The power of your career goals and future work self

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Strategic Career Self-Management

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The State University of New York

Strategic Career Self-Management

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Cours 1 sur 4 dans 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.

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Crafting career self-strategy

By completing Week 3, you will be able to apply the tools of career self-management such as mapping your skill base in the Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous (VUCA) environment. You will be able to implement self-discovery skills and better define your career goals and Future work self! You instructor for this week is Kymn Rutigliano, CDL Workouts facilitators are Amy Giaculli and Val Chukhlomin.

Week 3 Overview0:36

The power of self discovery: Your personality (pdf attached)3:08

The power of self discovery: Your core values (pdf attached)5:35

Personal mission statement: Exercise (pdf attached)5:18

The power of self management6:50

The power of your career goals and future work self5:25

Core values and personal mission: An interview with Jason Collins4:47

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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

Welcome back. Now that we've explored the keys of

self-discovery and self-management, let's look at more keys

to career success in the VUCA environment, career goals, and your future work self.

Let me ask you this.

Where do you want to be a year from now?

Three years from now?

Five years from now?

Those are important questions to grapple with.

Now before you zero in on the answers, I want you to take a moment and

review what's in your Career Development Lab portfolio.

I'd like you to review your worksheets, your personality profile,

your value statement, your personal mission statement.

Review what you learned about self control, self regulation, and

self directed learning in the templates that you completed,

and then I want you to think.

Take the time to think.

Let your mind wander.

Think inside the box.

Think outside the box.

Turn the box upside down, shake it all around.

Really think.

And reflect on your personality, your values, your mission.

And then, and only then, zero in on your career goals.

And think about them as specifically as you can.

Not just, I want to get promoted, or I want to change companies.

But within 12 months, I want to be promoted to Associate Professor,

and stay with my college, but have expanded responsibilities.

Something like that.

So I'd like you to pause now and really do that soul searching and

turn that box upside down, and get outside of it, and look inside, and

do all of that work so that you can come up with your career goals.

But take as long as you need because this is really important.

And then come back when you're ready and I'll be right here.

Thanks.

Now you got your career goals all written out?

At least sketched out at this point?

We're going to assume that you do and

take the next step which is envisioning your future work self.

Now this is where you see yourself with more competencies and skills.

Where you have expanded your impact and where you have greater career agility.

Now in the traditional world there was little need to think about your

future career stuff, because first of all, you weren't in charge.

You weren't behind the steering wheel.

You weren't the CEO of your own career.

The company was.

But in the VUCA environment you are the CEO of your career.

You are in the driver's seat.

That it's up to you to determine where you want to go.

So that's why doing your career goals first and

now envisioning your future work self is important.

Now what do I mean by envision?

Actually imagine your future.

Imagine the environment that you're in, imagine who you're working with,

imagine the work that you're doing that is incredibly fulfilling and satisfying.

Imagine all of that.

And in the literature, the term future work self refers to an individual's

representation of him or herself

in their future position that reflects one's hopes and aspirations.

So simply put, envision yourself in the job or career you want and when you

actually envision that provides a special kind of fuel to help you get there.

When you can see yourself in that role, in that position,

in that career, in that job.

It actually, envisioning fuels your actions to getting there.

So this is very important in being proactive in career self-management.

So again, you're in the driver's seat.

It's smart to imagine your future.

It's proactive, it's effective.

And once again it keeps you in the driver's seat.

So I'd like you to now take a pause, and

do this work of envisioning very specifically.

As I said, the exact environment you want to be in.

The circumstances that surround that environment.

The kind of work you want to be doing.

Who you want to be doing it with.

And where you want to be doing it, maybe you want to be in a different state,

in a different country.

Maybe you want to work solo in your own enterprise, or maybe you only want to work

collaboratively either virtually or in a physical work environment with others.

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