1. Lesson
1:
Preparing
for
Transi.on
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2. Course
Welcome
and
Overview
During
the
course
of
your
career,
you
will
likely
face
transi8on
situa8ons
in
which
you
examine
your
skills
and
career.
Transi8ons
can
occur
due
to
outside
circumstances,
such
as
a
restructuring,
or
you
can
generate
them
through
a
change
in
career
or
series.
Whatever
the
reason
for
the
change,
a
transi8on
can
provide
you
with
the
opportunity
to
examine
your
past
and
present
career
path
and
your
future
career
opportuni8es.
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3. Course
Purpose
A
major
premise
of
this
course
is
that
job
security
does
not
exist.
Rela8ve
job
security
is
inherent
in
your
employability,
con8ngent
on
maintaining
your
current
skills
and
awareness
of
trends
in
the
industry
in
which
you
work.
In
the
past,
federal
employment
was
considered
by
many
people
as
secure,
well-‐
benefiIed
employment.
However,
budget
cuts,
changes
in
poli8cal
priori8es,
downsizing,
and
other
challenges
have
changed
the
federal
employment
landscape.
Regardless
of
the
genesis
of
change,
as
a
federal
employee,
you
are
wise
to
maintain
your
skills
in
the
face
of
escala8ng
technological
advances,
public
pressure,
and
other
reali8es.
• You
must
step
out
of
your
comfort
zone
in
order
to
transi8on
effec8vely.
• To
transi8on
effec8vely,
you
must
honestly
and
realis8cally
appraise
yourself
by
evalua8ng
your
skills
in
the
context
of
your
challenges.
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4. Course
Objec8ves
At
the
conclusion
of
this
course,
you
should
be
able
to:
Iden8fy
the
stages
of
transi8on.
Iden8fy
your
skills,
strengths,
and
accomplishments.
Create
a
workplace
narra8ve
to
market
your
skills.
Delve
into
a
variety
of
social
media
techniques
and
personal
marke8ng
strategies.
• Comfortably
promote
yourself
within
their
chosen
occupa8on.
•
•
•
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5. Career
Transi.on
Survey
As
we
begin
considering
how
to
manage
career
transi8on
moving
forward,
it
will
be
helpful
to
consider
a
previous
career
transi8on
experience.
The
goal
of
this
exercise
is
to
provide
you
with
informa8on
about
yourself;
to
show
you
that
you
have
already
experienced
a
variety
of
changes
in
your
lives
and
careers.
Change
need
not
be
feared.
Embrace
it.
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6. Career
Transi.on
Survey
As
you
contemplate
your
previous
career
transi8on
experience,
consider
the
following
ques8ons:
•
•
•
•
•
•
How
long
were
you
in
your
previous
job?
What
prompted
the
transi8on?
Did
the
transi8on
require
you
to
relocate?
Was
the
transi8on
from
one
sector
to
another
(i.e.,
private
to
federal)?
How
long
did
the
transi8on
take?
What
lessons
did
you
learn
from
the
experience?
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7. Career
Transi.on
Defined
“Career
transi9on
is
the
shi:ing
of
employment
to
a
new
job,
employer,
or
field.
Because
this
shi:
o:en
involves
moving
to
an
unknown
situa9on,
career
transi9on
can
be
accompanied
by
important
changes
about
how
you
view
yourself
and
others.”
The
Change
Grid
People
who
experience
change
caused
by
an
external
event
go
through
various
recognizable
stages.
The
four
stages
of
change
(Pederson,
V.,
2005)
shown
in
the
diagram
demonstrate
how
you
may
move
through
each
stage
of
your
transi8on.
Most
people
who
experience
change
go
through
various
recognizable
stages.
During
this
period,
you
may
have
mixed
emo8ons
about
this
transi8on.
At
8mes,
you
may
simultaneously
feel
fear
about
the
upcoming
changes
and
excitement
about
future
possibili8es.
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8. The
Change
Grid
Past
Future
1
Denial
Can’t
happen
here
Numbness
Minimizing
2
Commitment
Where
I’m
headed
Focus
Vision
Balance
3
Resistance
Anger
Loss/Hurt
Blaming
Doub8ng
Your
Ability
4
Explora.on
Chaos
Seeing
possibili8es
Unfocused
work
Energy
Exploring
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9. Exercise:
Place
Yourself
in
the
Change
Grid
In
which
stage
do
you
place
yourself?
Please
iden8fy
what
stage
of
change
you
think
you
may
be
experiencing
presently.
Are
there
others
in
your
workplace
whose
situa8ons
have
changed?
What
effect,
if
any,
has
their
transi8on
had
on
you?
Although
you
may
not
be
facing
a
reduc8on
in
force
(RIF)
or
downsizing,
you
may
s8ll
be
experience
the
effects
of
change.
Any
altera8on
to
a
usual
paIern
or
sense
of
normalcy
(such
as
a
new
supervisor)
can
cause
a
transi8on.
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10. Career
Transi.on
Prepara.on
A
transi8on
period
presents
an
opportunity
for
self-‐evalua8on
and
redirec8on;
a
8me
to
examine
the
past
while
planning
for
the
future.
This
assessment
is
vital
regardless
of
which
career
op8on
you
choose
to
pursue.
Before
you
can
make
plans
for
your
career,
you
must
first
look
at
the
“Big
Picture"
in
which
you
make
decisions.
You
may
find
that
this
transi8on
8me
provides
you
a
chance
to
re-‐evaluate
your
situa8on.
Some
people
report
that
an
unwelcome
(presumed)
change
actually
provides
them
with
a
(previously)
hidden
opportunity.
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11. Career
Transi.on
Prepara.on
Examine
these
factors
while
preparing
for
change:
• Values
• Goals
• Personality
Type
and
Interests
• Personal
Needs
Evaluate
each
factor
so
that
when
you
consider
your
next
career
move,
you
will
have
a
clear
picture
of
who
you
are,
what
is
important
to
you,
where
you
have
been,
and
where
you
want
to
go.
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12. Values
Values
are
basics.
Your
values
determine
your
place
in
the
world
and
your
picture
of
the
world
around
you.
You
are
not
oken
required
to
assess
what
is
most
important,
but
at
a
8me
of
transi8on,
it
is
valuable
to
do
so.
It
is
important
to
periodically
re-‐assess
your
values
because
your
values
change
over
8me
and
circumstance.
For
example,
at
some
point
in
your
life,
you
may
decide
that
career
success
is
important,
but
career
success
might
diminish
in
importance
at
some
other
life
stage.
What
is
important
to
you?
If
you
know
the
answer(s)
to
this/these
ques8on(s),
your
are
beIer
prepared
for
change.
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13. Why
Do
You
Work
The
ini8al
response
to
the
ques8on,
“Why
do
you
work?”,
is
oken
“for
a
paycheck.”
However,
as
you
consider
it
more
deeply,
you
may
find
that
the
reason(s)
you
work
is/are
not
as
obvious
as
you
ini8ally
thought.
Research
shows
that,
all
things
being
equal,
money
is
not
a
primary
mo8vator.
If
you
have
enough
money
to
take
care
of
your
basic
needs,
more
money
will
not
mo8vate
you.
Some
reasons
for
why
people
work
include
“to
help
people,”
“to
achieve,”
“because
I
have
something
to
offer
the
world,”
and/or
“to
create
something.”
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14. Worksheet:
Priori.zing
Work
Related
Value
To
complete
this
exercise
you
will
want
to
print
the
Lesson
1
Worksheet:
Work
Related
Values,
and
fill
it
out
as
you
go
along
.
All
worksheets
are
available
from
the
course
page
on
the
CMSVCC.com
website.
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15. Exercise:
Priori.zing
Work
Related
Value
Rank
the
values
below
with
the
following
weights:
1. Most
Important
2. Important
3. Somewhat
Important
4. Not
Important
Rank
again
the
above
“short-‐listed”
values
from
1
(most
important)
to
4
(least
important).
You
now
have
developed
a
manageable
list
of
values
which
should
reflect
what
is
most
important
to
you.
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16. Worksheet:
Personal
Needs
Personal
needs
cons8tute
a
major
considera8on
involved
in
the
transi8on
process.
So
much
of
“one’s
self”
is
defined
by
the
work
one
does.
Salary,
posi8on,
and
8tle
form
some
major
building
blocks
of
our
“self-‐
concept.”
To
complete
this
exercise
you
will
want
to
print
the
Lesson
1
Worksheet:
Personal
Needs,
and
fill
it
out
as
you
go
along
.
All
worksheets
are
available
from
the
course
page
on
the
CMSVCC.com
website.
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17. Exercise:
Personal
Needs
A
major
considera8on
involved
in
the
transi8on
process
is
personal.
So
much
of
one's
self
is
defined
by
the
work
one
does.
When
the
emphasis
of
our
daily
ac8vi8es
switches
from
career
to
other
pursuits,
the
sense
of
who
we
are
some8mes
gets
lost
in
the
shuffle.
How
much
we
make,
what
our
8tles
are,
and
what
we
do
are
only
some
of
the
building
blocks
for
our
sense
of
self.
Consider
other
building
blocks
such
as:
• Your
role
as
a
sibling,
parent,
son,
or
daughter
• Your
rela8onships
with
colleagues
and
friends
• Your
contribu8on
to
helping
others
• Your
other
roles
that
contribute
to
your
high
self-‐esteem
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18. Why
Do
You
Work
The
ini8al
response
to
the
ques8on,
“Why
do
you
work?”,
is
oken
“for
a
paycheck.”
However,
as
you
consider
it
more
deeply,
you
may
find
that
the
reason(s)
you
work
is/are
not
as
obvious
as
you
ini8ally
thought.
Research
shows
that,
all
things
being
equal,
money
is
not
a
primary
mo8vator.
If
you
have
enough
money
to
take
care
of
your
basic
needs,
more
money
will
not
mo8vate
you.
Some
reasons
for
why
people
work
include
“to
help
people,”
“to
achieve,”
“because
I
have
something
to
offer
the
world,”
and/or
“to
create
something.”
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