This document discusses career management for students in the Global Leadership Executive MBA Program. It outlines how concepts of career paths and success are changing, and encourages students to view career management as its own business. It details a 5-step process for career management, including focusing one's interests, positioning oneself for employers, timing job searches effectively, having backup career plans, and staying true to oneself. The program then outlines its own career assessment and coaching services to help students develop 6-month career action plans before graduating.

1. The Global Leadership Executive MBA Program
Career Assessment and Management
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2. Workforce 2010: Changing Career Paradigms
OLD PARADIGMS NEW PARADIGMS
• Job Security • Employability Security
• Longitudinal Career Paths • Alternate Career Paths
• Organizational Loyalty • Job/Task Loyalty
• Career Success • Work/Family Balance
• Academic Degree • Continuous Relearning
• Position/Title • Competencies
• Full-Time Employment • Contract Employment
• Single Jobs/Careers • Multiple Jobs/Careers
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3. Your Career = Your Business
• The business of career management is
just that – an independent business you
manage - even if you work for someone
else!
• Launch your business called, “ME, Inc.”
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4. Five Key Steps
1. Narrowing focus
2. Positioning yourself
3. Timing is everything
4. Developing Plan A and Plan B
5. Staying true to yourself
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5. Importance of Focus
• Can’t do everything and do it well
• Need to be realistic
• Identify what excites you
• Consider lifestyle and geography
• Educate yourself about your options
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6. Positioning Yourself
Concentration
– What you are vs what you sell to companies
Experience
– Emphasis on relevant aspects of your
background
Scope ???
– Degree of change
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7. Timing???
• Develop an “ongoing process” mindset
• Start job search when you are ready
• Know how to play the game
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8. Plan A and Plan B
Plan A --- Your Ideal
• Target ideal functional area – industry - company
• Build on past experience
or
• Bridge to a new area of interest
• Consider marketability, geographic preference and other
personal factors
Plan B --- Your Safety Plan
• Take over if Plan A is not working
• Bridge a wide gap between experience/credentials and
career target ???
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9. Stay True to Yourself
• “You reap what you sow”
• Your career is all about YOU
• If you don’t control your own destiny, no
one else will!
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10. GLEMBA Career Management Overview
Why: Life Skill and opportunity to incorporate GLEMBA
What: Career assessment information coupled
with Career Coach discussion
Resource information on general Career Management,
and the processes of job searching and interviewing
Who: GLEMBA Students pending graduation
When: 3 months prior to graduation
Where: Course area on Bb
How: Online assessment
Teleconference
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11. Business Career Interest Inventory
Offered through Career Leader
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Passcode provided by GLEMBA
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Six month use of website
Three key assessments:
 Interests and possible careers
 Values and rewards from work
 Strengths and weaknesses vis a vis career paths
Individual reports
 Profile vs good career matches
 Fit with corporate culture
 Potential breakdowns
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12. Career Coach Discussion
One-on-one teleconference
– 45 minute confidential session
Focus of discussion determined by student
– Schedule date and time
– Complete e-form to identify career topic scenario
• Assessment report information integrated
– Complete and print out assessment reports
• Goal: Next six month action plan
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13. Next Steps
1. Access Career Management area on Bb
 October: For GL 07 Fall graduates
 January: For GL 07 Spring graduates
2. Complete pre-coaching session form
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By October 25th for Fall graduates
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Dates for Spring graduates to be announced in
January
3. Complete BCII online and print out reports
4. Participate in coaching session
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