how to navigate your career
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The Four Questions You Need to Answer to Find Your Way
Jeff Saperstein
HOW TO
Navigate Your Career
My Mission: Help Others Be Successful Through Business, Education and Professional Relationships
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HELLO!
{ }Who are you?
Values to guide you1
Who influences, mentors, and inspires you?
Randy Pausch: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Vision Matters
Autonomy Have agency to direct your life
Mastery What do you know and can do
Purpose Why are you doing? Is it meaningful?
Progress Do you see results?
Sharing Build your peer and mentor network
How Important are these Values to You?
VISUALget
Goal: Self-Efficacy to Make it Happen for You
{ }Emergent Work World:
What should you know?2
The emergence of real, useful artificial intelligence (AI) and the connection of most of the people on the planet via a
common digital network.
Most significant future transformations in work
The Second Machine Age, Brynjolfsson and McAfee
Don’t Confuse… Professional Development
The Predictability of Rules and Individual Progress in a University
No one will take care of you!
The Turbulence of the Workplace
“Our CEO told us we were like One Big Family….I did not know he meant
the Sopranos”
———Anonymous High level HR Executive after massive layoffs in Fortune 500 Company due to
Missed Target of Quarterly Profits
Artificial intelligence will transform most jobs and transform the
expertise and skills sets that were success factors
Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence
To Navigate Your Career you will need continuous: learning
systems and skills, building your own professional brand, expanding
network of professional relationships
Cloud, Analytics, and Social Networking, supported by Artificial Intelligence, will mean that almost half the jobs today will be radically
transformed within the next five years.
Service: Mass Customization based on Personal Co-Creation will drive
the next innovation wave
Google Driverless Car
Prepare yourself for the coming turbulent transformation in the
workplace so you can navigate a career to suit your purposes and not
just be tossed about rudderless. Be prepared, but do not rely on a
rigid plan
Make a Job or Take A Job…Do both in your career.
{ }Four Questions:
How to begin to answer3
Four Questions to Help Navigate Your Career
• Where do I fit?• How do I add value?
• Can I learn to compete to collaborate so I am a valued team member?
• Can I learn to both give and receive signals to be an intelligent
communicator and listener?
Where do I fit?Best to build experience in broadening your comfort zone but start where you are now:
• Field/industry• Regions• Sectors• Cultures• Organizational structures• Workplace styles
• What discipline do I master: Marketing, Finance, Law, etc.
• Do I understand other disciplines so I can work on multi-disciplinary teams and with technology so I can contribute to dispersed work teams
• What do I know how to do: (create an App, work with platforms and Tools such as Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Google Analytics, IBM Blue Mix, etc.)
How do I Add Value?
Become a valued team member
• Lead project groups• Follow directions• Be able to pivot and be flexible• Know Account Management • Know Project Management
Can I learn to compete to collaborate?
• Being able to read and send (signal) non-verbal and verbal communication is life-long learning
• The one constant skill in demand in the turbulent, transforming workplace
• Good communication skills can be learned• Monitor these attitudinal markers for personal/professional
growth as you navigate your career• Curiosity, • Genuine interest in people• Desire to serve and help others
Can I be an intelligent 2-way communicator?
Check out this presentation to students at San Francisco State
University on Navigating Your Career
For more….
Careerbuilder.comLinkedIn.careers.comMag Joy: Why 30 is not the new 20 (Ted TalkDan Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation (Ted Talk)Erik Brynjolfsson: Race With the Machines (Ted Talk)Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action (Ted Talk)Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In…Now What? (Ted Talk)Jeff Saperstein: Vision Matters, Defining Identity
Free Resources
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