Live Your Professional Career

Live Your
Professional Career

Eric TS Pan

Meridian Deployment Corporation
www.mdc-learning.com

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Outline
A Whole Person
The American Dream
Definitions
New Career Reality
Live Your Professional Career
Career Planning Cycle
Tech Career Framework
Present Economic Crisis
Competency-based Skills, Values, and Motives
Engineering Career Path
Market Life Cycle
Regional Advantage
Personal Action Framework
Recruiting Process
Pre-hire Assessment
Exploring Other Occupation/Career Options

In memory of Brian Pugh of SiPort
(1961 – 2008)


Tragedy creates a cause-and-effect chain that clearly
reveals what may happen at any time or place because
that is the way the world operates. Aristotle

The anxiety of the age and the deceitfulness of riches…
Matt. 13:22

Far too short, but far from empty, Brian lived life to the
fullest. The stories, music and memories that were
shared captured for so many the essence of who he was
and will always be for all of us. Bruce Reyes-Chow


A Whole Person
[A person whose behaviors, perceptions, attitudes, striving, and
beliefs are greater than a sum of their parts]

environment
body
soul
spirit
People Flesh
Event Will Mind
Conscience
Act
Process
Think
Choose Intuition
Property
Belief

Emotion
Feel

The American Dream

“… the right of men to pursue their happiness, by which
is meant the right to pursue any lawful business or
vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal
rights of others, which may increase their prosperity
or develop their faculties, so as to give to them their
highest enjoyment.quot;

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field


Definitions
A job is a work role with a specific organization
An occupation is a wide category of jobs with similar
characteristics
A career is a lifetime journey of building and making
good use of your skills, knowledge and experiences. It is
the total of all events and relationships in our lives:
family, friends, education, work, and leisure activities.

What constitutes a rewarding career?

Do you take charge of your own career?

Source: California Career Planning Guide

New Career Reality
1. Globalization creates sudden imbalances between human
capital supply and demand, function by function, industry
by industry, and region by region
2. Careers are borderless, businesses pay for knowledge
wherever it is available
3. Downsizing, outsourcing, offshoring, restructuring and
delayering make it harder to obtain promotion
4. Individuals required to take ownership of their careers
5. Employers conducts more selective candidate processing,
drawing from a larger pool of talent for the best ‘fit’ (not
best ‘qualified’); ‘fit’ is important both ways
6. Looking at a management team with proven track records
7. Looking at an individual as a whole person


Developing your career path is a continuous process of
refining, transforming, and balancing.

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've
worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career
were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the
map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values,
strengths, and weaknesses. Peter Drucker

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and
the individuals who choose to compete in those
markets must change. An Wang


Be observant, keep an open mind, learn, adapt, take
action, and choose the future.

When you focus on excellence, you will see successful
completion of projects. You will make the right decisions.
You will be persistent to improve your communication in
a precise and concise way in other’s context so that
others would understand your message. You will win
over them.
Milton Chang


Career Planning Cycle
5. Work 4. Action

Networking &
Offers & Success at Initiatives
Work Search
Acceptance Work
Continuous Learning Exploring
Interview
& Improvement Opportunity

3. Decision
6. Life & Career planning is a process of
identifying what you’re good at;
Making
Career how your skills, talents, and
interests translate into work; and
Change & how to find that work that best Learning
Re-evaluation Objectives
Balance Plan
meet your needs on your schedule.
Goal
Setting

1. Self- 2. Research &
Assessment Analysis
Technical & Learning Exploring &
Intelligence SWOT Gap Analysis
Transferable Skills Pattern Shadowing
Values & Interests & Market & Information Work
Whole Person
Motivators Personality Labor Changes Search Characteristics

Tech Career Framework
Competency

Advantage
Competitiveness

Economics
Size & Scope Market Life Cycle
& Value Chain

Present Economic Crisis
(2007-2009?)
Major financial crisis
investment banks, insurance firms and mortgage banks
consequent to the subprime mortgage crisis
Unemployment
construction, real estate, financial services, transportation,
and auto sector
Debt
credit and mortgage defaults, foreclosure, bankruptcy
Crisis is moving upwards in the value chain and
consumer
restaurants, lodging, travel, insurances
technology sector
Government
fiscal crisis, bailout, stimulus


Discussion
How does the present economic crisis impact your
Industry
Business
Occupation
Job
Neighborhood
Family and Friends
Finances
Time
How long could you survive without a job?
How will you go about weighing your career options?


Competitiveness
Competencies

Advantage
Competitiveness

Economics
& Value Chain

Competencies

[Behavioral repertoires and knowledge instrumental in
the delivery of desired career-related results and
outcomes]
Assessable & trainable


Competency-based
Skills, Values, Motives
People Operational Emotional
Intellectual
Business generation Initiative &
Interpersonal Vision & Strategy
Bottom-line focus Responsibility
Coaching&development Organizational
Execution Steadiness
Influence awareness Systematic approach Self development
Networking Analysis & Judgement Project management
Effective Professional expertise
communication Innovation
Constructive teamwork

Environment
Objectives Relationships
Structuring
Professional challenge Harmony
Rate of change
Recognition of performance Honesty
Absence of stress
Financial reward Cooperation
Influencing techniques
Security Integrity
Working environment
Fun while working Fairness
Development opportunities
Identification Hierarchy
Building


Engineering Career Path

People GM/Exec,
Advisor
Competency

Industry,
BD Mgt
Mkg &
National,
Sales
Global
Entrepreneur
Business
Op Mgt leaders
Op
Consultant,
Inventor,
Specialist
Prod Dev, Technologist
Technical R&D

Entry Senior Principal Lead

Scope of Work

Advantage
Competency

Advantage
Competitiveness

Economics
& Value Chain

Market Life Cycle

Market Opportunities
Activities

Enterprise 1 Product C Life Cycle

Product B Life Cycle
Product A Life Cycle
(New-to-the-world)
Start-up
Product Pipeline
R&D
Business Life Cycle

Time

Regional Advantage
Example of the Silicon Valley
Competitive Capabilities Challenged Capabilities
Entrepreneurship/New Manufacturing
business creation Back-office operations
Research and advanced Product and process
technologies enhancement
Cross-disciplinary
research
New product
concept/New business
model
Market development
Global integrated
management

Source: A.T. Kearney analysis

Bright Spots in
Regional Job Market
Example in the Silicon Valley
Demand remains strong for cutting-edge engineers
Emerging clean-tech sector keeps ramping up on
venture capital investments — a record $1 billion
nationwide in the third quarter
Venture funding remains strong in the life science sector
Opportunity for companies that can deliver cost savings


Questions to Consider
What factors are important to you?
Why are they important to you?
Which can you influence?
Where is the opportunity?
What are you good at?
What are your choices or options?
How can you gain better assessment?
What do you do when opportunity knocks?
Who can help you?
When must you make a decision?


Your Value Proposition

Advantage
Competitiveness

Economics
Your Resources Your Time
& Focus

Your value proposition
Adopt a habit of constant learning with sequential
specialization across multiple functions, disciplines, and
cultures
Be the best, become an industry insider that demonstrate a
sound grasp of technology and business fundamentals
Focus on excellence to satisfy customer and societal needs
Articulate your message of value-creation that is within
your capability
Hold the right attitude to work with objectivity, humility,
respect, and giving
Be selective and build a successful track record in what you
do


Your resources and focus
Have good relationship skills, valuable networks, and
hidden resources to support your endeavors
Realize and understand true teamwork, diversity, and
empowerment
Develop a maturity in life to withstand adversities and to
deal with uncertainties and changes
Have a backup plan


Your time
Manage your time wisely
Scouting
Trends of industry and economy
Market forces (a targeted market)
Regional capabilities
Maneuver
Quantify time, finance, and key constraints
Identify and prioritize key motivator
Analyze strengths and weaknesses
Take inventory of transferable skills
Mobilize resources
Take calculated risks and set objectives
Rapid Tempo
Identify opportunities, focus, make decisions, and
implement plans quickly or make things happen
Achieve a balance between work and life, and renew
oneself to press on

Recruiting Process
5. Pre-hire
4. Interview
Assessment
Leadership/mgt Decision-making Technical Skills Transferable Skills
simulations Assessment
In-depth
Personality Structured Committee Hearings /
Interview
Assessment Interview Assessment

6. Hiring
3. Screen
7. Onboarding
Decision
Description /
Scorecard Resume Screen Qualification
Feedback

References
Job Applications

Testing

1. Requisition Questionnaire
2. Sourcing

Competency Model Skill Gaps Job Description Talent Pool Advertisement Referral
Business
Job Fair Headhunter Online Posting
Criteria
Description
Copyright © 2008 by Eric Passive Candidate
TS Pan.
Internal Posting
Outsource Agency
All rights reserved. Research

Pre-hire Assessment
Interviews alone are a poor selector of talent
25% accurate in fitting a candidate with a position, boss, team,
and company culture
Interviews provide only a view of “role style,” an individual’s
behavior when he or she is conscious on the impact
Pre-hire assessments pinpoints the candidate on the job in
“operating style” much more often, not conscious of the impact
being made

A poor hire is extremely costly
Depending upon the position, a poor hire can cost a few hundred
thousand in direct costs
Indirect costs may run hundreds of thousands to millions more
depending upon the strategic decisions poorly made and poorly
executed

More companies are using pre-hire assessments for
senior level positions

Advice for Candidate
Be honest about your abilities, assessment can pick up
faking and produce faking scores
It is all about ‘FIT’ on both sides. Good fit means a
successful position for candidate and employer
Make sure to ‘interview’ the company as well
Ask for feedback

For more information on pre-hire assessment
Contact:
Harly Neumann, Ph.D.
hneumann@stanfordalumni.org
925-899-0701


Exploring Other
Occupational/Career Options
Education
Entrepreneur
Finance/Insurance/Investment
Franchise
Import/Export
Independent Professional
Health Care
Law Enforcement and Legal
Nonprofit
Small Business
?


Career Planning Toolkit for Technical Professionals

books.google.com
ISBN 0975448005

Contact

Eric Pan

eric_pan@meridiandeployment.com
Meridian Deployment Corporation
www.mdc-learning.com


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