This session includes: • Reflecting on Yesterday by mapping your career to determine satisfaction level triggers, • Assessing Today by prioritizing your interests and evaluating your personal values; and • Planning for Tomorrow by building a career compass to guide future career decisions and prepare you for future career conversations with your manager, mentor or coach.

1. Navigating Your Career
Meg Janovetz
Talent Development

2. Effective Learning Strategies
How to get the most out of this session
Be Present
Focus on YOU
Minds are like parachutes…
Share your ideas and ask for feedback
You are not done today

3. Navigating Your Career - Objectives
 Reflect on Yesterday by recognizing what you have
learned already
 Assess Today by prioritizing your career interests,
evaluating personal values and understanding strengths
and development areas
 Plan for Tomorrow by building a Career Compass to
guide future career decisions, and planning your career
elevator speech

4. Career Compass
Your Career Compass

5. Why is Career Development is Important
What’s in it for you?
Career
Development
Alignment to
Future Goals
Productivity
and Efficiency
Expand
Opportunities
Improve
Personal as
well as job
satisfaction
Stay Current
and
Competitive

6. Are You Having an Accidental Career?

7. Workshop Agenda
Reflect on Yesterday
• Career Highs and Lows
Assess Today
• Evaluate Your Values
• Explore Your Interests
• Assess Your Competencies
Plan for Tomorrow
• Networking
• Career - Elevator Speech
Workshop Agenda

8. Workshop Agenda
Reflect on Yesterday
• Career Highs and Lows
Assess Today
• Evaluate Your Values
• Explore Your Interests
• Assess Your Competencies
Plan for Tomorrow
• Networking
• Career - Elevator Speech

9. Positive Experiences:
• What type of working environment/activities did you enjoy?
• What things were naturally good at?
• For what did you receive positive feedback from others?
Not-so-positive Experiences:
• What types of environments, activities did you NOT enjoy?
• When did you find yourself watching the clock?
• When did you say “never again”
Sample Notes (what I have learned about myself to date):
• I prefer working on a team, rather than spending time on my own
• I prefer working with numbers/measures rather than concepts or ideas
• I prefer a more formal/corporate environment rather than a more
casual/smaller org
• I don’t think I want to manage people
Reflect on Yesterday: Career Highs and Lows

10. Reflect on Yesterday: Career Compass

11. Workshop Agenda
Reflect on Yesterday
• Career Highs and Lows
Assess Today
• Evaluate Your Values
• Explore Your Interests
• Assess Your Competencies
Plan for Tomorrow
• Networking
• Career – Elevator Speech

12. Interests
Values
Competencies
Career Satisfaction
Assess Today: 3 Ingredients to

13. Assess Today: Your Values

14. 1. How difficult was it to select your $3000 value?
Why?
2. Are your choices different today than they would
have been five years ago?
3. How can you change any of your red or yellow
stickers to green stickers?
4. Are some of your top values missing from your
work or life today?
Assess Today: Your Values

15. Assess Today: Career Compass - Values

16. Interests
Values
Competencies
Career Satisfaction
Assess Today: 3 Ingredients to

17. Assess Today: What are my Interests?
Sample List:
• Coordinating information between people & organizations
• Assembling or building things with your hands
• Maintaining/Keeping accurate records
• Insuring regulations or standards are upheld
• Managing others
• Working with: Adults? Children? Plants, Animals?
• Working with Spreadsheets and formulas
• Measuring and Estimating
• Presenting Information, Selling, Training
• Mediating/Negotiating between differing interests
• Creating communication
• Working directly with Customers? Behind the scenes?
• Creating documents

18. People: Helping, Serving, Caring for, or Selling
Things: Working with Machines, Tools or Living Things
Data: Working with Facts, Records, Files or Numbers
Ideas: Creating Insights, Theories, or New Ways of Doing Things
Assess Today: How do I want to spend my time?

19. Career Compass
Assess Today: Career Compass - Interests

20. Assess Today:
Competencies - Strengths and Development Areas

21. Assess Today: Career Compass - Competencies

22. Reflect on Yesterday
• Career Highs and Lows
Assess Today
• Evaluate Your Values
• Explore Your Interests
• Assess Your Competencies
Plan for Tomorrow
• Networking
• Career - Elevator Speech

23. Plan for Tomorrow: Networking
Establishing and maintaining collaborative business relationships with people
within and outside your organization who are willing and able to provide
job-related information and expertise.
IT’S NOT ONLY WHAT YOU KNOW…
…IT’S ALSO WHO YOU KNOW

24. Know your
critical few and
cultivate
Build your
network before
you need it
Follow the
person, not
position
Pick people
different than you
Help
accomplish
THEIR agenda
Act of
generosity
creates a ripple
Plan for Tomorrow: Networking Tips

25. Picture Your Network
You
Work
Social
Friends/Family
Other
Community/School
IndustryPrevious
Work

26. Career Compass
Plan for tomorrow: Career Compass

28. Four Kinds Of People
People that watch things happen.
People that wonder what happened.
People that never knew anything happened.
People that make it happen.
Which one will you be?

29. Meg Janovetz
Talent Development
Boston Scientific
Meg.janovetz@bsci.com