Career Management for 21st Century Workforce

Career Management for 21st
Century Workforce
Engr. Dr. Sajid Iqbal
CICOPS Fellow, Fellow IEP, Fellow IEEEP, Senior Member IEEE, Member STC
TRIZ (Level 2 Practitioner, Level 1 Instructor)
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Contents
1. Your Career Path
2. Know Yourself
3. Seek Career Support
4. Become an Agile Learner
5. Overcome Career Hurdles

Your Career Path
• Don’t rely on someone else for your career development.
• Take control of your own career path, whether you’re
 looking for your first job,
 seeking a new opportunity, or
 overcoming career hurdles.

Own your career
• Do you want a fulfilling career path?
• It’s up to you to make it happen.
• Often, people assume that if they simply work hard, their
work journey will unfold the way they hope.
OR
• that their organizations will take responsibility for their
professional development.

Own your career
The truth is
“We are now in the era of do-it-
yourself career development.”
—Carter Cast,
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Own your career
Think of your professional advancement as a shared
responsibility between YOU and YOUR ORGANIZATION.

Own your career: The art of career development
• Build your career on a foundation of expertise.
• Prove the work you do matters.
• Be courageous and put yourself out there.
• Connect to a community that teaches, inspires, and supports
you.

Own your career: Take a moment
• One lesson, we all can learn from artists is building a
foundation of expertise.
• Now think about yourself. What are the top three skills you
currently bring to your job?
Due to privacy considerations, please record your answers separately.

Own your career: Climb the lattice?
• Keep in mind that the job landscape is changing.
• Traditionally, career ladders were the rule. Employees relied
on their company to provide specialized training and to
promote them upward.

• Today, career lattices have replaced career ladders.

• No fixed career paths in a career lattice.
• You have many possible ways to advance.
• You might move upward or laterally—or even take a few
steps back—as you continuously broaden and renew your
skills.

Own your career: Beyond a job search
Thinking of your career in terms of a lattice
rather than a ladder
gives you greater flexibility to explore job options.
• Now, we ’ll learn that career management differs from a job
search.

• Seek career support: Nurture your network to support your career
development.
• Become an agile learner: Maintain your value in the workplace by
keeping your skills fresh.
• Overcome career hurdles: Use career hurdles to gain clarity and
momentum in your career.
You might look for new jobs at different points in your life, but career
management is an ongoing process in which you take time to:
• Know yourself: Explore your core interests, strengths, and values to
guide your work journey.

• We live in an age of personalization.
• Everything from marketing messages to our morning coffee
are personalized to our taste and specific interests.
• Our definition of success should be no different.

• How do you define success?

• Your career doesn’t exist in isolation from the rest of your
life.
• While some people think success means financial reward,
others have a broader view.

• Which, if any, of these priorities does your definition of success
include?
 Philanthropy
 Work-life balance
 Financial reward
 Fulfillment
 Personal and professional growth
 Other
• Being proactive in managing your career can help you make
decisions that meet your definition of success.

Know yourself: Your career self
You’ll have a greater likelihood of career satisfaction when
your work matches your principles.
Evaluate the match between your job and your
 core interests,
 values, and
 skills.

• Is the idea of having one lifelong career obsolete?
• Consider these points:
 According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, today's average
worker holds 10 different jobs before age forty.
 A large majority of workers have careers in fields that are
completely different than what they went to school for.
 Many of today’s jobs won’t exist tomorrow—and many of
tomorrow’s jobs don’t yet exist.

• Few of us can expect to follow a straight line from graduation
to retirement.
• In fact, only 1 in 5 companies still have traditionally defined
career paths.
• No one can assume that the skills and expertise they have
today will be relevant tomorrow.

What does all this mean for your professional life?
• Consider building new skills as part of your job description so you can
do your current job well and prepare for your next opportunity.
• Regularly take the time to know yourself. What interests you today
might be different from what motivates and drives you tomorrow or
next year.
• Avoid letting your role define you. You may easily mistake a job you
do well for one that satisfies you. If you’re not fulfilled, you may
ultimately burn out—which doesn’t serve you or your organization.

• How much do you enjoy your current day-to-day tasks?
 Ehh, they pay the bills.
 I’m somewhat satisfied.
 I love most aspects of my job!
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• If your answer to this question isn’t favorable, it’s up to you
to make things happen.

• To take charge of your work path and determine your career
priorities, think about:
 Your core interests: The activities that energize and motivate you.
 Your skills: Your current abilities—and those you want to develop
 Your values: Your guiding principles and how they align with your
work.
 Your workplace preferences: The kinds of work environment you
prefer.

• As you reflect on these areas, you may find new aspects of your
current position or new roles in your company that meet your needs.
• Like chef and bakery owner Joanne Chang , you may decide
to reinvent yourself and move into a completely new
direction.

• If you won the lottery today, what would you do with the
rest of your life?

Own your career: What lights your fire?
• As you evaluate your job priorities, consider what excites
you. These are your core interests.
Core interests draw your attention, curiosity, or
concern.

• They drive the kinds of activities that make you happy and
ultimately keep you engaged at work.
• E.g., you may be passionate about tracking the statistics of
your favorite sport team. Or you may love language and
ideas, and write a personal blog.

• How do your interests influence your career decisions?
Video producer and esports pioneer Ariel Horn shares how making
choices around his core interests led to a deeply satisfying job.

• People whose professions match their strongest interests
have the greatest likelihood of career satisfaction.
• It’s relatively easy to learn a new skill; it’s hard to feel
passionate about work that isn't fulfilling.

Own your career: What skills do you have—or need?
• No matter what stage you are at in your career, continually
assess your skills—those you have and those you want to
develop.
Your job success depends on how effectively you can
identify and build skills—and turn them into assets.

• Some of your skills may be easy to recognize. E.g., you might
think,
“I’m often praised for my organization and planning abilities.”
• But other skills may be less obvious.

• To identify less obvious strengths, reach out to those who
know you best.
• Your family, your co-workers, and your mentors can help you
see strengths in areas you don’t immediately think of.
• Don’t let a lack of skills deter you from pursuing a goal–you
can build skills through training and practice.

• How do you currently learn new skills?
 Company-provided training opportunities
 Opportunities I find on my own.
 I’m not learning new skills.
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• It can be tough to commit to learn new skills.
• Set manageable goals, and reward yourself for reaching
them.
• To make learning a habit:
 Focus on the latest industry skills
 Engage with other learners
 Immediately implement what you’ve learned
 Identify milestones to work toward

Own your career: Want to close a skills gap?
• More than 85% of companies offer professional
development opportunities and skills training.
• If your organization doesn’t offer the training you’re looking
for, search for free online courses—there are thousands of
them. You’re bound to find one that meets your needs.

Own your career: Make a connection
• List three new skills you’d like to develop in the next year.

Own your career: What matters to you?
• A big part of career satisfaction comes from aligning your
work with your values.
• Regularly evaluate the match between your job and your
values.
 Workplace demands are changing so quickly that what you were
hired for might be vastly different from what you’re currently
doing.
 And depending on where you are in your life, your values may
shift, too.

• How important to you are these values?
 Achievement
 Recognition
 Autonomy
 Flexibility
 Compensation
 Contribution to society
• No right or wrong answers. Each of us is motivated by
different values.

• As you think about your values, keep track of those that are
most important to you, and make sure your job supports
them.
• If you find a mismatch in your current position, talk with your
boss about the possibility of making a change.

Own your career: What matters most?
• Example: You receive a generous salary but recognize that
one of the things you value most is flexibility in your work
schedule.
 One answer might be to take a salary reduction in exchange for a
four-day work week.
 What if, instead, achievement is your #1 motivator? In this case,
discuss with your manager how your work impacts the
organization as a whole and what more you could do.

Own your career: What matters most?
See how career expert Beverly Kaye suggests bringing
together your core interests, skills, and values to identify your
“career fit.”

Own your career: Where do you fit?
• When you think about your job, it’s also important to find
the right workplace fit.

Four common workplace styles are:
• The company as a community:
 An all-for-one, one-for-all spirit based on trust, teamwork, and peer-to-
peer loyalty
 Happy employees, and excellent service and products
• A constellation of stars:
 A collection of hard-driving, fiercely competitive individuals
 Success based on individual achievement

• Not just a company, a cause
 Mission-driven
 Motivation comes from the impact everyone in the company has on a
social cause, not individual achievement.
• Small is beautiful
 Easier to navigate than a large organization.
 Fewer obstacles between ideas and action.
Do you have a strong preference for one of these?

• Workplace cultures differ in other ways as well.
• Even different departments within the same organization can
have vastly different cultures.
• How would you rate your ideal organizational culture?
 Formal
 Creative
 Diverse
 Collaborative

• Think about your current workplace. How well does it match
up with your work preferences?
• If your answer is “Not so well,” are there small changes you
can make or suggest to improve the fit?

• As your career unfolds, your workplace preferences may
change, too.
• You may start your career doing really well in a competitive
“constellation of stars” organization.
• Later, you may find yourself more drawn to mission-driven
assignments.
• Understanding organizational cultural differences and how
your personal preferences may change over time will help
you make satisfying job choices.

Own your career: 30-second takeaway
• When you truly know yourself, you can look for the
opportunities, support, and rewards you need for a fulfilling
career.
• Examine your core interests to determine what excites you
and keeps you engaged.
• Look at what skills you have and what skills you want to
develop.
• Consider how your values impact the decisions you make at
work.
• Find the right workplace fit. The department you work in
should match your workplace preferences.

Own your career: Take Action
• What will you try on the job to identify your career interests,
values, skills, and workplace fit?

Seek Career Support: Cultivate your network
• Networking can play a crucial role in your professional
development.
• Learn to build relationships with people who can promote
your talents and provide guidance when you need help.

• It’s easy to get caught up in daily work and forget to develop
new connections or respond to someone who is looking to
connect with you.
But keeping in touch with a broad network of contacts
can lead to new–and sometimes surprising–
professional opportunities.

• A professional network includes many people representing a
wide range of experience.
• Each person in your professional network likely plays a
different part in supporting your career goals.
• Some may serve as information sources who keep you up to
date on industry trends.
• Others may be allies who promote your talents to people in
their network.

• Many relationships evolve naturally:
 you connect with someone at a professional conference,
 a former boss becomes a mentor, or
 someone in your own company outside of your work group
becomes your champion.
• But, you’ll need to put in some effort to make lasting
connections.

• As you nurture your current set of connections and reach out
to new ones:
• Look for diversity: Include people with a range of perspectives,
expertise, and backgrounds. You want contacts who will help you
consider new ideas.
• Include listeners: It’s often easy to find people who will dispense
advice. But people who listen while you talk through a problem
are often more helpful.
• Cultivate relationships: Don’t call only when you need help: make
plans to
 meet at conferences,
 get together for coffee, and
 acknowledge events such as birthdays.

• How to Really Use LinkedIn?
• Can I rely on social media to develop my network?
 Having many social media connections doesn’t necessarily mean
you have a strong professional network.
 And sending generic mass messages won’t establish your
professional credibility.

To use social media effectively to grow and sustain your network:
 Introduce yourself: Use LinkedIn or a similar platform to summarize
your work experience. When you seek to connect with someone,
explain why.
 Share a link: Perhaps you’ve read a news article or blog post and
thought of someone in your network. Drop them a quick note with
the link.
 Promote your personal brand: A website, blog, or social media page
can help call attention to your capabilities, talents, and vision.
 Personalize your approach: Only send messages that are tailored
specifically for the recipient. People are more likely to respond if you
take the time to connect with them and their interests.

Seek Career Support: Form a board of directors
• Do you crave regular input and advice on your professional
development?
• Create a personal board of directors (PBD).
• A personal board of directors is a group of 6 to 8 people you
consult to guide your career choices.

• Turn to them for feedback when you’re faced with opportunities,
challenges, or critical career decisions.
• How is a board of directors different from your professional network?
• Professional Network:
 Broad group
 Similar industry or interests
 Interactions focus on business
 General communications
• Personal Board of Directors
 Small, carefully selected group
 Varied backgrounds and interests
 Interactions focus on business and personal
goals
 Targeted discussions

“As with any good board of directors, you
need to fill different roles and specialties
to optimize its effectiveness.”
—Sabina Nawaz, CEO Coach
• As you develop a list of possible board members, keep in
mind that the most valuable contributors:
 Offer different viewpoints and come from different parts of your
work life.
 Are more skilled than you at something.
 Are more knowledgeable than you about something.

• Including only people who affirm your choices won’t help
you grow in your career.
• Having a PBD doesn’t have to be a formal process. There’s no
need to hold meetings—but do select the right people and
stay in touch.
• The relationship will feel more natural if you choose people
you already communicate with regularly.

• Think about someone in your work life who might be a good
candidate for your personal board of directors. Do they:
 Have more skills and knowledge than you do in certain areas?
 Tell you the truth?
 Help you uncover your blind spots?
 Advocate for your best interests?
• If that person fills 3 or more of these criteria, they will likely
be a great fit for your board.

• In the video, Christine Liu describes a few ways you might
consider using your board of directors.
• Your board can be a particularly valuable resource when you
are considering a career transition.
• Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. The
combined efforts of your team of experts might just yield
excellent results.

Seek Career Support: Find a helping hand
• As you navigate through your work journey, you’ll run into
many opportunities and lots of change along the way.
• The key to success is to draw on your connections to help
you.
It’s common to feel uncomfortable requesting career
help.

• But by following certain practices, you can make it easy for
someone to say “yes” to your request for support on
reaching your career goals.

When you ask for help, be sure to:
• Explain your goals: Let the other person know what you admire about
their work or experience, and how you believe they can help you.
• Focus on mutual benefits: Explain what you can offer the other
person—whether it’s knowledge, insight, or support.
• Describe how you envision the relationship functioning: Keep your
expectations modest and be considerate of the other person’s time.
• Allow time to respond: Offer the other person time to consider your
request, and plan to check in with them later.

• Who do you turn to for support on reaching your career
goals?
 My manager
 A trusted peer
 A mentor
 Someone in my personal life

Seek Career Support: 30-second takeaway
• Make cultivating your network a habit. Be curious about
others, stay in touch, and thank them for their advice or
perspective.
• Form a diverse personal board of directors. Turn to these
people for advice when you’re faced with opportunities,
challenges, or critical decisions.
• Don’t be afraid to ask for career help. Be strategic and make
it easy for that person to say “yes.”

What will you try on the job to expand your professional
network?

Become an Agile Learner: Learn... to be successful
• What’s the most important skill you need to succeed in
today’s dynamic work world?
• It’s not technical proficiency or leadership competency—it’s
the ability to learn.

• Understand what it means to be an agile learner, and why
you should pursue opportunities to stretch and grow in and
out of work.
• In today’s ever-evolving workplaces, continuous learning is a
must for remaining competitive and providing ongoing value.

Why?
“The half-life of skills is getting shorter.”
— Joanna Daly, Vice President of Talent

• Without a concerted effort to continually refresh and renew
your skills, you run the risk of falling behind.
• But it’s one thing to talk about the importance of learning
and another to actually do it.

• As children, we spend much of our time in school learning
how to learn.
• As adults, we often get out of the habit.

• Do you regularly make time for learning?
• Yes
• No
• Not sure
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• Think about playing a sport or mastering an instrument.
 Practice,
 repetition,
 reflection, and
 feedback
are all key to success.
• The same is true of learning new job skills.

• You don’t need to wait for guidance from your boss to build
new skills.
• But you do need to be sure you’re focusing your learning in
the right areas:
 Consider what’s valuable to your organization
 Research the skills, companies in your industry are looking for
 Set up opportunities to develop skills where you have gaps
 Enlist people to provide you with feedback as you try out new
skills

Become an Agile Learner: Make a connection
• What can you do today to find out what skills are valuable to
your organization or in your industry?

Become an Agile Learner: Grow your mindset
• Certain barriers stand in the way of learning—some of which
are in our own minds.
• Studies show that unless you believe you can grow and
develop new skills, all the practice in the world won’t make
much of a difference.

• What’s your attitude toward learning? Be honest!
 Talent and intelligence are static.
 Failure is a sign of weakness.
 I avoid and dismiss criticism as not useful.
 Someone else’s success is a threat to me.

• Did you mostly agree or disagree with the statements
above?
 I mostly agreed
 I mostly disagreed
 My responses are mixed

• If you mostly agreed with the statements above, you may
have a fixed mindset—a mindset that puts the brakes on
learning.
• Good news: You can take actions to adopt a growth
mindset—a mindset that is open to new ways of thinking
and accelerates learning.

• Four steps to adopt a growth mindset:
 Recognize when you’re avoiding a challenge: When you’re afraid
you might embarrass yourself or fail, you’re stuck in a fixed
mindset.
 Realize you have a choice: You can retreat, or you can reframe the
challenge as an opportunity to learn.

 Have an inner dialogue: Use language that reflects a growth
mindset—e.g., instead of saying, “I’m not interested in learning how
to use data analytics because I’ve never been good at math,” say,
“Learning about data analytics will help me improve my market
forecasting skills, and I can ask my coworkers to help me if I have
questions.”
 Deliberately switch to a growth mindset: Take on the challenge, seek
feedback, and learn from setbacks.

Become an Agile Learner: Take a moment
What 2-3 actions can you take to grow your mindset?

Become an Agile Learner: Be agile
• With the fast pace of change, figuring out what to do in
unfamiliar situations is crucial.
• It’s the hallmark of learning agility.
• You’re an agile learner when you can:

Certain practices can help you improve your learning agility:
• Pursue your personal interests and satisfy your own curiousity: You
never know what knowledge become relevant to your current job or
to future opportunities.
• Build an intellectually diverse network: Include individuals who will
bring different approaches to the challenges you face.
• Dampen your natural defensiveness: Resist the urge to respond to
feedback immediately, taking time instead to carefully assess
divergent advice.
• Search for lessons in unsuccessful and successful outcomes: Ask if
other approaches might have been better whether what worked
well today will work well in the future.

• Build learning opportunities into your daily job activities.
• E.g., ask your manager for more challenging assignments or
pursue formal development opportunities.

Become an Agile Learner: Stretch in place
• Having a growth mindset and being an agile learner are
important ways to maintain your value in the workplace.
• But what do you do when you’re not learning and growing in
your current position?
• Before you look elsewhere, consider ways to stretch your
skills in your job.

1. In your current role, do you have the opportunity to add
value?
2. Are you growing and learning?

• Another way to increase your on-the-job learning
opportunities is through job crafting.
• In job crafting, you alter your job to better achieve a
personal or professional objective.
• E.g., people use job crafting to adjust their work/life balance,
to minimize boredom, or to improve their overall job
satisfaction.

• How often do you deliberately tweak your approach to your
job to increase learning opportunities at work?
 Frequently
 Sometimes
 Rarely
 Never
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Two ways to use job crafting for learning:
• Task crafting. Change the bundle of tasks you work on or the
amount of time you spend on different tasks, so you can devote
more time to those with higher learning payoffs.
• Relationship crafting. Change the patterns of your interpersonal
interactions so you can work with people with diverse viewpoints
or skills you want to learn.

• To build new skills and adaptability, you could also speak
with your manager about the idea of job rotation.
• When you rotate jobs, you take on new tasks in a different
role for a period of time before returning to your original
position.

• If you still don’t feel challenged by your job, you may be
tempted to start looking outside your current organization.
• But before you do, consider other opportunities within your
current organization.

• When you’re curious about new job opportunities, where do
you look first?
 Internal job boards
 My manager
 Online job sites
 People in my network
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• If your job duties don’t align with your career goals, your
ideal role might just be waiting for you to create it!

Become an Agile Learner: 30-second takeaway
• The most important job skill today is the ability to learn.
• A growth mindset is the belief you can grow and develop new
skills.
• Figuring out what to do in unfamiliar situations is the hallmark
of learning agility.
• If you’re not growing in your current position, before looking
elsewhere, consider job crafting and other ways to stretch
your skills.

• What will you try on the job to become an agile learner?

Overcome Career Hurdles: Bumps in the road
• Feeling stuck in your career or rebounding from a setback?
• Treat career impasses, ruts, and uncertainties as
opportunities to follow a more fulfilling job path.

• No one’s employment journey is perfectly smooth. There will
always be bumps along the way.
 You may be laid off,
 fired, or
 passed over for promotion. Or
 you may just come to a point where you feel stuck.
• How can you weather struggles like these and emerge with
clarity and greater momentum?

• Think of each position as an assignment—a stepping stone
on the path to your next opportunity.
Begin by reminding yourself that no job is permanent.

When you consider your job as temporary, you are more likely
to:
 Invest in your skills: You’ll improve at your current job and prepare
for your next one.
 Grow your network: Make lasting connections—you never know
when you’ll use them.
 Maintain a sense of balance: Your job is not the whole of who you
are, nor does it determine whether you are successful in life.
By seeing each role as an opportunity to learn and grow, you
are likely to increase your job satisfaction.

Overcome Career Hurdles: Bounce back
• It’s inevitable that at some point in your work journey, you’ll
experience a setback or feel stuck.
• You may be tempted to respond in the moment, but stop
yourself. The first thing out of your mouth isn’t likely to be
useful for your reputation or job prospects.

Instead, take time to cool down.
When you’re stressed, your body automatically goes
into “fight-or-flight” mode.
Adreneline courses through your body, which makes it hard to
think or speak rationally.

Once you’ve gotten past your initial emotional response, use these
strategies to reframe your thinking—and turn the challenge into an
opportunity:
• Switch the question: Swap “Why me?” and other questions that provoke self-pity.
Opt for action-oriented questions, such as “What can I do to move forward?” or
“What positives can I gain from this situation?”
• Set “negativity appointments”: Rather than let negative thoughts consume you,
schedule specific times everyday where you allow yourself to think about the
setback. During the rest of the day, if negative thoughts occur, mentally set them
aside until your “appointment.”
• Try to see other viewpoints: Looking at events or decisions from the company’s
vantage point helps you forgive where necessary and gain insight that may help
you avoid repeating mistakes.

• Have you ever had a career setback?
• Yes
• No
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Overcome Career Hurdles: Get unstuck
• Everyone has bad days or even weeks at work. But if you’ve
felt stuck—not learning, not growing, not engaged—for
longer than that, you may be at a career impasse.
• Such impasses are not unusual. Admitting you’re caught up
in one is the first step to making a change.

Overcome Career Hurdles: Get unstuck
• Timothy Butler suggests thinking about a career impasse as a wake-
up call.
• Some ways to start moving past the impasse:
• Identify five to seven jobs that excite you: Look at the underlying themes. Are
you searching for new learning opportunities? Do you want to unleash your
artistic side? Use these to narrow your list down.
• Collect data on your short list of options: Conduct informational interviews
and read up on any new skills or companies that interest you. Tap your
networks to get feedback on the options you’re considering.
• Look for opportunities: Can you redesign your job or are there other
positions in the company that would be a better fit? If so, explore these
possibilities with your manager. Consider expanding your search to
other companies only after exhausting these options.

Overcome Career Hurdles: Take a moment
Think about your career journey. Was there ever a time where
you felt stuck? What did you do to get out of the rut?

Overcome Career Hurdles: Move forward
• Moving forward when you face a setback or find yourself in a rut
takes time and determination.
• To guide your path to success:
• Brush up your elevator pitch: Be ready with a pithy explanation of what
makes you stand out.
• Tend to your online presence: Make sure your social media profiles are up to
date and positive.
• Get allies to help build your reputation: Tap old colleagues, mentors, and
other contacts with credibility to attest to your skills and character.
• Whatever you do, don’t disparage your former employer or
colleagues—it makes you seem unprofessional.

Overcome Career Hurdles: Move forward
• Remember, a setback is an excellent opportunity to reconsider
what kind of work is most meaningful to you.
• A change in field might not be as financially rewarding at first,
but it could lead to much greater job satisfaction.
• And by recognizing that circumstances can quickly change, you
can take steps to prepare for unexpected career changes.

Overcome Career Hurdles: Own your role
• Have you ever received a promotion you weren’t
comfortable with? Or received an email about an ideal job
posting in your company and deleted it?
• If so, like many people, you may have experienced something
known as imposter syndrome.

• It can prevent you from pursuing new opportunities.
• Which of the following, if any, apply to you?
 I tend to discount my success.
 I feel compelled to be the best.
 The fear of failure often paralyzes me.
 I sometimes avoid showing confidence.
 I focus more on what I haven’t done than what I have done.
• If you checked any of the descriptions above, imposter syndrome
might be holding you back. Fortunately, you can use awareness
of imposter syndrome to your advantage.

• To work through feelings of imposter syndrome:
 Focus on what you’ve already accomplished—and what you’re
interested in learning—instead of on what you lack.
 Conquer your fear by challenging untrue negative thoughts.
 Concentrate on the value you bring to your new role.
• When you experience a career impasse, take action to keep
moving forward. Figure out what’s holding you back, then
decide what you can do today to shift toward a more
fulfilling job path tomorrow.

Overcome Career Hurdles: 30-second takeaway
• No job is permanent. Think of each position as a stepping stone to
your next opportunity.
• Take advantage of being between jobs to think creatively about your
career path.
• Admitting you’re stuck in a career rut is the first step to making a
change.
• Use a setback as a chance to reevaluate what’s most important to
you.
• Challenging imposter syndrome can be an opportunity for growth.

Overcome Career Hurdles: Take action
• What will you try on the job to manage career obstacles and
setbacks?

References
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashiraprossack1/2018/12/22/career-rut/?sh=4d092e62564a
• Rewriting the rules for the digital age. 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends.
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/human-capital/hc-2017-global-human-capital-trends-
us.pdf
• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/future-of-work-expertise-navy/590647/
• https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/careers-and-learning-real-time.html

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