Martin Smith's slides from Lecture 2.

1. Martin Smith
UOW Careers Central
www.uow.edu.au/careers/

2.  “Careers are no longer like a Chinese
banquet, 14 courses brought to your
table… they’re more like a progressive
supper, bite sized portions eaten in
different places”

3.  “There’s no such thing as a career path
anymore…
its crazy paving and you lay it yourself”

4.  Globalisation and business competition
 Demographics
 Technology
 Politics
 Socio-Cultural trends
 Mass higher education

5.  The specialist
 The generalist
 Connected
 Self reliant

6.  Self aware, matching and decision
making, action planning,
 Networking, political
awareness, negotiation,
 Coping with uncertainty, development
focus
 Transfer skills, self confidence and self
promotion

7.  How to think
 How to relate
 How to use technology productively

8.  “The indipreneur…an
interdependent individual with an
entrepreneurial focus”
Dr Carolyn Corbin

9.  Critical thinking
 Problem solving
 Interpersonal understanding
 Written communication

10.  Communication
 Teamwork
 Problem solving
 Initiative and enterprise
 Planning and organising
 Self management
 Learning
 Technology

11.  The UOW Graduate Qualities
 Informed
 independent learners
 problem solvers
 effective communicators
 responsible
 www.uow.edu.au/about/teaching/qualities/index.html

12.  Informed  Communication
 independent learners  Teamwork
 problem solvers  Problem solving
 effective communicators  Initiative and enterprise
 responsible  Planning and organising
 Self aware  Self management
 networking,  Learning
 matching and decision  Technology
making  Action planning,
 Coping with uncertainty  political awareness
 self confidence and self  development focus
promotion  Transfer skills

13.  the starting point for all
effective job seeking…
 research

14.  Articulating what they want
- On paper
- Online
- On the phone
- In person

15. Audit of what
employers want and
what have you got –
GAP analysis
Reflect upon the Establish a
experiences using the Career Action Plan
CARL framework -
(Context, Action, Res timeframes, targets, c
ponse, Learning) ontacts, register of
activity
Implement the
action plan
- Creative job seeking
- work related
experiences (voluntary
work, CS programs)

16.  Maslow “it isn’t normal to know what we
want. It is a rare and difficult psychological
achievement.”
 Nietzsche “help us to become who we are”

17.  Trait and factor theories (Holland)
 Lifelong (Super)
 Systems theories (Patton and McMahon)
 Content and process.
 The content of career development learning
…. learning about self and learning about the
world of work.
 Process learning … the development of the
skills necessary to navigate a successful and
satisfying life/career

18.  Abilities, aptitudes,
competencies, skills
 Interests
 Personality
 Rewards - extrinsic and intrinsic
 Values, ethics, moral compass
 Passion and purpose

19.  Learning about self (know yourself)
 Learning about opportunities (know your
options)
 Decision Learning (make your choice)
 Transition Learning (make your move)

21. Audit of what
employers want and
what have you got –
GAP analysis
Reflect upon the Establish a
experiences using the Career Action Plan
CARL framework -
(Context, Action, Res timeframes, targets, c
ponse, Learning) ontacts, register of
activity
Implement the
action plan
- Creative job seeking
- work related
experiences (voluntary
work, CS programs)

22.  The whole uni experience
 Workplace learning activities
(UniVative, GQEST, Careers Central
Interns)
 ARTS301

24.  the starting point for all
effective job seeking…
 research