Career Opportunities & Management

Career - Todays Session

What is Career Management? Where to Start Decision Making Getting What You Want

I Just Concentrated On My Degree

Definitely Need to Do More

May Need to Do Something Specific

What is career??
Job vs. Career
Job What can I do now to make money? Career Chosen Profession for your life. Requires a willingness to get the training needed to build your skills for the future.

A career is the work a person does. It is the sequence of jobs that an individual has held throughout his or her working life E.g. occupation of teaching.

Career planning whats that??

Career planning consists of activities and actions that you take to achieve your individual career goals

Where Do I Start?

Burning Ambitions - How Desire is Not Enough Jane Ratchford & Professor Cary Cooper Career Guidance Today Vol9 No3 May/June 2001

Intuition, instinct, passion and, Ive always wanted to be Will not be enough to convince 21st century recruiters.

Where Do I Start?
Where are you on the scale (1 10)??? No idea at all I think I want to work with people Im interested in accountancy, business I know I want to...

Career Planning is NOT

Leaving the decision to chance Getting information and never deciding Going along with someone elses plans

Its OUR future. WE need to make our career decision!!

Paradigm Shift
OLD: Choose a DESTINATION What will you be when ... NEW: Follow your HEART Who are you now? What are your special assets? Who needs what you like to do? What work arrangements make sense? What skills do you need to manage your career?

The High Five

1. Career Management Principles
Know yourself, believe in yourself and follow your heart. Focus on the journey, not the destination. Become a good traveler. Youre not alone. Access your allies, and be a good ally. Change is constant, and brings with it new opportunities. Learning is lifelong, and its good. We are most alive when we are learning.

Six Easy Words To Help You Navigate For Career Success

The knowledge to manage your career comes from you (why, who, how) and from an understanding of the career you wish to enter (what, where, when):

Why? identify your goals Who? network with people How? learn the skills necessary What? understand requirements

Where? find out points of entry When? know when to start looking

Deeper insight
It is the life- long process a person goes through to learn about self such as
purpose, personality interests skills talents

Develop a self- concept, learn about careers, and work situations Make a career choice, while developing and coping social skills

Career planning : An ongoing process

Here You Explore your interests and abilities Strategically plan your career goals Create your future work success by designing learning and action plans to help you achieve your goals.

Career Management Skills

Opportunity Awareness Self Awareness Self Promotion Decision Making Action Planning

Career - Opportunities
Career Streams
Finance Human Resources Journalism Legal Insurance Hospitality Fashion Designing Administration Marketing

Career - Finance
Professional courses
CA (Chartered Accountant) ICWA (Cost Accountant) ACS (Company Secretary) MBA M.Com

Job oriented careers

Finance & Administration Audits Taxation

Career Human Resources

Professional Courses
MBA MSW Diploma

Job oriented careers

General Administration Training & Development Compensation & Benefits Consulting

Career Journalism
Professional Courses
Degree Diploma

Job oriented career

Reporters Writer Cartoonist

Career Legal
Professional Courses
Areas of specialization
Civil Criminal Taxation Insurance Corporate Law
LLB

Career Insurance
Job oriented careers
Life insurance Health insurance Vehicle insurance Corporate insurance Property insurance

Career Hospitality
Professional Courses
Diploma

Hotel Management Travel & Tourism

Career Fashion Designing

Professional Courses
Diploma

Merchandising Designer

Career Administration
Professional Courses Job oriented careers

MBA Diploma

General Administration Planning Operations Logistics Procurement MIS

Career Marketing
Professional Courses Job oriented careers
MBA Diploma

Market Research Marketing Promotion & Advertisement Sales

Career Corporate Sectors

Banking Industries (Manufacturing / IT / Services) Insurance Education Hotels Hospitals Travel & Tourism

Career Civil Services

Professional Courses
Central UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) State KAS (Karnataka Administrative Service)

Areas of Specialization
IAS IPS IFS IRS

Career Armed Services

Army Navy Air force
Long Service Commission Short Service Commission

Career Others
BPOs Retailing Franchisee Contract Commission Agents

Career Select Institutes

Identify the right institutes
Reputation Facilities Faculty Industry Collaboration

Career Entry Into Institutes

Understanding the requirement
Selection process Competitive examinations

Self preparation
Quantitative Qualitative

With the stakes so high it is essential for individuals to seek out and exploit good quality information, advice and guidance.
Burning Ambitions - How Desire is Not Enough Jane Ratchford & Professor Cary Cooper Career Guidance Today Vol9 No3 May/June 2001

What Next?
Action Plan Basic information / personal research? Specific research?

Opportunities Research
Need opportunity information Information Room Internet Newspapers / Job Fairs Talks Program - NOW!!!! Creative research KNOWING THE MARKET

Meta-competencies
While technical and job-specific skills have sufficed in the past, it is increasingly being accepted that the worker of the future will need a more comprehensive set of metacompetencies that are not occupation-specific and are transferable across all facets of life and work. The economic value, to the individual and the nation as a whole, of a workforce equipped with these meta-competencies cannot be underestimated and their development cannot be left to chance.
Source: Managing Life, Learning and Work in the 21st Century. (2003) Miles Morgan Australia for the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training

the list of candidate essentials must be an in-depth understanding of self, including personal philosophies, drivers,competences, attributes, interests and abilities - and how these mesh with the demands both of the post on offer and the employer and industry. Burning Ambitions - How Desire is Not Enough Jane Ratchford &
Professor Cary Cooper Career Guidance Today Vol 9 No 3 May/June 2001

On

Career Management Competencies

A 1 2 3 B 4 5 6 C 7 8 9 10 11 PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Build and maintain a positive self-concept Interact effectively with others Change and grow throughout life LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION Engage in lifelong learning Locate and effectively use information Understand work/society/economy relationship LIFE/WORK BUILDING Secure or create and maintain work Make life and work decisions Maintain balanced life and work roles Understand changing nature of life/work roles Manage ones career building process

Personal Research
Know Yourself Review and analyze Part-time work, leisure, travel etc Skills Update - practical CV Update

Decision Making
Review what you know Realistic / Unrealistic Values Constraints

Getting What You Want

Confidence to Convince Need Evidence and Knowledge Good CV Application Form / Interview Questions

Answer This
Describe an occasion when you came up with a new idea or a better way of doing something How did it happen How did you overcome difficulties What was the outcome

Thank you