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Developing your Career Objective
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Why develop a career objective?
Considering what your career objective is, and developinga strategy to achieve it, is an essential tool for when youenter the job market.
It means you can :
• Know where you are headingo be efficient in your job seeking and to know how to target – which
industry, what size company, what type of job, etc ?
• convince a recruiter o know how to talk about your motivation, your competences –
through your CV and cover letter and in an interview
• ensure that your profile corresponds to the needsof the job market
o your objective needs to be realistic.
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Doing a self-assessment
Why do a self-assessment?
To know yourself better …… by answering the following questions :• What do I know ? (knowledge – theoretical or practical )• What can I do ? (know how )• Who am I? ( personality, character, personal traits)• What do I want ? (motivation, values …)
To develop your career objectiveDefine :
o what you want to do in terms of using your competences, in
which type of job position and work environmenth t d t h ( h i t f
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Some tips for doing your self-assessment
• Don’t just make an ‘inventory’ of your professional past, make
it more like an investigation. Why did you make the choices youmade? What was your objective at the time? How did it benefit you?What did you learn from it? What aspects did you not appreciate?
• Think about your future: doing your self assessment is notsimply a question of listing what you know and your past professionalexperience. You need to explore what potential these things give you,and how they can be oriented towards the future.
• List your competences – you need to become aware of whatyou can do, what you have done in the past. You may findcompetences that you have forgotten about or which seem so evidentthat you don’t even think about them.
• Give meaning to your ‘journey’: doing a self assessment is
also a way to think about what direction you are going in, starting fromwhere you have come from. The objective is to find coherencebetween your education and training, and your experience in such away that potential recruiters can see a ‘through line’ when readingyour CV.
• Think hard abo t hat o r reso rces are as said before
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My knowledge
1°: Identify and list all the subjects that you consider you know a lot about, for example what were the subjects you studied in your courses. Consider everythingyou know, or think you know, and never mind for the moment what your level is.
The theoretical knowledge that you have is principally of two kinds:
• Knowledge that you have acquired through a discipline, science or techniques that you use or which are operational (for example : a foreignlanguage, statistics, law, etc)
• Knowledge acquired through your contacts and professional, cultural andsocial environments which allow you to understand how they function, howthey are influenced, their needs, etc. This knowledge may come from:
o particular contexts (the world of research, or finance for
example)
o industrial sectors (such as the textile industry, health, food,
automobile, etc)
o th ( t ff i i i li t
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Subject A B C
English x
Business law x
Continue to list your subject areas and evaluate your level
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My competences
Identify and list your competences – all the skills which you rely on, whether in
personal contexts or not (studies, leisure pursuits, community activities, etc).Pour décrire ces savoir faire, privilégiez les verbes d'action (vous pouvez pour celavous aider de l’Annexe 2 : Les verbes d’action). Use action verbs when listing your competences ; these show what ACTIONS you KNOW how to DO.
Date and length of experience
Context and nature of activity
Competence acquired
2004 -1 month –summer job
supermarket : cashier Handled moneytransactions accuratelyDealt with customers in abusy environment
2005 – 6 months –work experience
Accounting assistant in anAccounting Cabinet
Undertook dailybookkeeping activitiesFiled client reportsAssisted charteredaccountants to produceend of year reports
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My Personal Qualities
Fill in the grid below identifying your competence levels basing your opinion on
how you gauge yourself and how you think people who know you, and haveworked with you, would gauge you. If you like, ask people you know to fill in ablank copy of the grid, and then compare their evaluation with your own.
TO KNOW Value -- - + ++ Target
Analytical skills ++ ++
Problem solving skills + ++
Identification of variables and constraintsIdentification of information sourcesInformation managementCreate solutions and prioritize them
TO KNOW HOW TO BE Value -- - + ++ Target
Client orientation ++ ++
Master and develop qualitySatisfy customers (internal and external)
Euromed orientation ++ ++
Stop ethnocentric thinkingMake use of European and Mediterranean diversityUse diversity as a constructive principleLearn about diversity (cultural, religious)
Euro-Mediterranean networking
R t f th h b i + ++
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Creativity and innovation + ++
Be open for and apply changeDare to innovateEmbrace complexity and variety (don't limit)Be a continuous "learner"Allow and support others to learn continuously
Personal mission ++ ++
TO KNOW HOW TO DO Value -- - + ++ Target
Project management skills ++ ++
Scenario buildingIdentification of multidimensional solution spacesRisk managementStructuring and controlling
Vision development skills ++ ++
Understanding the economic contextAnticipate competitive evolutionImagine and create innovative actionsProduce coherence
Managing performance ++ ++
Managing indicatorsTranslate ideas in actions that create value
Information - and IS management
Decision making skills + ++
OperationalizeInstall a management information systemAnticipate, correct and analyse
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Phase 2 : Building my own Career Objective
In the following pages, you will find useful questions to ask yourself in order tobuild your own career objective:
Step 1:Taking into account your present and/or past professional experiences, identifywhat you like or do not like.
Step 2 :What would your dream job be?
Step 3 :What is your personal favourite style of life? What are your priorities?More precisely, what are your values and what is important for you inyour job ?
Step 4 :
Whi h ti h ld k lf?
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Fill in the table below detailing, for each item, what you liked, what you did not like,and why.
You can complete one table per professional experience.
FOR EXAMPLE :
Items What I like What I do not likeWhat I would likefor tomorrow
Product / service
Insecticides for industrialagriculture : product unknown
Large public product
Actions(get some help fromyour final outcome)
Selling : Permanentrelationship with customers
More teamwork in thecompany
Have to convince :rewarding
Convincing
Results(are they concrete, canthey be measured, areyou involved in their evaluation, or is theteam involved ? …)
Too many variables Get a bigger fixed salary
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Try your own now !
Items What I like What I do not like What I would like for tomorrow
Product / service
Actions(get some help fromyour final outcome)
Results(are they concrete, canthey be measured, areyou involved in their evaluation, or is theteam involved ? …)
R l ti hi ith
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Step 2 : My dream job
The job of my dream …
As a child every one of us dreamt of crazy and fantastic jobs, more or lessaccessible. We thought about who we wanted to be instead of focusing on whatwas really possible.Let’s go back to these dreams, without thinking of whether this is possible or not.
1°) As a child, I pictured myself as a…..?
2°) Later, as a teenager ?
3°) And now, which ones are still my dreams?
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Step 3 : My personal favourite life style and my priorities.
My personal favourite life style
Questioning yourself on personal commitments can be useful. Use the Three PRule to identify what motivates you:
1°) Plenty of Money (or “Plenty of Pennies” or “Pockets Full”)Which jobs do you think would earn more money? Which ones are attractive for this reason only?
2°) Power In some jobs, you can get a dominant position, influence and authority over other people. Which ones are attractive for this reason only?
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My priorities
For each one of the four questions below, write whatever comes to your mind,without stopping to write, even the silliest things. You have to write, write, write …for three minutes. Without stopping.After three minutes, review it all taking some distance, and underline the threewords or the three phrases that really make sense.
Question 1 :Which are my values in life ? What is so important for me that this is what counts
the most in how I judge myself and others, on everything I do, on my life style ?
Question 2 :f f f
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Question 3 :Imagine a full day, a day you feel was useful, efficient, very satisfying and intense.What would it be like ?
Question 4 :
What are characteristics of a dream job ?
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Step 4 : Which questions should I ask myself ?
In order to define your career objective, you need to determine the following:
Selected regions / countries Sectors I would like to work in on in the short and mid term Company size Companies I am interested in
Try to identify references and websites that would help you to do your research for
these factors.
Questions References Websites
Selected regions /
countries
Sectors of activities
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BETWEEN THE IDEAL AND THE REALISTIC
6th step: Is my career objective in line with market trends?
This step is important, especially in order to answer the following questions:Is the career objective realistic? How can I get to know companies that might beinterested in my competencies? Do they have recruitment opportunities? Which of my competences and knowledge would be relevant to which market sectors?
It is necessary to validate your objective (which is effectively what you are “selling”on the job market) by doing a « market study ».This means: identifying your potential employers. understanding their needs, finding out about their recruitment process andcriteria
How to do it? Ask yourself about your desired job position with the following points: Who is recruiting ? What needs do they have, in which jobs? Based on which criteria, which profile, which competences?
Thi k t t d b d l d b
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Note that, whatever the company might be, you will find a job offer either bymatching the company’s needs (job position) or matching the recruitment criteria(profile). This is the basis of the « what you are selling ».
3 – Segment the companies:
There are different groups of companies with specific expectations - sector of activity, size of the company, etc. You can also divide companies according toproduction or distribution modes, client base, turnover…).Make a group typology.Mention their characteristics (activities, size or other criteria)
Note that for each group, they have their own needs (functions to be developed,missions), and the specific recruitment criteria (experience, academicrequirements, age, knowledge, aptitude…)
These segmentations will also help you work on your argument for each group.
4 – Evaluating the market volume:
Do you have an idea of the number of companies that represents each one of thegroups identified?For the functions which are close or similar to the ones that interest you, do youhave an idea of the number of job offers published in the media?In order to have an idea of the market volume, we have to multiply the number of announcements by 2.5.
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Main Activities of the Job Position
Profile
SEGMENTATION
CompanyTypology
Specific Needs Specific Recruitment Criteria
Volume Target : I take:
I may probably take:
I do not take:
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7th step: My career objective
Who am I?
What do I know how to do?
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My ideal career solution (project A):
My backup plan 1 (project B):
( C)
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APPENDIX
Appendix 1: Areas of knowledge
Appendix 2: Action Verbs
Appendix 3: From planning to putting into practice: between the ideal and therealistic
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Appendix 1: Areas of Knowledge
Economy - Management -Finance - Accounting -Commercial
EconomyCorporate managementGeneral ManagementFinanceAccounting for SuppliersAccounting for Clients
Auditing – Management ControlHRCommercial-marketingInternational CommercePublic ServicesBank-InsuranceTourism –Hospitality –Transport
Languages - Art - Publishing
LanguagesLanguages applied to business andcommerceLanguages applied to translationDocumentationSecretarial - officeArts
Printing
Human Sciences -Communication
Philosophy, sociologyWork PsychologyClinical PsychologyHistoryGeographyUrbanismEducation Sciences
Communication, journalismCinematography andaudiovisualPublicity
Law – Political Sciences
LawPrivate LawBusiness LawPublic LawInternational LawWorking LawLegal StudiesPolitical sciences and
Medical - paramedical -
Sociocultural
MedicineOdontologyPharmacyVeterinaryParamedicalSanitarySocial
Electronics - Automatic -
Informatic -Telecommunications
Exploration SystemsNetworksMaterialsData basesInternetSoftware
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Appendix 2 : Action verbs
DECIDE
StopChoose
ConcludeDetermineEliminate
FixJudge
ArrangeSolve
FORM
AnimateTeach/Learn
DriveDevelopEducate
TrainInstruct
Transform
ADVISE
HelpClarify
UnderstandDiagnose
ListenGuideInciteOrient
ProposeRecommend
Anticipate
BELIEVE
AdaptImproveConceiveConstructDiscover ElaborateImagineInnovateInventRenew
TransformFind
COMMUNICATE
DialogueDiscussChangeListen
ExpressInform
InterviewNegotiate
ShareWriteInform
Transmit
PRODUCT
ApplyElaborateExecute
DoRealiseFollow
Use
ORGANISE
AdjustAnticipateArrange
CoordinateDistributeEstablishExecute
PlanPrepare
ProgrammeStructure
CONDUCT
AnimateCommandConduct
TrustDefine
DelegateGovernGuide
ImpulseInspireInstituteManager
NEGOTIATE
SellBuy
Arbitrate
IncreaseCommercialise
ConcludeConsult
ConvincePersuade
PlaceProposeSelect
CONTROL
AppreciateQuestionEvaluate
ExamExperiment
MeasureProve
SuperviseMonitor
TestValidateVerify
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