Manage your career: develop a career plan

Careers Education Consultant

Learning objectives
Identify the importance of career planning Identify and understand your personal motivations Be able to apply and understand the DOTS/SODI model Be introduced to and able to apply the SMART model to goal planning

www.careers.monash.edu

What is a career?
Your career and how to be strategic Career - the process of managing life, learning work across the lifespan.

Dr. Mary McMahon

What is a career?
A career is the sum total of paid and unpaid work, learning and life roles you undertake throughout your life, including:

Work experience / Employment Community involvement Volunteer work Life roles Cultural activities Training & education Interests Hobbies

= The whole journey

www.careers.monash.edu

As almost every thing you do helps to develop your employability skills, most activities are a part of your career

www.careers.monash.edu

What are employability skills?

- Communication

- Teamwork - Planning and Organising

- Problem Solving

- Self Management
- Learning

- Initiative and Enterprise

- Technology

www.careers.monash.edu

Why should you career plan?

Planning helps increase your success by focussing your career research and job search (a good motivator during studies) Prevent that overwhelmed feeling Being willing to take responsibility for your career and life is the foundation for all success

www.careers.monash.edu

Career dreams
If you could enter any career, what would it be? Describe one day in an ideal job. What is your dream job? What would be the best part of it? In what ways will you recognise a job is right for you?

www.careers.monash.edu

Career planning - overview

Developing a Career plan (Decide & plan)
Implement & transition Job applications (Do)

Opportunity awareness Explore, find a direction (Discover external)

Self Awareness (Discover internal)

www.careers.monash.edu

Self Awareness
ETHNICITY FINANCIAL SPIRITUAL OTHERS SKILLS ABILITIES

EMOTIONAL VALUES PHYSICAL INTERESTS

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
INTELLECTUAL TIME PAST

PERSONAL STYLE

www.careers.monash.edu

Opportunity awareness
Explore and find out whats out there for you? Stay up-to-date in your field Analyse job vacancies Employers what do they want? Labour Market Trends Education, training, professional development

Professional Associations
Mentoring/coaching Information interviewing

www.careers.monash.edu

Opportunity Awareness:
Professional Associations (our site) Monash Using Your Degree Job Outlook: http://joboutlook.gov.au Graduate Careers: http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/ My Future: http://www.myfuture.edu.au/

Skills Victoria: http://www.skills.vic.gov.au/skills-and-jobsoutlook

www.careers.monash.edu

Decision making
Develop a job short list Analyse the choices Prioritise your options Take responsibility for your choices Set realistic time lines

Plan and review learn from mistakes

Set goals

www.careers.monash.edu

The SMART model for goal setting

SMART Plans Specific Measurable / manageable Achievable Realistic Time bound

www.careers.monash.edu

Implementation
Job research and search Written applications (resumes, cover letters, selection criteria responses)

Interviews
Networking Negotiating Bridging the skill gaps

www.careers.monash.edu

Effective career management habits

Be confident, do not underestimate yourself Become a problem solver Bring out the best in others Be adaptable to change Show flexibility

Be prepared to move sideways

Seize & or create opportunities Learn from & evaluate your mistakes & failures

www.careers.monash.edu

How often will you need to career plan

Career planning is not a one-off activity (The impact of unexpected events.?) Career change is inevitable Most people make several job, industry and occupation changes throughout their working life

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change Charles Darwin
www.careers.monash.edu

Resources
www.lib.monash.edu.au Library catalogues for Directory of Australian Associations
http://www.monash.edu.au/alumni/ - investigate Monash networks and mentoring programs Career Values Surveys: http://www.careervision.org/Quizzes.htm

http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/OCAvaluesassessment.sh tml
http://www.myfuture.edu.au/MyGuide/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl =%2fMyGuide.aspx
www.careers.monash.edu

Career Planning Information

www.careers.monash.edu

Activity: Start Planning Now!

Write a personal and professional goal

A goal I want to achieve by the end of 2012 In the next 2 years I want to achieve these two goals My main goals in life are write down as many as you like

www.careers.monash.edu

Your questions and comments

www.careers.monash.edu

Contact us
Tel: +61 03 9905 4170 Email: info@careers.monash.edu.au Web: www.careers.monash.edu

Join us on Facebook
(www.facebook.com/MonashECD)

careers.monash.edu

22