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Navigating Your Career Path: Essential Skills and Strategies for Success

Explore effective career development strategies with the "Where Do I Go From Here?" guide from June Kay, a Careers Development Consultant. This resource emphasizes the importance of transferable skills, self-awareness, and effective communication. Engage in individual skills evaluations, discover your corporate culture fit, and understand what employers truly seek from candidates. It covers critical aspects such as career motivation, networking, and decision-making, ensuring you are well-prepared for your professional journey. Find valuable insights to enhance your employability and fulfill your aspirations.

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Navigating Your Career Path: Essential Skills and Strategies for Success

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  1. Where Do I Go From Here? June Kay Careers Development Consultant Careers Advisory Service 49 New Elvet www.durham.ac.uk/careers-advice/

  2. Content • Transferable skills • Individual Skills Evaluation • Temperament • Career Motivation Exercise • Corporate Culture • What Next?

  3. Willingness to learn Commitment Reliability Self-motivation Team work Communication skills (oral) Co-operation Communication skills (written) Drive / energy Self-management Desire to achieve Problem-solving University of Central England What Skills do Employers Want?

  4. Complete Graduate Requires…. • Self-awareness • Self-promotion • Exploring opportunities • Action planning • Networking • Decision Making • Negotiating • Political awareness • Coping with uncertainty • Development focus • Transferable skills • Self-confidence Association of Graduate Recruiters

  5. Transferable skills gained from PhD research • lateral and creative thinking • adaptable / flexible approach to work and research • ability to absorb, analyse and interpret detailed data and information • advanced computer literacy • able to challenge premises, question procedures, interpret meaning, offer alternatives • capacity to access information from a wide range of resources and sources • self discipline and motivation when working in isolation

  6. Transferable skills gained from PhD research • perseverance – able to overcome difficulties • priority setting – time management • report writing • oral communication when undertaking presentations, lectures and delivering papers at conferences • team working / collaboration – undertaking research with academic colleagues on similar areas of interest • others?

  7. Your Individual Skills Audit

  8. Roles...of your ideal job • Managing • Communicating • Innovating • Promoting • Developing • Organising • Producing • Inspecting • Maintaining Advising

  9. Temperament

  10. Personality • Myers-Brigg Type Indicator • My Potential • Type Dynamics Workshop

  11. Basic Job Satisfaction Salary Job Security Working Conditions Supervision Policy & administration Interpersonal relations Fuller Job Satisfaction Sense of achievement Recognition Responsibility Nature of work & fit to aspirations Personal growth & achievement Hertzberg (Oxford Uni) Career Motivation

  12. Values • Autonomy • Altruism • Security • Leadership • Variety • Salary • Advancement • Intellectual challenge • Collaboration

  13. Some specific factors for PGRs • Ideal V Realistic • Security V Satisfaction • Progression V Intellectual Challenge • Control V Variety • Risks V Benefits Loughborough

  14. Corporate Culture • Style of Management • Company Values • Norms & Expectations • Performance Measurement Methods • Family-friendly Policies

  15. Organisation • Voluntary / Not-for-profit • Community Based • Public sector • Commercial • Industrial • Manufacturing • Service • Multinational

  16. Potential Advantages Early responsibility Chance to make significant impact Positive role models Forced to become self-reliant Growth in new job opportunities Risks Lack of structured support & training Different kind of career progression Potential insecurity Low public image Fewer potential colleagues for socialising Size Does Matter……Small

  17. Potential Advantages Structured training & development Clearer career progression Ready made support networks Competitive salary Potentially higher level of security High public awareness & credibility Risks Small cog in large wheel Lower levels of overall influence & impact on business Less immediate task variety Potential to get stuck in a rut More impersonal Higher chances of being underemployed Size Does Matter……Large

  18. Environment

  19. What Now????? • Prospects Planner • www.prospects.ac.uk • My Potential • Guidance Interview • Career Folders • Alumni Contacts • Careers Fair • Vacancy search & application

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