Look Ahead & Look AroundLook Ahead & Look Around
Leveraging Past Leveraging Past
Experience & Positioning Experience & Positioning
for the Futurefor the Future
Changing Notions of Career
� Linear�
� to….�
� All terrain�
UWA Post Grad Career Terrains
Statistical Consultant – Aust Bureau of Statistics
Management Consultant – Accenture
Analyst – Dept of Defence
Policy Officer – Aust Vice Chancellors Committee
Patent Examiner – IP Australia
Plant Records Manager – Singapore Botanic Gardens
MSc Archaeology
PhD Engineering
PhD Zoology
PhD History
PhD Biochemistry
PhD Agriculture
Employability Skills
� The value of knowledge depends on capacity to use it:
� Personal attributes � non-skill based behaviours & attitudes
� Skills � the learned capacity of individuals
� Elements � facets of skills, the mix, priority and sophistication of which will vary from employer to employer
Top 10 Graduate Selection Criteria
SOURCE : Graduate Careers Australia 2006
Intelligent Career
� Organisational competencies
� Culture
� Know-how
� Networks
� Individual competencies
� Knowing why
� Knowing how
� Knowing whom
Personal Career Terrain
� Where have you been so far?
� valleys explored
� peaks scaled
� What are your current horizons?
� What ‘footprint’ do you want to leave?
Career Competencies
� Elements for managing life, learning & work
� Personal management
� Learning & work exploration
� Career building
Maintain a Portfolio
� Records and products of your learning, life and work
� Career and professional development overview
� Skills record
� Artefacts & examples
� Resume
� Official records
� Focused on your skills, experiences & accomplishments
Career Management
� Active engagement in work-related activities
� Enrichment
� Change
� Transition
� Progression
� Growth
� Balance
� Is a process, not an event!
Useful Career Resources
www.mindtools.com
www.seek.com.au
www.ciqonline.com.au
www.careers.uwa.edu.au
Become the director as well as actor in your own life / career drama
Accumulate relevant competencies and learn how to represent them on
stage