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Pushing the Sky’s Limit: Advancing Your Career at uWaterloo

Pushing the Sky’s Limit: Advancing Your Career at uWaterloo. Liz Koblyk, Staff Career Advisor Centre for Career Action. 4 Keys. E motional Intelligence Feedback Connectedness Accountability. Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence. Anticipate impact on others

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Pushing the Sky’s Limit: Advancing Your Career at uWaterloo

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  1. Pushing the Sky’s Limit:Advancing Your Career at uWaterloo Liz Koblyk, Staff Career Advisor Centre for Career Action

  2. 4 Keys • Emotional Intelligence • Feedback • Connectedness • Accountability

  3. Emotional Intelligence

  4. Emotional Intelligence • Anticipate impact on others • Manage own emotions • Treat others better than they expect to be treated

  5. IT Challenge • Yelled at by panicked people • Ideas rejected by people with little technical knowledge

  6. IT Career Growth • Direction of career growth • Manage people? • Keep customer contact? • Keep hand in tech work?

  7. Secrets of Success • Reading: Goleman, Bar-On • Training: OHD, CEL, Counselling workshops for staff • Career advising: MBTI Step 1 or 2

  8. Feedback

  9. Feedback • Request frequently • Thank without defending • Act on it • Ask about progress

  10. IT Challenge • No feedback = good

  11. Secrets of Success • Feedback from supervisor outside PA • Free 360 tools • LinkedIn recommendations

  12. Secrets of Success • What Got You Here Won’t Get You There • MBTI • Careful requests (specific or start – stop – continue)

  13. Secrets of Success • What Got You Here Won’t Get You There • MBTI • Careful requests (specific or start – stop – continue)

  14. Connected • Connected people: many people know key ways they can help • Sustained effort spent on relationships over time

  15. Secrets of Success • Cross-campus volunteering • WatITis, Staff Conference, Staff Association, Keystone Campaign Events, Committees

  16. Secrets of Success • Training workshops: OHD, CEL • “Networking is Not a Dirty Word” • Willingness to follow up! • Coffee = continued relationship

  17. Accountable • Discuss career development • Identify skills gaps • Fill skills gaps • Articulate skills & their value to specific employers

  18. IT Challenge • Some roles have clear career paths; others don’t • Opportunities presented may not appeal

  19. Secrets of Success • Plan for discussions with supervisors • Collect postings of interest • Write “ideal” job postings

  20. Secrets of Success • What do you have? What are you missing? • How can you get what you’re missing? • How will your skills solve employer’s problems?

  21. Trouble Articulating Skills? • Career Development eManual • Sell Your Skills workshop • Skills identification 1:1 • Mock interview 1:1

  22. From the Mouths of Waterloo Hiring Managers “The manager’s job is to give good feedback, provide opportunities and have frank discussions. The employee’s job is to take ownership of their job performance and their career advancement.”

  23. From the Mouths of Waterloo Hiring Managers “Assess your own performance. Know how you’ve done AND how you know how you’ve done.” “None of us is perfect at everything. None of us is even good at everything.” Find your weakness, then “learn.”

  24. From the Mouths of Waterloo Hiring Managers “Come into performance reviews talking about the future. Say ‘Here’s where I need to focus my development.’”

  25. Questions? Appointments and workshops: www.careeraction.uwaterloo.ca Twitter: @UniCareers Liz Koblyk: lkoblyk@uwaterloo.ca, x31003

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