
• Identification of our most important skills (most
  motivating as well as those contributing to burn
  out)
• Identification of our most available skills
• Needs for further skill development (training
  opportunities, experiential learning, and/or
  academic coursework)
• Gaining the ability to articulate and market
  these skills to supervisors/employers.

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Skill Types

• Transferable (key as transition to new career
  pathways)
• Special Knowledge (acquired through academic
  coursework as well as experiential learning)
• Self-Management

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External Work Setting

• Question to you
• To explore career options, what do you need to
  know about the work setting?
• How do you evaluate a good job?

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External Work Setting

• What do we know about the changing workforce?
• What are some of the terms now in common usage?
  Transitioning, Global Economy, Restructuring,
  Reengineering, Contingency work, Outsourcing,
  Deskilling and Portable skills Obsolescence

UNCERTAINTY
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CHANGING LABOR MARKET
Old Model New Model
Goal setting as single linear decision Multiple goals/broader focus, ongoing decisions
Advancement meant vertical through career ladder Advancement variety of outcomes, lateral and growing in place
Organizational structure as context of opportunity Individual responsibility, collaborative w/worksite
Worker responds to change Worker anticipates change
Career Stages Linear model of career progression change seen as negative New applications of knowledge, new opp. dont look the same crossover common
Security through longevity Security through knowledge and skills niche areas
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Balancing Work/Family

• New models of family work arrangements dual
  career, sequential, or synchronous
• Family Friendly policies parental leave,
  flextime, demonstrated support of working
  parents, child care, job sharing

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3) Decision Making Process

• Varies by
• Level of anxiety
• Style
• Timing
• Role of significant others
• Work/family relationships

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Decision Making Style

• How do you make decisions?
• Rational
• Intuitive
• Dependent
• Are trade-offs with each style

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Best Prepared to Manage Career

• Conduct ongoing self-assessment and analysis of
  opportunities
• Able to problem solve, be creative
• Be self-directed
• Understand and apply technology
• Demonstrate communication, interpersonal and
  teamwork skills
• Learn effective risk taking
• Anticipate employers/customers needs
• Be self-marketing of professional abilities
• Recognize knowledge and skills and effectively
  present to employers
• Develop experience through variety of
  opportunities

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Next Steps for Strategic Planning

• Self-Assessment
• Prepare for areas of competence, not specific
  jobs or job titles
• Know your strengths but address areas of
  improvement
• What added value can you offer to benefit you
  and employer?
• Work Environment
• Analyze opportunities by task and by association
  with future goals
• Anticipate what is needed
• Career satisfaction doesnt always mean
  promotion/advancement
• Decision Making
• Review personal priorities
• Set short term goals connected to long term, but
  be flexible
• Research, network (informational interviewing)
• Consider multiple pathways
• Dont think Who would hire me? but Where
  would I want to be hired?

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• Thank you!!
• Wish you all many career successes