Have you ever wanted to do something

different with your career?

24th & 25th September 2011

Lisa Happell – Career Consultant – O428 609 568 – Email: lisapa@bigpond.net.au - www.career4connect.com.au

• Welcome• Desire to Change• Case Studies• Transferable Skills• A Change is as Good as a Holiday• Chance events & Possibilities• Pack your Bags• Conclusion

Career Change

Exercise 1 D = Desire/Dissatisfaction

V = Vision

P = Practical Steps

C = Costs

Desire to Change

Exercise 2 Mary = Business Analyst to Teaching

James = Teaching to Own Business

Kathy = Science – Guide Dogs – Emergency Medicine Physician

Case Studies

• Transferable skills. (Exercise 3) (Communication Skills, Leadership & Management, Planning & Research, Teamwork & Interpersonal Skills, Self Management)

• Achievements & Strengths CAR – Challenge, Action, Result

• Values (Exercise 4) - Highlight top 6 values - Be aware of these when looking at new opportunities

Self Awareness & Assessment

ValuesAchievement (attaining goals, sense of accomplishment)

Earning potential (attaining financial purchasing power through strong and rising income)

Learning (you have the opportunity to learn new things)

Advancement (enjoying frequent or rapid opportunities for growth or promotion)

Excitement ((experiencing risk or adventure in your work)

Personal challenge (testing your abilities against those of others)

Aesthetics (working in an appealing or attractive environment)

Family (work environment and structures that are family focused)

Power and authority (exercising control and commanding respect)

Assistance (directly helping individuals or small groups of people)

Flexibility (retaining the freedom to shape your tasks, schedule or work format)

Public contact (being in frequent or ongoing dialogue with colleagues and the public)

Autonomy (working with minimal direction from others or being self employed)

Friendship (developing close relationships with may extend into the personal sphere with people from work)

Recognition (becoming known to professional peers or the public for your capability/success in your field)

Benefits (receiving health insurance, paid holidays/vacation, superannuation etc)

Health (physical and mental well-being) Security (ensuring that your job and salary are stable)

Community (working with others that share your interests and values whether or not you become personally close to them)

Idealism (contributing to ideals or causes that are important to you)

Task predictability (knowing in advance what responsibilities you will handle each day)

Creativity (being imaginative, original, inventive)

Influence (guiding or changing the opinion of others)

Teamwork (collaborating with others)

Achievement (attaining goals, sense of accomplishment)

Intellectual challenge (testing your abilities against set goals, stimulating your mind)

Time Predictability (maintaining the same daily schedule)

Advancement (enjoying frequent or rapid opportunities for growth or promotion)

Integrity (honesty, sincerity, standing up for beliefs)

Travel (travelling frequently – at least 20% of your working time)

• Research/Inspiration/Possibilities (internet, friends, books, articles)

• Likes/dislikes/interests/holiday type/whose going

• Pack Bags

• Career Change is like preparing for a holiday

Holiday

• Do your research (read, look at job sites, internet)

Research

Career Choice ExerciseExercise 5

Search (for a new role within your existing organisation)

Stretch(for a new role in a new organisation)

Stabilise(Stay in the existing organisation and in the same role)

ShiftTo a new organisation doing the same role.

Source: McMahon, G & Archer, A (2010) 101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques, Routledge, London and New York.

Nurse Activity

Source: Amundson, N.E., Poehell, G., Pattern, M (2003) Career Scope: Looking In Looking Out, Looking Around. Canada: Ergon Communications.

Health Teacher Medical Lab Technician

Medical Secretary

Medical Social WorkerNursing AidRadiologist

Doctor

MidwifePharmacist

Dental Hygienist

Medical Claims AssessorHome Care WorkerHealth Care Aide

Dietician

Nurse

Research & Networks

You already have a vast number of people, or "contacts", in your network.  

Chance EventsStudies show 80% of adults say a chance event has significantly altered their career. (GFC, Family, Chance Meeting, health)

Inspiration

Inspiration.  literally means to inhale and it suggests the link between action and inspiration.  The more you move the more you need to inhale and the more you move the more chances for inspiration.  Seek out others’ ideas through meetings, conversations and invitations. Expose yourself to new ideas via other mediums such as books, classes, training, newspapers, magazines and television, internet, theatre, galleries and museums.  Choose things that are novel to you, break the routine. The aim here is not directly to “get a job” or even direction.  Simply the idea is to be exposed to many different experiences.

Source: Jim Bright (2010) ‘Beyond Personal Mastery’ – www.beyondpersonalmastery.com

Inspiration, Chance Events

• Career Section ‘SMH’ – Switch Articles• ABC Radio – interviews, Good Weekend, General reading, Television• Short courses• Network (talk to people) • Trips/Travel• Change your work hours to free up time• Volunteering (www.volunteeringaustralia.org)• http://www.smh.com.au/advertisers/enrichedlist/• Join Professional Associations • LinkedIn/Business Chicks/Mentoring Australia

Inspiration & Chance Events

Pack Your Bags

Resume, Inspiration, Career Journal

Transferable Skills, Strengths, Values

Networking Techniques, Weaknesses, dislikes, Interests, Personality

Career Summary (lift explanation)

• Prepare, Prepare, Prepare• Research, Research, Research• Network, Network, Network, • Be Confident• Learn from the experience• Get Inspiration• Pack your Bags

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