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Making Your Job Work for You
ATEM CENTRAL REGION
2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Faye Bound
Bound Consulting Group
May 2008
www.boundconsulting.com.au
Are you are the Master
of Your Own Destiny?
What are the Key Messages to
South Australian employers?
Management Culture1) Employees’ needs essential to
success
2) Attempting to shift the blame
unacceptable
3) Adequate Investment in retaining
4) Organisation’s Image is important
Source 207 Square Holes/SA Great/AIM
Culture
 Culture is what is created from the
messages that are received about
how people are expected to behave in
your organisation.
Corporate Vision
“Why we do the things we do”
World View
Self Esteem
Self Concept
Intelligence
Personality
Upbringing
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History
Actual Performance
Choices
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Beliefs & Values
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Primary Drivers
Attitude
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Mindset
Skills Bank
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Applications
Behaviours
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Responses
Performance
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Result
Definition of Values
“ideals which give significance to our
lives expressed through our priorities…”
B. Hall
Honest Conversations
“..our work, our relationships, and in
fact, our very lives, succeed or fail
gradually, then suddenly, one
conversation at a time.”
Fierce Conversations-Susan Scott
To Leave
a Legacy
(SPIRIT)
Meaning and
Contribution
Job vs Career?
 A career is the sum total of paid and
unpaid work, learning and life roles
you undertake throughout your life.
 If you are planning a career you need
to think about the future!
Your Career
 Where do you want to be in 5 years
time?
 Where don’t you want to be?
Career Contributions
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Work experience
Community involvement
Employment
Life roles
Enterprise activities
Cultural activities
Training
Education
Interests
Sport
Volunteer work
Purpose of Career Management
 To shape and continually refine a
career that combines what you value
with what you do well
 To engender self reliance and the
integration of personal goals and
plans with the needs of the
organisation
The Real You
 What did you want to be?
The Real You
 What do you want to be
when you grow up?
 Or should it be: What
don’t I want to be?
How did we get here?
The Real You
The Ultimate Goal
 Alignment - determining what’s
important to you and matching that
as closely as possible to opportunities
in the career marketplace
 Alignment - personal & professional
life and work and play needs are
balanced and synchronised
The Real You
 After completing school, which
subjects did you continue to study or
read about?
The Real You
 If you were able to work three days a
week, what would you do with the
other four days?
The Real You
 What skills and/or characteristics
have you been complimented on by
others?
The Real You
 What do you admire in yourself?
The Real You
 How do you spend your time now?
The Real You
 What three things would you like
most to change about yourself?
Finding Your Career Path
Managing Your Career
 Earn Your Stripes
 Be Flexible
 Keep Perspective
David McClelland
Myths
 Good work ensures a future with your
employer
 The most qualified individual gets the
job
 Career success means establishing a
career direction and pursuing it for
life
Myths
 Never step back - or sideways - in
your career
 The best career opportunities are with
large organisations
 It’s best to look for a job when you
have a job
 Most people follow traditional career
paths
The Changing World of Work
Old
New
Success = Career ladder
Success = values, goals and
competencies aligned (career lattice)
Authority
Influence
Status = Position
Status = Impact
Entitlement
Marketability
Loyalty to company
Commitment to work and self
Salaries and benefits
Contracts, fees
Job security
Personal freedom/control
Identity defined by job and
organisation
Identity defined by your life and
circumstances and work you do
Bosses and managers
Customers and clients, leaders
In which Industries do Australians Work?
17 Broad Industries
Top 4:
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15% Retail (1.5 million people)
Property and Business Services (1.2M)
Health and Community Services (1 M)
Manufacturing (1M)
Source: Australian Government DEWR 2007
Where are the New Jobs?
 Over the last five years employment
has grown by 1,173,400
 Four industries have dominated:
 Construction (248,700)
 Property and Business (196,900)
 Health and Community Services
(156,600)
 Retail Trade (110,000)
Which Industries have declined?
 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (81,300)
 Manufacturing (22,400)
Where will the new jobs be?
Social Welfare &
Security
6%
Marketing &
Sales
Representatives
6%
Teaching,
Childcare,
Library
7%
Clerks,
Receptionists,
Secretaries
8%
Health, Fitness,
Hair & Beauty
10%
Projected 2011-2012
Food,
Building &
Construction Hospitality &
Tourism
6%
6%
Computing & IT
6%
Other
Occupations
10%
Accounting,
Finance &
Management
21%
Sales Assistants
& Storepersons
14%
More to Consider:
Are you learning?
If your job was open, would you get it?
Are you being milked?
Do you know what you contribute?
What would you do if your job
disappeared tomorrow?
Are you having fun yet?
Are you worried about your job?
The Individual’s Responsibilities
Individuals need to recognise that:
 We are responsible for initiation and
implementations of a career plan
 Feedback is enhanced when it is self
initiated and includes diversity of
stakeholders
Career Anchors
A Career Anchor is:
“A perceived area of competence,
combined with motives and values - not
easily given up”
Three Questions
 What are my talents, skills and
competencies?
 What are my main motives, needs,
drives and goals in life?
 What are my values, the main criteria
by which I judge what I am doing?
Types of Career Anchors
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Technical/Functional Competence
General Managerial Competence
Autonomy/Independence
Security/Stability
Entrepreneurial Creativity
Service/Dedication to a cause
Pure Challenge
Lifestyle
Career Progression
1. Horizontal: Growth in Skills/Abilities
2. Vertical:
Growth in Responsibility
3. Central:
Growth in Power/Influence
A Career Anchor helps determine the
most appropriate progression.
Career Lessons (Daniel Pink)
Lesson One:
 There is no plan-make smart choices
 Two Types:
 Instrumental
 Fundamental
Career Lessons
Lesson Two:
Think Strengths Not Weaknesses
FIND YOUR “REMARKABLE” = Passions
and Your Strengths!!!
Career Lessons
Lesson Three:
It’s not about you…..
It’s about adding value! Using your
strengths and talents to help others
Career Lessons
Lesson Four:
Persistence trumps over talent
Career Lessons
Lesson Five:
Make excellent mistakes
Career Lessons
Lesson Six:
Leave an imprint
When you get older, you may have
some questions….
 Did I make a difference?
 Did I contribute?
 Did I matter?
Problem is…
Most People get toward the end of their
lives and they don’t like the answers.
“Regret for the things we did can be
tempered by time; it is regret for the
things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
Sydney J Harris
Quote
“The greater danger for most of us lies
not in setting our aim too high and
falling short; but in setting our aim too
low, and achieving our mark.”
Michelangelo
“What are you doing to make
your job work for you?”
Who do you want to be the
Master of your destiny?
Faye Bound
Bound Consulting Group
Useful Links
www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/view/full/230
www.theinstitute.com.au
www.myfuture.edu.au
www.jobguide.dest.gov.au
www.skillsinfo.gov.au
www.connecttoyourfuture.dest.gov.au