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How to Design & Engineer Your Career . By Glenn Lim Oct. 2013 . How do you define a Successful Career? What are the basic ingredients to be successful? Do you have a career plan in mind? How do you devise a career plan?. John Sculley III
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How to Design & Engineer Your Career By Glenn Lim Oct. 2013
How do you define a Successful Career? • What are the basic ingredients to be successful? • Do you have a career plan in mind? • How do you devise a career plan?
John Sculley III • VP (1970–1977) & President of Pepsico (1977–1983) • CEO of Apple (1983 – 1993) • May 1987, named Silicon Valley’ s top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$2.2M
Know Yourself • Your Values • What are values? Values are what you really care about, not only in your personal life, but also in a work situation. Values include religious beliefs as well as patriotism and other strong loyalties. • Why should I consider? • We all have different values, needs and motivations. • For many of us, our families demand our greatest loyalty and the biggest conflict in our lives is between career, which is often a source of self-fulfillment, and family which may require more time or attention than we want to give it. • Our work takes up a significant part of our day - usually a third or more - and has a significant impact on other aspects of our life, including our sense of self-worth and wellbeing. It is very important to carefully consider your values and needs when planning your career direction and developing your career strategy.
Know Yourself • Your Interests & Passion • What do you like to do? Think about experiences you have enjoyed - school, social, religious, sports, hobbies and work activities. • Interests, your likes, and dislikes, are an important part of career choice, and are related to values and often to skills and abilities. • Most people who enjoy their work have some personal interest in what they are doing. • Ways to Sort Through Your Interests • Identify and write down on paper all the activities that you currently like to do as well as what new activities you would like to do in the future. • Keep in mind here that this does not mean that you have to be skilled at these activities, although you might be. A good job target is a work direction that combines your personal interests with your skills.
Know Yourself • Your Skills & Abilities • Job-Related Skills (Hard Skills/ Functional Competency) • Personal Qualities & Personal Management Skills (Soft Skills) • Transferable Skills (Core Competency) Personal qualities are as important as learned skills in making your way in the work world.
Know Yourself • Assistance Tool • 360 feedback checking • SWOT Analysis Self-assessment helps you understand your personal and career goals, your interests, preferences, strengths and weaknesses • DISC
Design Your Career • Consider the Options • Consider your career options and identify which available roles fit your interests and abilities. • Understand the requirement and job scope by visiting job searching websites (JobsDB, Monster, Linkedin, company websites, etc), reading related magazines & articles, finding your mentors, etc.
Design Your Career • Set & Decide Your Goals Using SMARTER system for planning your career goals • Specific:be as clear as you can and avoid ambiguous statements. • Measurable: so you can see what you have achieved. • Achievable: provides motivation, but also keep your goals reachable. • Realistic: be reasonable and avoid the realms of fantasy. • Timely: create timeframes for completing steps, for example, doing short courses or talking with someone about the skills required for a particular job. • Empowering: make sure your goals feel right for you and help you make the changes you want. • Reviewable: do not set your goals in concrete; be flexible.
Design Your Career • Establish RIGHT Attitude • Be Inner-Positive • Strive for betterment. Focus on results & process • Non Complaining • Be Humble • Adopt learning attitude • Focus on contributing and not just taking • Be Grateful
Take Action • Planning will increase the likelihood of success, but it's important to remain flexible and open-minded. • You might have a couple of choices that interest you so take opportunities to prepare for both. • As you progress, your ideas might become more specific.
Take Action Some Questions you might ask yourself • Do you need additional job skills, experience or information? • What areas of yourself will you need to develop? • Do you need to develop a wider network or links with specific people? • What actions do you need to take to realize your career goals? • Do you need to find out more about what would be required to achieve your career goals? • What kind of work experience would be helpful to you? • What new job skills or knowledge will you need? • Do you need to demonstrate you have job skills in particular areas? • Are there contacts you can make, or relationships you can develop, that might help you? • Are there any changes you could make to the way you deal with people or work situations that might increase your likelihood of achieving your goals? How will you start to do this? • Who can you discuss your goals with? When will you do this?
Review & Adjust Your Plan • Career planning is a way of making the best use of your current situation and foreseeable opportunities. • Given that unpredictable events and changes can occur over time, view your plan as a guide and allow space for adjustments and changes to your approach. • The Career Plan you put in place at one stage of your life may not be relevant once you have achieved certain goals and experienced other job and life events. • Revisit your career plan will help to reinforce and clarify your thinking, and can help you decide if you need to change your career strategy, seek help or advice or put more effort into achieving your goals.
