This is a presentation by Oliver Olson - Country Manager, Romania at CEU Business School

2. CEU Business School, Romania www.ceubusiness.org

3. “It's never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Elliot “If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.” - A. Armstrong

4. EconoSofia 2010 I Need 3 volunteers! Your Name Your Facultate Your Field of Study

5. EconoSofia 2010 What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Who Do You Want To BeWhen You Grow Up? How Will You Know When You Get There?

6. EconoSofia 2010 It is YOUR responsibility to put yourself in the right place… companies used to take responsibility for this in return for your life long loyalty and as compensation for doing a job that was not fulfilling. Question: Would you hire this person? Why or Why not?

7. Home CV

8. Is This Your Plan? Work Childhood University Retirement Start Living Die

9. A Better Plan Work Play Childhood University Die Start Living

10. The Best Plan! There should be no Difference between WHO you are and WHAT you do! Childhood University Start Living Die

11. EconoSofia 2010 Define: Career Development Assess Where You Are Decide Where You Want To Be Make the Changes Necessary To Get There

12. EconoSofia 2010 First, Assess Where You Are

13. EconoSofia 2010 It does not matter how good you are if you are not in the right place!

14. EconoSofia 2010 Know Yourself: The Types of work you like to do The activities that give you the most satisfaction The environments in which you prefer to work The sorts of people you like to work with The abilities you possess that you’d like to develop

15. EconoSofia 2010 Ask 5 or 6 friends these questions: (I hope you have that many friends!) What four words best describe me? If your best friend asked you to tell her more about me, what would you say? What appears to motivate me? What would be the ideal job for me? What seems to make me most fulfilled and excited? What work should I stay away from, and why? What about myself do I have trouble seeing? What aspects of myself do I need to change to be more successful? What aspects of myself should I not change? Collect the responses and look for common themes.

16. EconoSofia 2010 Sources for Knowing Yourself: Colleagues Friends Family Yourself Imagine that you have just retired. Finish these two sentences: 1. I am most proud of ______________ 2. I wish I had done more of _________

17. EconoSofia 2010 “Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. More often, people know what they are not good at – and even then, more people are wrong than right.” – Peter Drucker

18. EconoSofia 2010 Second, Decide Where You Want To Be

20. A quick diversion Scalable vs. non-Scalable Pro’s & Con’s Winner Take All Distribution of $$$$ Careers fall into one of these two categories.

21. EconoSofia 2010 “Managing Oneself” by Peter Drucker Five key questions: What are my strengths? How do I work? What are my values? Where do I belong? What can I contribute? “Do not try to change yourself – you are unlikely to succeed. Work to improve the way you perform.” - Drucker

22. Interests vs. Values vs. Skills The next 3 slides will go into more detail (Sorry if it gets a little boring)

23. EconoSofia 2010 Your Core Business Interests (Warning: this is my most boring slide. Now would be a good time to check your text messages if you need to!) It has been shown that these core business interests change little, if at all, over time. (Whereas your work values and skills may shift over time.)

24. EconoSofia 2010 Work Values What motivates you? An environment of openness and friendliness? Access to experts in the industry? Good health and childcare benefits? Stock options and profit sharing Flex-time, telecommuting? Cash?

26. Skills can be altered

27. Everyone has weaknesses

28. Weigh the cost/benefit of developing a new skill Transferable vs. Non-Transferable Skills

29. EconoSofia 2010 Third, Make The Changes Necessary To Get There

30. EconoSofia 2010 You Need to Prepare for you career just like you would to master an instrument or to prepare for your final university exams. Make a plan:Example - For every hour you spend on the internet, spend 10 minutes on career planning. Keep track of the hours and once a week or once a month use the accumulated career planning time.

31. EconoSofia 2010 The “Breaking Through” exercise (hand-out) Seven self-assessments: Career Snapshot Competence Assessment Credibility Assessment Confidence Worksheet Relationship Assessment Relationship Worksheet Next Steps

32. EconoSofia 2010 What is the answer? Find development opportunities at your company: What career ladders are available to me right now? Am I in a position to take advantage of them? Have I identified and made some provisions for the skills and experiences I will need to climb to the next level? (Training) What can I do to get “unstuck” from a career plateau? Find a Mentor

33. Remember to start living! No Difference between WHO you are and WHAT you do! Childhood University Start Living Die

34. Recommended Readings “The Black Swan” - NassimTaleb “Fooled By Randomness” – NassimTaleb “Outliers: The Story of Success” – MalcomGladwell “The Tipping Point” – MalcomGladwell “Freakonomics” - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner “SuperFreakonomics” - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner “The 4-Hour Workweek” - Timothy Ferriss “When Genius Failed” - Roger Lowenstein

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