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Strategic Career Management Guide: Enhancing Job Search and Networking Skills

Discover effective career management strategies for job search, networking, and professional development plans. Learn essential tools to assess opportunities, maximize your search, and set clear goals aligned with your career path. Obtain tips on negotiating, interviewing, on-boarding, and continual progress assessment.

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Strategic Career Management Guide: Enhancing Job Search and Networking Skills

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  1. Playing Poker at the Craps Table: Job Searching and Networking

  2. Ground Rules: • I am aware you had a lot of GREAT options during this time slot! • Interrupt me! Ask that question. • Tweeting, texting, and Facebook! • Before we begin…what did you think this was about?!

  3. Career Management: Learning Objectives: • Restructuring and creating an exciting career path • Influencing factors in a well-rounded search • Professional development plans

  4. What we will cover:-Assessing your search-Maximizing opportunities-Doing due diligence-Development plans-Setting the stage (on boarding)

  5. Why Do Searches Fail? Skill Your skills = Actuality? Motivation Your experience The World Fit Is this job too small? Is this job too big?

  6. Know What You’re Looking For Reflect Research

  7. Role of the Seeker The skills/experiences desired for this position - do you meet these requirements? Your skills/experiences division/institutional goals - do they mesh? How is opportunity knocking? - a light tap or a resounding bang

  8. Skills and obtaining them “The” Position Skills You Experience

  9. Market yourself Your brand as a candidate is as important as a consumer brand.

  10. The Search Process Time to Go Now

  11. The Search Process Doesn’t have to be Linear but, must be logical

  12. The Craps Table • Learning to be nimble, in some ways alone. • What is the most important thing you have learned in your lifetime that has prepared you for your next step, and what is left to learn? • How would those persons who have worked with you describe your best skills and attributes? • Please describe the most successful outcome of your work. • Where are headed in the next three to five years, and how is that aligned with your goals. • How will you learn to assess your progress continually?

  13. Due Diligence Due diligence is about understanding and mitigating risk. You assess risks from three vantage points: The Work Place The Position Personal

  14. Who is playing poker at my table? • Strengths assessment • Likes and dislikes • Ideal roles and responsibilities • Long term goals • Options • Choices • Your intuition

  15. Negotiatingthe Waters Six points for your future: Plan Start with the end in mind Clarify positives Find alternatives Transferability Resume and Cover Letter

  16. Written Material Cover Letter Resume

  17. The art of interviewing • Skype Interviews vs. Phone interviews • Never go on an interview ___________ • Tips for a well planned experience • Now what do I do?

  18. Follow Through • By saying Thank You • If another candidate has been chosen, send a thank you email to the chair of the search committee within five business days • After the hiring decision has been made, ask for feedback whenever possible AND

  19. Negotiation Tips • Be prepared • Never, ever, ever negotiate without an offer • Ask questions about expectations of success—yours and the department’s-will you be rewarded for this? • Answer questions honestly • Convey your enthusiasm in an honest way • Fit/Match

  20. Key Aspects of an Effective On-Boarding Plan • Assess • Engage • Strategize • Right people right roles • W, for the win • Manage communication relentlessly

  21. On-Boarding Works

  22. Key aspects of an on-boarding/developmental plans: • Assess the new culture • Engage in the new culture • Get a strategy together around the burning imperative/stealth mandates • Get to know all the people quickly • Invest in some early wins • Manage communication relentlessly

  23. Thoughts to Ponder • Who do we tend to hire? • Learning to hire beyond our likes and dislikes • Collective wisdom • References, references, references! • Your network

  24. Developmental plans: • Benevolently speak the truth even if your voice quivers • Help by setting a path with achievable outcomes • Evaluate annually, no matter what! • Work harder than everyone around you!

  25. A Soapbox: • Learn to use data as a rubric for decisions • You are only as good as the humans around you, surround yourself with greatness • Stretch yourself to seek the truth from those around you, even when it hurts • Work hard, harder than people around you • Benchmark • Learn to see the tide changing • Relish in the opportunity to serve!

  26. Contact Jennifer N. Hiatt Executive Director, Residence Life and University Housing University of Arizona hiatt@life.arizona.edu 520-621-6100 www.arizona.edu/life

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