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Changing Your Career in Difficult Times Helping organisations bring out the best in their talent Helping individuals make positive and rewarding career choices www.pinpoint.ie Dublin City Public Libraries – Career Direction and Development Programme Prepared by John Deely BA MSc Occupational Psychologist with Pinpoint.
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Changing Your Career in Difficult Times

Oct 31, 2014

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Talk given in March 2013 at Dublin City Public Libraries as part of their public lecture series on career development. Prepared and delivered by John Deely BA MSc, Occupational Psychologist with Pinpoint (www.pinpoint.ie)
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Page 1: Changing Your Career in Difficult Times

Changing Your Career in Difficult Times

Helping organisations bring out the best in their talent

Helping individuals make positive and rewarding career choices

www.pinpoint.ie

Dublin City Public Libraries – Career Direction and Development Programme

Prepared by John Deely BA MScOccupational Psychologist with

Pinpoint.

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Where Will You Be in Five Years?

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Events that make us reflect on our career

Redundancy Pipped at an interview Significant birthdays New manager Peers moving ahead Life events Having a family The “economy” An approach about a job

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3 wheels of career success

Role / Job

Context / Environment

Managing Your

Career

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2 Clues to Talent The Art of Interviewing – Two

Clues to Talent 1) Rapid learning. Think of

projects / roles where you learned a lot in a short period, or where you were in at the deep end?

2) Sources of Satisfaction. “What gave you most satisfaction about an incident / scenario?”

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Career Clues and Strengths

Challenges Achievements Moments of satisfaction Feedback

Scenarios Learning Colleagues Managers Collaboration

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WORK HIGHLIGHT EXERCISE

Turn to the person next to you. Decide who is going first.

Listener says ‘I’m interested in hearing about a specific work situation or story where you felt positive about what you were doing at the time; something that stands out in your mind’

Talker, tell your story with no interruption – be as descriptive as you can. Provide a bit of detail.

Listener, listen and then ask questions. Use the 4 W’s (Who, What, When Where) and How? to explore and understand the event.

3 minutes each to tell your story. I will signal for you to swap roles.

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Health checks / Career Maintenance Am I enjoying my role as much as I was 6 months

ago? If yes,

Progress Satisfaction & Strengths People

If No, Explore Why? What can I do? Engaging help

Write your future CV for next 12 months. Does it fire you up?

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Be a Career Detective

Be forensic, learn from each chapter of your career

Be clear about..... your skills, your

qualities, the scenarios you like

the contexts that you enjoy

your values

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Be yourself

““People don’t change that much. Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.”

Source: "First break all the Rules, what great managers do differently" by Buckingham and Coffman.

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A principle to underpin your career management

Value your offer “Quiet: The Power of

Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking”

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Your values, your ideal context

Find the right career is as much about the right context as it is about the right activities

Right skills wrong scenario

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CAREER ANALYSIS

Career Direction, CV, Linkedin, Interviews, Informal Conversations, Professional Development, Personal Development.

MANY THINGS

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Interview Question #1

Can you highlight something from your career that has given you real satisfaction.What would you choose and why?

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Remember your stories

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Challenges Habits Wrong career choice Clarity about your

strengths Gap Challenge of Change Income flexibility Well-being / nature of

the work Internet Network

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The Process of Change

1952 Lewin, Unfreezing, Moving, Refreezing 1969 Kubler-Ross, Denial, Anger, Bargaining,

depression Acceptance 1989 Rashford & Coghlan, Denying, Dodging, Doing,

sustaining Cut to the “moving and doing” 5 years before you plan

to retire. A phase of trial and error. Doing different things. Deepening your network.

Expanding extracurricular activities. Learning.

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Habits & Rituals

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." Rob Gilbert

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Being pigeon holed

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A Personal Project

The transformative power of a personal project by

Site: www.brainpickings.org

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“To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.” Albert Camus

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Taking on new things

Talk on www.TED.com by Matt Cutts

Energy / Enthusiasm enhances one’s offer

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Overnight Success

“You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.”

Danny Kaye

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Job Search Channels / Activities Direct Application Recruiters Self-employed Contract roles Linkedin Networking

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The Reality of Networking

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

Over 50% of roles 77% of industry leaders Generosity Resilience References / Intelligence Diversity

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Networking – Building Trust Does anyone know any

good plumbers? “Go to” people Mavens, connectors and

sales people It takes time to build a

network or indeed to re-build a network.

Shared values or interests.

I wish I had…

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THE CURRENCY OF NETWORKING

“The currency of REAL networking is not greed, but generosity.”

Keith Ferrazzi

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Different Career Modes Consulting Free lance Part time Expert role Non-executive Mentoring / Training Interim Roles Web based opportunities Own Enterprise

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E.g. Older Entrepreneurs New business formation

up from 14.3% to 20.9% in 15 years in the US

55 to 65 year olds have the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity

25% of small business in the UK founded by over 50s

4 year study of start-ups 64% survival rate for start-ups by older people (vs 48% overall)

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WRITE YOUR FUTURE CV

Think about the next 12 to 18 months What would you like your future CV to look

like? Sections

Work experience Education & Training Extracurricular activities Interests

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Position yourself for Opportunities

“Chance favours the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?” Jean Cocteau.

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Summary Review your career in a

forensic way The capacity for change

is a muscle which needs to be exercised.

Your network is an ecosystem which needs to be maintained.

Transition takes time. You may need to recruit

yourself