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Career 2.0 Take Control of Your Life

Career 2.0 Take Control of Your Life. Has your career been a random product of your manager's whims or company's needs? Never rely on your company to keep your skills current and marketable. Take control of your own career with a proven strategy.

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Career 2.0 Take Control of Your Life

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  1. Career 2.0Take Control of Your Life Has your career been a random product of your manager's whims or company's needs? Never rely on your company to keep your skills current and marketable. Take control of your own career with a proven strategy. These are solid, repeatable steps to get your career in the trajectory you want. The first step is deciding where you want to go. We'll walk through creating a long-term plan, then break it down into manageable steps. Learn to lead within your own company, then stretch out to your local, regional and national community, building your reputation as you go. From coding to writing to speaking, each step will move you closer to where you want to be: in a position of having options and in control of your career.

  2. Career 2.0Take Control of Your Life By Jared Richardson

  3. Your Career • It's most of your life • How will you spend it?

  4. Who Picks Your Skill Set? • Work assignments • You choose

  5. Move Beyond Random • Choose the technology • Be visible

  6. The Cynical Employer • Good enough to work • Not good enough to leave

  7. Knowledge Portfolio • Investment • Not free • Regular deposits

  8. Who Invests in You? • Employer • You

  9. You Keep the '401K' • Your brain goes with you • You get the biggest benefit • Employer might have a 'match' • Your investment is the largest factor

  10. Like the Stock Market • Some homeruns • Some strike outs • Over time, you win

  11. Your Life No one will invest in you as much as you Be prepared to sacrifice Don't expect others to sacrifice

  12. Your Responsibility • Long term goals • Short term deliverables

  13. Focus Your Efforts • Technical • Visible

  14. Flashlight • Energy => Light • Covered light => No benefit • Invest => Improve • Hidden work => Little benefit

  15. Goals • Long term goals • Break them down • One year • Quarterly • Monthly • Weekly • Daily

  16. Long Goals • Specific work • Work with the best • More opportunity • Book author • Recognized expert • Start a company

  17. Lose Weight • 12 pounds this year • 3 pounds a quarter • 1 pound a month • Today => no 2nd slice of pizza at Jug

  18. Technical Track • Sanity hacking • Open source • School or church projects • LOTY

  19. Visible • Write • Speak • Teach

  20. Write • Blog • Tutorials • Open source project • Articles • Books

  21. Blog • Too easy not too • You're not special • Problems are universal • Share your research • Share your solutions • http://www.blogger.com

  22. Documentation • How To's for your favorite project • Mailing lists or forums • Learn the project much better • Become known in that ecosystem • Easy to do

  23. Tutorials • Anything you had to show someone • Anything you had to look up • Junit tutorial • "hello world" in the LOTY

  24. Articles • Tech sites need content • Exposure not money

  25. Topics • Day-to-day work • Looked up • Figured out • Basic tutorials • The need is amazing

  26. Track Stats • Find out what works • What resonates • Watch traffic and links • Always a surprise

  27. Aggregators • Community visibility • http://www.artima.com/buzz/index.jsp • http://javablogs.com

  28. Practical Writing Tips • Mind maps • Wiki • Hipster PDA • Daily pages • Get feedback • Review books for authors

  29. Speak • Great way to learn • Deadlines motivate • User's groups always need speakers • Start a lunch-n-learn group

  30. Fear of Speaking • Toastmasters • Practice • Never turn down an invite • Practice • Video tape yourself • Practice

  31. LIP • Lock eyes • Intonation • Pause

  32. Teach • Best way to learn • Forces more detail • Teach more than once • User's groups • Local conferences (Bar Camp) • Graduate to regional and national

  33. Goal Tips • Write them down • Keep them visible • Share carefully • Find a mentor • Review your goals • Revise them

  34. Visible • Write • Speak • Teach

  35. Visibility is Credibility • Beyond resumes • Name recognition • Open source code samples • Reputation precedes you

  36. Example Goals With breakdowns

  37. Published Author • Write a book • Need chapters • Contains sections • Articles • Blog entries • Today you blog

  38. Work with the Best • Must be known • Join open source projects • Blog about your work • Must speak • Today you outline an article • Today you fix an open source bug • Today answer a mailing list question

  39. Recognized Expert • Must be known for something • Pick a technology or area • Track the existing blogs • Read existing books • Blog on lessons learned • Present at your local user's group

  40. Learn a New Technology • Read the blogs • Pick a project (home, school, church) • Implement a sanity project • Work on your own time • Today find a tutorial. Do it.

  41. The Goal? • Not to quit • Having options • Inside or outside your company • Consulting or full-time • Your choice

  42. It's Your Life • Take control • Don't drift • Choose your goals • Break them down • Tackle one next week

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