This seminar will provide you with a framework to “Develop your Personal Career Strategy”. It is designed to provide you with a methodology of how to identify your “career passion” and the route to achieve that role. At the end of the seminar, you will leave with an action plan. Topics covered include: • The components of developing a personal career strategy • How to identify your career passion • How to develop yourself further • Tips on finding a new role • Developing an action plan on the next steps, you need to take to further your career This presentation was used at HR Summit and Expo 2013 www.hrsummitexpo.com

1. Anne Tice

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Not happy
Doing what my parents expected
Staying safe
Haphazard career steps
Invisibility
Feeling stuck

3. Self-assessment
Values
Interests
Traits
Strengths
Development
Organization
assessment
Promote your
brand…
Work culture
Define your
brand
Role alignment
Tools & Tactics
•Marketing
•Network
•CV
•Social Media
People
assessment
“Window
shopping”
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4. Strengths
Values
Passions

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Plot your career highs and lows
Look for patterns of meaning, pleasure and strengths

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The life story technique
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Strength finder
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360 feedback

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Money
Creativity
Family
Status
Achievement
Integrity
Learning
Nature
Environment
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Progress
Service
Excellence
Recognition
Security
Risk
Challenge
Entrepreneurship
Sociability
Autonomy

8. R for “Realistic”
C for “Conventional”
People who
have athletic or
mechanical ability,
prefer to work with
objects, machines,
tools, plants, or animals,
or to be outdoors.
People who like to work
with data, have clerical
or numerical ability,
carrying things out in details,
or following through on
others’ instructions.
E for “Enterprising”
People who like to work
with people - influencing,
persuading, performing,
or leading or managing
for organizational goals
or for economic gain.
Observers, analyzers,
evaluators, problem
solvers.
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for “Investigative”
Innovative unstructured
situations using their
imagination
or creativity.
People who like
to inform, enlighten,
help, train, develop,
or cure, or are
skilled with words.
A for
“Artistic”
S for “Social”

9. S Skill/ Low Interest
High Strengths/ Low
T
Passion
R
E
Swimming
Downsizing
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Low Passion/ Low
H
S
Strengths
Accountant
PASSIONS
Talent Management
High Passion/High
Strengths
Learning and Development
Talent Management
Organization Development
Business Psychologist
High Passion/Low
Strengths
Artist

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Right place/ culture fit?
Find a “Sponsor”
Mentor
Ask for feedback
Move roles, region
Start a small business
Volunteer
Projects

11. BEING FOUND IN TODAY’S
JOB MARKET
WHERE’S WALDO?

12. “All of us need to understand the
importance of branding. We are CEOs of
our own companies: Me Inc. To be in
business today, our most important job is
to be head marketer for the brand called
You.” - Tom Peters in Fast Company

13. Know your market
www.indeed.ae
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Use “bridge” people
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Hidden job market
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Think long term…

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Use photos
Be searchable, repeat key words
Spellcheck/ friend check
Check for errors
Change the “nameplate”
Be consistent with the CV and brand

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What is stopping you… tactics won’t work if mental
barriers stop you from action
I can’t do this because…
My wife, my parents,
my money, I don’t have a degree,
I am shy, racial bias, I am male, I am female,
I am too young, I don’t have the experience…
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16. 1) Lack of ethics and values
2) Arrogance
3) Inability to adapt to change
4) Poor interpersonal skills
5) Failure to delegate
6) Lack of composure
7) Political mismanagement

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What are your next steps?
Find out more about yourself, the organization you aspire to,
your gaps, or how to get there? Brand?
I want to change from… to…
When will you review your plan?
Who will support you?
What are your barriers?
How will you overcome them?

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If you really want to go from “good” to “great”
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Develop a full career analysis and strategy
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Step back - reflect
Remember - it is possible!