• Consistent in your career path • Specialized in one area, generalized in one field with the help of the corporation • Advancement • Responsibility lies on you
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Questions and Answers
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The Expert • Little interest in general management responsibilities The Traditionalist • Striving for the executive suite • Political, trying to identify the career steps to the senior management • Loving power and influence to the organization • Motivation:well-defined roles and responsibilities The Planful Entrepreneur The Portfolio Manager • Pursue portfolio careers, including a variety of work experience and skills: in sales, management, marketing, accounting • Motivation: personal growth, creativity and independence • MBA is designed for portfolio career • Working in an organization but always thinking of using the skills learned to start up own business • Have very clear goals in mind to do something on their own The Spontaneous Entrepreneur • Passionate about an idea • Willing to sacrifice the comforts that other models offer
• Life span of knowledge is getting shorter and shorter
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6 Job v.s. Career
Pay*rate of return = ? ?
Pay*rate of return *growth =
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7.1 Some tips on career path management
Sources: Hewitt Associates
Obedience to superior authority Low
Job/role
Moral agents
Medium Skill and reputation
2.2 Balance of career
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2.3 5 Career Models by Jim Biolos
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5 Does experience count?
• Experience v.s. Competency
• General experience is being replaced by specialized experience • Specialized experience is being replaced by competency
• Know your orientation
• Aim to be 100% • Write a ‘in-dated’ resume
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7.2 Some tips on career path management（2）
• Ask regularly for feedback • What else besides money? • Don’t be good at your job (rather, be good at the skills required for the job) • Find a right boss • If you don’t know what you want, copy someone else first (model, coach, mentor) • Network to find the ‘Best-in-class’ • Watch out for cliffs and plateaus • Incorporate YOU, INC. • Sell your next assignment (ie. realistically find an organizational need and service it!)
• Math Skills Can Help • Accounting Skills Valuable
• Teamwork Crucial
• Scientists and Lawyers Wanted
• Contacts are Everything
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7.4 profile
Others
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7.5 Always think market
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7.3 Career in investment banks
• Hard Work Expected and Respected • Tough to Break In • Analyst Jobs Are the Best Entry Point
• Communication and Completion Abilities Key
• Hard skills v.s. soft skills
• Does experience count
• Some tips on career path management
• Q&A
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1 Different career stages may have different motivational needs
• Focused on skills and expertise development
• Motivation: new skills to do things
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3.1 Profit margin industry(a gut feeling)
•Consumer goods •Manufacturing •Professional services • Investment banks
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Contents
• Career motivators at different stages • Career analysis • Industry analysis
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4 Hard skills v.s. soft skills which is more important?
1. Hard skills (how to’s) – Skills acquired in through formal education – E.g. math, foreign language, physics, finance, accounting, etc – The technical knowledge needed to do a job. They are the cumulative product of experience, training, and education. – E.g. operate a computer, know Excel, know Word 2. Soft skills – Skills acquired in your early childhood and learned by experience – E.g. interpersonal skills, communication skills, creativity, thinking ability, etc. – A combined product of a persons aptitude and values – E.g. being sensitive to the needs of others, being courteous, being honest, being reliable, etc…
• Consulting firms • Accounting firms • Law firms +25% +25% +25% +25%
+5% +10%
• Hospital
• University
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•IT/High-Tech •Entrepreneur •Government
+20% ? N/A
Skill and knowledge Lawyers, Accountants, Bankers
Risk for reward Company founders Self-interest High Margin on value added
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Key value Risks/oppor tunities Basis for pay
The traditionalist The expert The portfolio manager