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Careers strategies for distruptive age

This document provides career strategies for navigating a disruptive job market. It discusses developing a personal brand by identifying skills, experiences, and unique selling points. Goals should be specific, with strategies for where to look for jobs and who can help. Affirmations, visualization, and daily action are key to achieving goals. Maintaining momentum by believing in oneself is emphasized.

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Career Strategies for a Disruptive Age 15 September 2010 University of Greenwich 1 Graduate Career & Job Fair
Outline  Personal Branding  Goal Achieving Strategies  Action 2
First Thing First  What are the words people associate with you and how would others describe you?  What are the attributes and skills associated with you?  Do you know what your personal brand represents?
What is Your Personal Brand?  Personal Branding is about developing an image of yourself that you want to project in everything you do. It’s not about being fake or superficial.  Your personal brand is about your reputation, character and personality and how you strategically manage that combination to help advance your career.  A Personal Brand is nothing more than the public projection of your personality and skills
Creating the Brand  Identity – Who are you?  What are your Skills?  What are your Achievements?  What is your Knowledge?  What is your Experience?  What are you bringing to the table?  What is your Unique Selling Point?  What can employers get from you that they can not get from others?
Transferable Skills  Communication skill  Social Savvy  Negotiation skill  Expert in Etiquette  Accountability skill  Master of Ceremonies  Problem solving skill  Mediation  Multi-tasking skill  Graphic Design  Presentation skill  Press relations  Speech writing  Any other?  Proof reading
Skills Diagnostic Tool  To have greater awareness of your soft skills and to find out more about your employability skills go to:  http://careersadvice.direct.gov.uk/helpwithyourcareer/ skills/  The Skills Health Check helps you find out more about: • your personal skills • what you might look for in a workplace • what you enjoy doing including working with numbers and written information 
Communicating Your Personal Brand to Employers  How do you communicate your personal brand?  The writing: use of words like adapting, organising, leading, co-operating and interpreting  The Visual: How do you dress? Are you professional?  The Verbal: How do you speak? How do you say what you mean? The Key words: Bright, clear, pleasant and simple  Your Internet Reputation (‘NetRep’)  Your research – about the company & industry 8
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Goal Achieving Strategies I keep six honest men (they taught me all I knew). Their names are: What and Why and When. And How and Where and Who. - Rudyard Kipling (1902) – Just So Stories
Identifying Your Career Goals Questions to consider:  What kind of job are you looking for?  What are your career aims i.e. where do you see yourself in 6 months, 3 years & 5 years?
Where to look for  Newspapers  Recruitment consultants  Specialist publications  On-line job sites  Contacts  Social networking sites  Speculative applications  Job Centre  Job Fairs
Who Can Help? Friends Family Team Trusted Members Associates YOU Trusted Colleagues Recruitm ent Agencies Mentors/ Coach
How  Write it Down  Plan! Plan!! Plan!!!  Break it down & Start Small  Power of Affirmation (the making of verbal statements of the desires outcome of your thought process)  Power of Visualisation (your ability to create an imagination of the outcome of your thought process)
Power of Affirmation the making of verbal statements of the desires outcome of your thought process 27.05.2006 09.09.2008 15
Power of Affirmation & Positive Self-Talk I, (inset your name) am an honest, intelligent, goal-oriented, organised, responsible, committed and punctual individual. I am highly motivated, optimistic, enthusiastic, positive, focused and a self-starter. I am decisive, competent, disciplined, persistent, knowledgeable, creative, resourceful team player who makes choices. I am an emotional, intelligent, confident believer and an extra-miller. I am energised, I have great self-control and a healthy self-image, and I manage my self-well. These are the qualities of the winner I was born to be and by using them every day, I will maintain my momentum and have employment security in a no-job security world. These will also enable me to get more of the things money will buy and more of the things money won’t buy. I am so happy and grateful that money now comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis. It’s tough out there but I continue to be a winner. Special thanks to Zig Ziglar, Bob Proctor and Phillip Green for inspiring this self-talk 16
You! You!! You!!!  To be successful in life, love and business you need to have total belief and faith that you can achieve what ever you set your mind too. You and only you can reprogram yourself to Believe.  Believe in your skill  Believe in your ability  Maintain momentum  Never Give Up
What Do They Have in Common? Larry Page & Sergey Madonna - Music Kanya King - Mobo Brin - Google Oprah Winfrey - TV Bill Gates - Steve Jobs - Apple Microsoft
Take Action Everyday  Don’t procrastinate  To get a job, complete the application form or call the agency.  Do something everyday that will take you to where you are going  There are only 527, 040 minutes in a leap year – utilise it wisely!  "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", but 5,280,000 additional steps require after that first one! Every day, take one step closer.  As the famous Nike sports logo says just do it! 19
You Got The Power!