useful information on running your career like an entrepreur.

1. Career Management

3. Create a career “Mindset” Image of your Career i.e. sailboat Controlling your destiny Directing a course Manage your career like an entrepreneur Is what your selling in demand? Who is interested? Who is the competition What do you do in an economic downturn? Notion of Lifelong Learning Make learning a job requirement Add value to the workplace Be a “STAR”

4. Self-assessmentwww.assessment.com Self Assessment is a process by which you learn more about yourself—what you like, what you don’t like, and how you tend to react to certain situations i.e. Strengths

5. Benefit of Self Assessment Self awareness about work styles and strengths Clarify career direction Experience tools and methods in preparation for using them with others Develop thinking and clarify values about the responsibility of the organization in the development of employees

6. Self AssessmentTwo Types Self-Directed-tools designed to use and review results without a licensed or trained professional to interpret the data Tools Requiring Interpretive Assistance-tool in which results will have to be discussed with a person licensed or trained in this particular tool

7. What is a Career Plan? Process of establishing short or long-term career goals and objectives and defining specific steps to achieve them.

9. Seminars

10. Joining a professional association

11. Networking

13. Specialized Training

14. Continuing Educationwww.specializedtraining.com

15. Personal Plan of Action Specific Concrete Time-Based Use the Personal Action Plan Handout

16. Be A “STAR” Go beyond job description Plug into “guru” networks Organizational “savvy”

17. Figler’s Matrix

18. Career Development using Appreciative Inquiry

19. Cycle of success