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Strategic Career Self-Management

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The State University of New York

Strategic Career Self-Management

151 оценки

Course 1 of 4 in the Specialization Career Brand Management

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the current economy, Americans shift jobs every 4-5 years, which translates into 8-10 job transitions, including several career changes, over one’s life time. With competition for jobs on the rise, a person’s continuing employability and career success are increasingly defined by his or her mastery of individual career development and the ability to effectively "manage oneself" (P. Drucker). In this course, you will learn how to think strategically and professionally about your career self-management. Through this course you'll develop an objective, external view of your marketable skills as a solid foundation for building a strong career brand. In particular, you'll be able to: - explain why developing a protean and boundaryless career perspective based on transferable (portable) skills is advantageous for continuing employability and career growth; - design your portable skills portfolio, identify and examine critically important competencies underpinning your transferable skills, and analyze your career self-management competency gaps; - increase self-awareness, pinpoint your career goals, and envision your future work self; - recognize the central role of self-management for developing transferable, marketable, skills and create a customized self-management information system (Career Development Lab) for ongoing personal development and professional growth; - conduct a thorough, competency-based job analysis in your area of interest and examine practices of evidence-based, data-driven competitive employee selection; -implement your newly developed skills for crafting effective selection criteria statements and refining your job applications.

From the lesson

Putting career self-management to work

In Week 5, you will focus on your next job and apply competency mapping for creating a powerful selection criteria statement. You will examine ways of presenting the evidence of your knowledge, skills, and abilities, and putting it all together to create a solid foundation for your brand. Your instructor for this week is John Beckem. CDL Workout facilitators are Amy Giaculli and Val Chukhlomin.

Week 5 Overview0:31

Your next job4:47

Competency mapping5:07

Strategic plan4:31

Presenting evidence4:22

Putting it all together4:48

Preparing for a job interview & Self-management on the job: An Interview with Richard Sellers23:21

Meet the Instructors

Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin
Professor
SUNY Empire State College
Dr. Michele Forte
Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College
Community and Human Services
Dr. Kymn Harvin Rutigliano
Assistant Professor
SUNY Empire State College
Dr. John M. Beckem II
Assistant Professor of Finance and Management Studies
State University of New York, Empire State College
Dr. Tonka Jokelova
Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design
SUNY Empire State College
Amy Giaculli
Assessment Specialist
SUNY Empire State College

Hello and welcome back.

In this video, we will discuss your next job.

Why have you selected this job?

And also, have you selected a company, and why have you selected that company?

So let's talk about your next job.

So that job that you're seeking, that you're doing all of this work,

that you're being able to look at the job description,

you're looking at someone who's serving in this capacity.

So you narrowed it down to maybe three to five jobs that you're seeking.

So why have you picked this job?

Have you analyzed, does it properly or naturally fit with your strengths?

Remember in previous video we talked about doing a SWOT analysis.

So by now you should understand your strengths,

your weaknesses, your opportunities and

your threats concerning yourself in relation to you pursuing a job or career.

And so by you selecting this job.

As I said does it naturally fit your strengths?

Does it coincide with what you're good at?

And is there opportunity for advancement?

Maybe it's not so

strong or fitting your strengths, but it's a step to lead to that next job.

And, so, we want to analyze why you picked this job.

It's gonna help you in the interview process to be able to disseminate and

articulate to the person who's interviewing you

exactly why you picked that job.

Next, let's look at why have you selected this company?

So, if you narrowed it down to a handful of companies and

those are the ones that you're going to apply to, why have you picked it?

The things you need to look at is,

also, do I want an environment such as Google, where it's open, and

it's flowing, and they have intrinsic and extrinsic value?

I can bring my children to work and it's part of the culture, or

do you fit well with more of like a blue-chip company, such as IBM,

that's more traditional, that's rooted in a lot of old traditions that hold true.

And so after you figure out why you've selected this company,

we wanna start to do some research.

There are avenues, such as the Internet, where you can pull up all of the history

about a company, what it's done in the past, what it's currently doing.

Maybe you want to interview someone who worked for

that company or who has recently retired from that company.

In part, your research is not just looking at the history and culture and

environment of a company, you want to be able to discern

where you can put your strength to work at in that company.

Is there any opportunity where this company can improve, and

in that gap, does your strength fit well?

So for instance, in my previous example, if I utilize myself as a plant manager,

maybe I have found a company such as Ford Motor Company, and

maybe this particular company's operational clause are hirgher in the industry standard.

So if I have the strengths of being able to go in and solve problems and

be able to put in processes to help reduce the cost of operations,

I then can say, well I've done my history and what I've noticed through my research,

is that your operational costs are a little higher than industry standards.

And I have some ideas and

processes that have worked in the past that will help reduce those costs.

And so now what you're doing is,

you're showing this company where your strengths bring value to the company.

So, it's more or less the company needs you to be able to perform at capacity and

that's how you stick out amongst all the other candidates that

are applying for this job.

You're meeting the company's needs, and you're meeting it immediately.

So, what have we learned?

We learned the importance of being able to know, emphatically,

why I have selected this particular job.

This is the job that I want to go into, I have researched the job description,

I have researched individuals who already serve in this capacity,

it naturally fits into my strengths, and I see a great opportunity for

me to excel at this particular job.

Also, we've learned about the importance of selecting the proper company

that coincides with your strengths.

I wanted to be with a company that empowers me and that gives me freedom for

creativity.

I work best in that type of company.

Where someone else might work best in a company that is a little bit

more traditional.

A little bit more strategic in how they give directions.

And so after I've done that work, we also learn how to then be able to

research a company and figure out where can I go in and

put my best use of my strengths to work to improve the company, which is also

going to help me in my performance as I try to continue to excel to the next level.

Thank you.

In our next video, we will be talking about competency mapping and whether or

not you are ready based upon that mapping of your competency.

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