pushing the sky’s limit: advancing your career at uwaterloo
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Pushing the Sky’s Limit: Advancing Your Career at uWaterloo. Liz Koblyk, Staff Career Advisor Centre for Career Action. 4 Keys. E motional Intelligence Feedback Connectedness Accountability. Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence. Anticipate impact on others - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Pushing the Sky’s Limit:Advancing Your Career
at uWaterlooLiz Koblyk, Staff Career AdvisorCentre for Career Action
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» Emotional Intelligence» Feedback» Connectedness» Accountability
4 Keys
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Emotional Intelligence
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» Anticipate impact on others » Manage own emotions» Treat others better than they expect to be treated
Emotional Intelligence
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» Yelled at by panicked people» Ideas rejected by people with little technical knowledge
IT Challenge
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Direction of career growth» Manage people?» Keep customer contact?» Keep hand in tech work?
IT Career Growth
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» Reading: Goleman, Bar-On » Training: OHD, CEL, Counselling workshops for staff» Career advising: MBTI Step 1 or 2
Secrets of Success
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Feedback
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» Request frequently » Thank without defending » Act on it» Ask about progress
Feedback
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» No feedback = good
IT Challenge
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» Feedback from supervisor outside PA» Free 360 tools» LinkedIn recommendations
Secrets of Success
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» What Got You Here Won’t Get You There » MBTI» Careful requests (specific or start – stop – continue)
Secrets of Success
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» What Got You Here Won’t Get You There » MBTI» Careful requests (specific or start – stop – continue)
Secrets of Success
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Connected» Connected people: many people know key ways they can help» Sustained effort spent on relationships over time
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» Cross-campus volunteering » WatITis, Staff Conference, Staff Association, Keystone Campaign Events, Committees
Secrets of Success
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» Training workshops: OHD, CEL»“Networking is Not a Dirty Word” » Willingness to follow up! » Coffee = continued relationship
Secrets of Success
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» Discuss career development » Identify skills gaps » Fill skills gaps » Articulate skills & their value to specific employers
Accountable
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» Some roles have clear career paths; others don’t» Opportunities presented may not appeal
IT Challenge
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Secrets of Success» Plan for discussions with supervisors » Collect postings of interest» Write “ideal” job postings
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Secrets of Success» What do you have? What are you missing?» How can you get what you’re missing?» How will your skills solve employer’s problems?
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Trouble Articulating Skills?
» Career Development eManual » Sell Your Skills workshop» Skills identification 1:1» Mock interview 1:1
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From the Mouths of Waterloo Hiring Managers “The manager’s job is to give good feedback, provide opportunities and have frank discussions. The employee’s job is to take ownership of their job performance and their career advancement.”
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From the Mouths of Waterloo Hiring Managers “Assess your own performance. Know how you’ve done AND how you know how you’ve done.” “None of us is perfect at everything. None of us is even good at everything.” Find your weakness, then “learn.”
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From the Mouths of Waterloo Hiring Managers “Come into performance reviews talking about the future. Say ‘Here’s where I need to focus my development.’”
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Questions?
Appointments and workshops: www.careeraction.uwaterloo.ca
Twitter: @UniCareers
Liz Koblyk: [email protected], x31003