CHAPTER 9

Managing Car eer s

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CHAPTER 9 TOPICS:
❘ 1: Who manages your career?
❘ 2: Career definition
❘ 3: Focus for individual and organization
❘ 4: Career development
❘ 5: Value of career development
❘ 6: Career steps
❘ 7: Holland Vocational Preferences
❘ 8: Individual differences and jobs
❘ 9: Suggestions

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1: WHO MANAGES YOUR
CAREER?

❚ MOM
❚ DAD
❚ ACADEMIC
ADVISOR
❚ CAREER CENTER
❚ FRIEND (_________)
❚ HR GUY AT WORK

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1: WHO MANAGES YOUR
CAREER?

❚ THEY CAN ALL

HELP, BUT IT
BETTER BE

❚ YOU

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2: CAREER DEFINITION

❚ WHAT DID YOUR

FRIENDS SAY - DO
THEY HAVE A JOB
OR A CAREER?
❚ HOW DID THEY
DESCRIBE A
DIFFERENCE?
❚ WHAT DO YOU
THINK?

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2: WHAT IS A CAREER?

❚ Pattern
❚ Work-related
experiences
❚ Life span
❚ Commitment
❚ Persistence
❚ Advancement
❚ Success

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3: FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL
AND ORGANIZATION

❚ Dual perspective
❙ Individual
❙ Organizational
❚ Emphasis here?
Organizational
❚ Balance and
consideration of
both

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3: INDIVIDUAL CAREER
MANAGMENT
❙ Personal goals
❙ Achievement of
goals
❙ Life planning and
analysis
❙ Balancing work and
family, other
priorities
❙ Training, education

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3: ORGANIZATIONAL
CAREER MANAGEMENT
❙ Tracking career
paths
❙ Developing career
ladders
❙ Monitoring special
groups
❙ Organizational
career planning
❙ Job needs

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4: CAREER COMPARED TO
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT

❚ Longer time frame

than employee
development
❚ Focus on long term
❙ Success
❙ Effectiveness
❚ Compatible
❙ Long term needs
❙ Dynamic changes

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5: VALUE TO THE
ORGANIZATION

❚ Needed talent pool

❚ High talent workers
❙ Attract
❙ Retain
❚ Growth, development
opportunities
❙ Minorities
❙ Women
❚ AND….

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5: VALUE TO THE
ORGANIZATION

❚ Reduce employee
frustration
❚ Enhance cultural
diversity
❚ Promote
organizational
goodwill

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5: VALUE TO THE
INDIVIDUAL
❚ EXTERNAL
❙ Extrinsic
❙ Objective

❚ INTERNAL
❙ Intrinsic
❙ Subjective

❚ MOTIVATIONS ARE
DIFFERENT

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5: EXTERNAL VALUE TO
THE INDIVIDUAL

❚ Status - hierarchy
❚ Flexibility
❚ Opportunity-
promotion
❚ Characteristics of
organization or job
❚ Money

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5: INTERNAL VALUE TO
THE INDIVIDUAL

❚ Meaning
❚ Respect
❚ Family
❚ Relationships
❚ Satisfaction

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6: CAREER STEPS

❚ Exploration
❚ Establishment
❚ Mid-career
❚ Late-career
❚ Decline

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6: EXPLORATION

❚ Training
❚ Trying lots of
options
❚ Finding what you
like
❚ New beginnings
❚ Find a mentor

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6: ESTABLISHMENT

❚ Putting down roots

❚ Sending up shoots
❚ Becoming an
expert
❚ Making your mark
❚ Have a mentor

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6: MID-CAREER

❚ Level of comfort
❚ Demonstrated
success
❚ Maybe boredom,
time to start over
❚ Maybe satisfaction,
enjoyment
❚ Be a mentor

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6: LATE-CAREER

❚ Be a mentor
❚ Coach
❚ Energy devoted
elsewhere
❚ New or different
interests
❚ Influencer, more
powerful

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6: DECLINE

❚ Retirement
❚ Change of life
focus
❚ Legacy

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7: HOLLAND VOCATIONAL
PREFERENCES

❚ People have
different
preferences
❚ People work better
at jobs they like
❚ Communication is
better between
workers with
similar interests

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7: HOLLAND VOCATIONAL
PREFERENCES

❚ Realistic
❚ Investigative
❚ Artistic
❚ Social
❚ Enterprising
❚ Conventional

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7: HOLLAND PREFERENCE
DIMENSIONS

❚ Being with people

❙ Realistic
❙ Social
❚ Action
❙ Investigative
❙ Enterprising
❚ Who provides
structure?
❙ Artistic
❙ Conventional

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7: SCHEIN CAREER
ANCHORS (PREFERENCE)

❚ Technical-functional
competence
❚ Managerial
competence
❚ Security-stability
❚ Creativity
❚ Autonomy-
independence

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8: INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCES AND JOBS

❚ Jungian personality
typology
❚ Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator(MBTI)
❚ Match individual
characteristics with
job characteristics
❚ Similar to vocational
preferences

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8: MBTI DIMENSIONS

❚ Orientation to the
outer world
❚ Information
gathering source
❚ Information
evaluation process
❚ Closure seeking

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8: MBTI - OUTER WORLD

❚ Extraversion (E)
❙ Energy builds with
people

❚ Introversion (I)
❙ Energy drained with
people

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8: INFORMATION
GATHERING

❚ Sensing (S)
❙ Focus on what is

❚ Intuitive (N)
❙ Focus on what
might be

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8: INFORMATION
EVALUATION

❚ Thinking (T)
❙ Linear, rational

❚ Feeling (F)
❙ Holistic

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8: CLOSURE SEEKING

❚ Judging (J)
❙ Once it’s done, it’s
done

❚ Perceiving (P)
❙ Always willing to
reopen a subject

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9: CAREER SUGGESTIONS

❚ Select first job

carefully
❙ Power department
❚ Do good work
❚ Project the right image
❚ Learn the power
structure
❚ AND….

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9: MORE CAREER
SUGGESTIONS

❚ Gain control of
organizational
resources
❚ Stay visible
❚ Don’t stay too long
❚ Find a mentor
❚ Support your boss
❚ Stay mobile
❚ AND….

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9: MORE CAREER
SUGGESTIONS

❚ Think laterally
❚ Internships
❚ Acquire skills
❚ Upgrade skills
❚ Develop network
❚ AND….

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9: TO KEEP YOUR
CAREER GOING (D.A.T.A.)

❚ D esire
❙ More than experience
❚ A bility
❙ Can’t quit growing
❚ T emperament
❙ Security is a thing of the
past
❚ A ssets
❙ Networking, skills, etc.

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REVIEW CHAPTER 9

❚ Do you have a
career or a job?
❚ Is job satisfaction
internal or
external?
❚ What job do you
want to have in 10
years?

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QUICK: REVIEW
CHAPTER 9

❙ ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ON A

SHEET OF PAPER.
❘ 1. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE DID IN
CLASS TODAY _______.
❘ 2. I STILL HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT___.
❘ 3. THE BEST THING ABOUT CLASS TODAY
WAS _______________.
❘ 4. DON’T DO ____________ ANYMORE.
• TURN THEM IN, PLEASE. NO NAMES. WE’LL TALK
NEXT CLASS SESSION

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PREVIEW: CHAPTER 10

❚ Ask 3 people you know:

❙ Are you performing well at work?
❘ How do you know?
❙ Does your boss perform his/her job well?
❘ Does your boss know your opinion?

❚ Write up their responses for 1 extra point on your final grade.

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Exhibit 9-1: Internal and External Events and Career Stages

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Exhibit 9-2: Career Stages

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Exhibit 9-3: Holland’s General Occupational Themes

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Exhibit 9-4: Structure of Holland’s Themes

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Exhibit 9-5: Characteristics Frequently Associated with
Myers-Briggs Types

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Exhibit 9-6: Steps in Managing Your Career

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