Managing your career

Gone too today is any assurance that your development will be taken care of by a benevolent employer seeking to foster talents for future promotion. Sponsored management development and training still of course continues, but the context has irrevocably shifted. It is we as individuals who must now take the prime responsibility for our development and for managing our careers. 

Career management is beyond the scope of this book. The point being made in this section is that you must take responsibility for the development that you need to support your career. You may want to take this into account in your future experlentlzd learning. 

Consider the four gods of management. Which god best fits your personality. Write a short essay explaining why you believe this is so. Assuming your analysis is correct, write a paragraph explaining the implications of your observations for your career choice. 

Who has major responsibility for career management What steps will you take to manage your own career ... 

Banks, C. (2003). Careers How to manage your time effectively. Nursing Times 99 60-1. 

Your resume is often your only opportunity to clearly and concisely communicate your value to others, particularly hiring managers. If you have not updated your resume or curriculum vitae recently (either due to procrastination or lack of professional achievement), figure out why, and take the time necessary to improve this all-important document. Can you fully explain any gaps in time If your career has followed a non-traditional trajectory, do you understand how to communicate this as an asset to a prospective employer ... 

A more healthy option is to deal with the person as a valuable resource. Point them to projects where they can succeed and have a positive impact on the organization. This affects your career, and demonstrates to peer management that you can deal with this kind of employee. 

Our members enjoy industry recognition for their professional competence and enhanced career opportunities as a result, because we set the standard for professional excellence in mechanical engineering. To achieve this recognition of your skills and to manage yoitr career development, it s important that you maintain your membership of IMechE and take advantage of the opportunities we have to offer to help you fulfil your potential. 

It is important for you, the graduating student, to understand the principles presented in this chapter at the beginning of your professional career in order to manage your money skillfully. As a result, we have elected to integrate discussions and exanples of personal money management throughout the chapter. 

An altogether different way of looking at your management development in the context of your life and career is provided by a unique book by Carol Pearson entitled The Hero Within (1989). Subtitled Six Archetypes We Live By, the book describes characters we may Inhabit as we move through life. Within each archetype Pearson sees a heroic element, which we need to discover and bring out in ourselves. 

If you re using a chronological resume format, simply by looking at your job titles, the reader should be able to see career advancement. Because your most recent work experience will be listed first, your highest job title should be the one described first. So, if that job title was Marketing Manager, for example, other job titles listed on your resume (as the readers work their way back in your... 

Priced between 19.95 and 39.95, some of the more powerful resume-creation software packages are designed to assist you in virtually every aspect of your job-search process. For example, some have built-in contact management applications (for keeping track of potential employers) and an appointment book application (to handle the scheduling of interviews). Some packages are compatible with the various career-related websites and will automatically find the best job opportunities for you and help you apply for those jobs online. 

The software is compatible with 90 of the Web s most popular career-related sites and is designed to help you find the best job opportunities based on your search criteria and then apply for those jobs online using an automated process. The software also features a contact manager, designed to help you keep track of each potential employer and the contacts at each company. 

By taking advantage of your computer s multimedia capabilities, sound, video, and graphics are used to offer tutorials and career-related advice. Upon creating your resume and cover letter, the software s contact management module can be used for keeping track of the potential employers you contact. 

A career path is a combination of self-management, fiscal management, and operations management. When all three of these are accomplished, the candidate has the potential for a great career. Quite frequently executives are asked, How do I move up in your organization The following are some helpful suggestions ... 

There is a big difference between the choices of topics for academic scientists and the choices of industry. Industry whatever it might say, is profit driven and market focused. Ph.D.-level scientists in a pharmaceutical company work in line-management mode. That is to say, a scientist may be hired to do all receptor work, not, say, just histamine receptor work, hr fact, if you are the histamine receptor guy and the company moves out of histamine receptors (because there are too many and the company has lost interest in allergy and in acid stomach), your immediate career may be in big trouble. 

Avoid staying on the scientific ladder. Career change for those who have been on the scientific ladder for years can be diffievit... mme intro a management position, or... stay very current on developments in your field of expertise. (italics added)... 

Peck (1987) described a patient who was regularly beaten by his father as a child. As a result of his re-enactment, his chosen career was as a homicide detective, where he sought out the most violent crimes. Kets de Vries (1989), in a psychodynamic analysis of famous business leaders, suggests a frequent occurrence of absentee fathers (physical or emotional). The desire to be a leader/manager expresses the desire to become your own father and raise yourself again the right way , with total control over the events. It is hypothesized that this is why control is such an issue for these managers. This is... 

How do your managers and supervisors encourage and motivate employees to develop and utilize their full potential Include formal and/or informal mechanisms you use to encourage and support employees in job- and career-related development/learning objectives. 

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