Find Your Fit!

Agenda
• 5:00 Welcome • Lara
• 5:10 Worship • Chris Tomlin
• 5:30 Find Your Fit • Erv
• 6:10 Market Yourself • Cynthia
• 6:55 Break • Bathroom
• 7:05 Overcoming • Rigo
• 7:45 Ending

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Finding Your Fit

Erv Thomas
20 October 2010

Agenda
• About Me
• The Problem
• About You
– Hard/Soft Skills
– Personality
– Motivators
– Career Interests
– Passion
• About Jobs

Who is Erv?
• BSME, PE, UC Davis
• Aerojet
– Sr Design Engineer
• Intel
– Sr Design Engineer
– Manager, Leadership & Development
– Manager, High School Intern Program
• AMD/GLOBALFOUNDRIES
– Global Manager University Relations
• Mozilla
– College Recruiting Specialist


Who is Erv?
• My Book • My Non-Profit – the Well
– Four Secrets to Liking • My Company
Your Work – Iceberg Consulting
– Award of Excellence • Career Coaching
– Published in 6 languages • Personal and Leadership
Development


Who is Erv?
• Last 10 years as Leadership and Development
Manager for Intel taught me a lot!
– Top graduating engineers didn’t know themselves
– Didn’t really know why they went into engineering
– Didn’t have much EQ
– Didn’t know much about the world of engineering
• Big disconnect between school and industry

I now see Intel was really a microcosm of how life is for
the majority of students


First, a Story
A Rabbit on the Swim Team?

Once upon a time, the animals decided they should do something meaningful to meet the problems of the new
world, so they organized a school.

They adopted an activity curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer
the curriculum, all the animals took all the subjects.

The duck was excellent in swimming; in fact, better than his instructor. But he made only passing grades in
flying, and was very poor in running. Since he was so slow in running, he had to drop swimming and stay after
school to practice running. This caused his web feet to be badly worn, so that he was only average in
swimming. But average was quite acceptable, so nobody worried about that – except the duck.

The rabbit started at the top of his class in running, but developed a nervous twitch in his leg muscles because
of so much make-up work in swimming.

The squirrel was excellent in climbing, but he encountered constant frustration in flying class because his
teacher made him start from the ground up instead of from the treetop down. He developed "charlie
horses" from overexertion, and so only got a C in climbing and a D in running.

The eagle was a problem child and was severely disciplined for being a non-conformist. In climbing classes, he
beat all the others to the top of the tree, but insisted on using his own way to get there...

Each creature has its own set of capabilities in which it will naturally excel – unless it is expected or forced to
fill a mold that doesn't fit.
Public Schools Newsletter, Springfield, Oregon, 1982


The Problem - Fit


The Problem - Fit
The Work


Questions
• Do you know what you are good at?
• Do you know why are you good at certain things
and not so good at others?
• Do you know what job categories you line up best
with?
• Do you know where to look for a list of jobs by
category?
• Do you know how to use all this information to
see how it overlaps with the company you want
to work at?


http://www.thedailymuse.com/job-search/the-1-thing-hiring-managers-are-
looking-for/

• What does “fit” really mean? While there are nuances by role and
industry, we found a lot of commonality in our experts’ definitions:
• “It’s not about how similar you are to your interviewer. Fit is about
having a unique perspective that enhances the team while also
proving you’ll get along with the team.”
• “All else equal, fit is someone who would make a seamless transition
into the department from day one.”
• “Fit is someone who has a genuine, demonstrated interest in the
company and product on top of a creative approach to the role.”
• “Fit is the person I would be most excited to have walk into the
office the next day.”
• “It’s finding someone that I’ll want to go have a beer or glass of
wine with outside the office because they can keep me interested.”


About You
• Know Thyself! - Socrates


You - Uniquely Made
• For You formed my [i]inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for [j]I am fearfully and
wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My [k]frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them. – Ps 139


You - Uniquely Gifted
• 14 Forthe body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot says, “Because I am not
a hand, I am nota part of the body,” it is not for this reason [k]any the less a part of
the body. 16 And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the
body,” it is not for this reason [l]any the less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body
were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where
would the sense of smell be? 18 But now God has placed the members, each one of
them, in the body, just as He desired. 19 If they were all one member, where would
the body be?20 But now there are many members, but one body. 21 And the eye
cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I
have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, [m]it is much truer that the members of
the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; 23 and those members of the
body which we [n]deem less honorable, [o]on these we bestow more abundant
honor, and our less presentable members become much more
presentable, 24 whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But
God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member
which lacked, 25 so that there may be no [p]division in the body, but that the
members may have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member
suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is [q]honored, all the
members rejoice with it. – 1 Cor 12


You - Passion
• Passion
– Can’t invent it, only detect it
– Gives you more energy the more you do it
– It will bring out your best
– Something that resonates within your
heart, compels you… you can’t not do it
http://www.franklincovey.com/msb/


Your Mission/Values
http://www.franklincovey.com/msb/


Ideally
Passion

Yourself

Be
Here
Yourself Job

Skills/Abilities Job/$


Realistically

Work
Work
Work

Passion
Passion

Passion

A B C


You - Personality
D Dominance = How you handle Problems

I Influence = How you handle People

S Steadiness = How you handle Pace

C Compliance = How you handle Procedures


You - Personality
• From 4 Styles • To 8 Functions
Task Focus TP TJ

Faster Pace
Slower Pace

People Focus FP FJ


You - Personality


About You
• A Story- my son


You - Personality

C D

S I


You - Motivators
Value The Drive for
• Theoretical • Knowledge
• Utilitarian/Economic • Money
• Aesthetic • Form and Harmony
• Social/Altruistic • Helpfulness
• Individualistic/Political • Power
• Traditional/Regulatory • Order


You - Hard/Soft Skills
• Hard Skills
– IQ Oriented
– Rules stay the same
– Taught in school & books
• Soft Skills
– EQ Oriented
– Rules change
– Not taught well in school, usually learned by trial and error
• Which is more important?
– Depends on Career choice (Physicist, Lawyer, Salesman)


You - Hard Skills (~IQ)
• Samples
– Project management, financial management, budget
P&L, contract negotiations, executive leadership,
program management, business development, matrix
management, outsourcing, merchandising, strategic
planning, mergers and acquisitions, risk management,
recruitment, talent development, product launch,
direct sales, marketing, customer service, sales
forecasting, technology management, systems
migration, mechanical engineering, production
management, process improvement


A Clue
• Revealing a hard skill on your resume or in an
interview
– Describe the problem or obstacle you solved or
overcame
– Describe the process how you did it
– Detail the impact of the result


You - Soft Skills (~EQ)
• Samples
– Ambitious, tenacious, technically minded, articulate,
analytical, inquisitive, patient, methodical,
collaborative, persistent, diligent, competitive, honest,
intuitive, bold, innovative, optimistic, leader,
confident, intellectual, passionate, inspirational,
adaptable, goal oriented, cooperative, dependable,
caring, conscientious, detail oriented, focused,
dedicated, organized, strong aspirations towards
gaining knowledge, achieving results and exceeding
expectations


You - EQ
1) Self-awareness and self-control
A) The ability to fully understand oneself and ones impact on others and to use that information to manage
oneself productively
- impact on others; an accurate understanding of how ones behavior or words affect others
- emotional and inner awareness; an accurate understanding of how ones emotions and thoughts affect
behaviors
- accurate self-assessment: an honest assessment of ones strengths and weaknesses
- emotional expression: the ability to manage anger, stress, excitement and frustration
2) Empathy
A) Ability to understand the perspective of others
- respectful listening: listening respectfully to others to develop a deep understanding of others points of view
- feeling impact on others: the ability to assess and determine how situations as well as ones words and
actions affect others
- service orientation: the desire to help others
3) Social expertness
A) Ability to build genuine relationships and bonds and express caring, concern and conflict in healthy ways
- building relationships: the ability to build social bonds
- collaboration: the ability to invite others in and value their thoughts related to ideas, projects and work
- conflict resolution: the ability to resolve differences
- organizational savvy: the ability to understand and maneuver within organizations

You - EQ
4) Personal influence
A) Ability to positively lead and inspire others as well as oneself
- leading others: the ability to have others follow you
- creating a positive work climate: the ability to create an inspiring culture
- getting results through others: the ability to achieve goals through others
- self-confidence: an appropriate belief in ones skills or abilities
- initiative and accountability: being internally guided to take steps or actions and taking responsibility for
those actions
- goal orientation: setting goals for oneself and living and working toward those goals
- optimism: having a tendency to look at the bright side of things and to be hopeful for the best
- flexibility: the ability to adapt and bend to the needs of others or situations as appropriate
5) Mastery of purpose and vision
A) Ability to bring authenticity to one’s life and live out of one’s intentions and values
- understanding ones purpose and values: having a clearly defined purpose and values
- taking actions toward ones purpose: taking actions to advance ones purpose
- authenticity: alignment and transparency of one’s motives, actions, intentions, values and purpose


Summary Questions
• What makes you, you?
• Do you know what makes personalities different?
• Do you know your passion, your values, your
mission?
• Do you know what motivates you?
• Do you know why certain careers interest you?

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, whether
he/she chooses to be so or not."


About Careers


Realistic


Investigative


Artistic


Social


Enterprising


Conventional


Careers
• online.onetcenter.org


Careers


The Problem –
Finding The Right Match
• Knowing Yourself • Knowing the Jobs
– IQ and EQ – Realistic
– Personality – Investigative
– Career Leanings – Artistic
– Strengths/Abilities – Social
– Motivators – Enterprising
– Values – Conventional

online.onetcenter.org


Knowing the Job
• Company website
– Great info if you take the time to go through
everything, even past press releases
• LinkedIn
– Great info about the people who work there and who
will be interviewing you
• Glass Door
– Great inside info about the company
• Online Onet Center
• online.onetcenter.org
• Great site that lists most every job and how to fit


Conclusion
• You need to know yourself to write you
resume!
• You need to know the company to highlight
your hard/soft strengths in your resume
• You need to be able to adapt to the interview
in the same way
• The more you know about you and the more
you know about the job and conveying the
overlap properly is the key

Backup
• If internet
– http://youtu.be/1k08yxu57NA
– http://youtu.be/6DAja7-RuvM
– Rabbit on a swim team


Questions
1- not at all, 2- somewhat, 3- average, 4- good, 5- excellent

1. How well do you think you know yourself?
2. How well do you know what career options you have?
3. How well do you feel you are prepared to choose your career path
right now?
4. How satisfied do you think you will be in your career?
5. How well are you doing at directing your career path (as opposed
to life directing it for you)?
6. Are you comfortable with the amount of career options?
7. How much do you care about your career right now?
8. How well do you know what your passion is?
9. Do you feel that it is even possible to figure out how to match
your career with your interests/abilities?
10. Are you looking forward to starting you career?


Serving the High “D”

http://www.IcebergConsulting.org Page 46

Serving the High “I”


Serving the High “S”


Serving the High “C”


Non-Technical Skills you need to be
Successful

Agenda

• The Traditional Technical Skills
• Why do you need Non-Technical Skills?
• The Non-Technical Skills
• Focus on Listening Skills
• Summary
• Questions / Open

The traditional technical skills
• You need to solve complex problems
– There are rarely single-step, simple solutions
• You need technical skills to design, develop,
debug, and deliver products and ideas to
customers (internal and external)
• You will be evaluated on your technical skills

The traditional technical skills
• Examples:
– Develop a test circuit that validates current
moving through an integrated circuit
– Write a software routine that verifies real-time
output from a PC communications port
– Implement a data-mining application on an
established database
– Re-design an inefficient workstation area on the
manufacturing floor

Why do you need non-technical skills?
• For the test circuit:
– you will work with test engineers to understand
the process variables
• For the software routine:
– you will showcase your programming skills to
more senior scientists
• For the data-mining application:
– you will meet with senior management to
understand what data they need and when

The Non-Technical Skills
• Teamwork
– identify when it makes sense to call a team
together
• email is good, but can get convoluted
– teams of 5-7 people are typically a good size
– be able to work easily with others
– be perceived as easy to work with
– show leadership when appropriate

Non-Technical Skills
• Written and Verbal Communication
– You need to clearly and concisely get your ideas
across
• peers, managers, vendors, customers
– Be careful with email
• powerful, but can be over-used and mis-used
– Tailor discussions & presentations to your
audiences
– Get comfortable speaking in front of others!

• Planning, Organizational, Time Management
Skills
• You will have a diverse set of tasks
– 1/1 and staff meetings
– mission meetings
– weekly / monthly progress reports
– lab & manufacturing floor time

• You need to plan an appropriate amount of
time for each task
– this is a learned process
• Interruptions do occur. . .
– phone calls
– peer discussions
– senior manager requests (!)

• You need to be organized and prepared to
deal with the unplanned tasks
– regardless of interruptions / unplanned
issues, you must stay on track
• Re-prioritize tasks as appropriate

• Networking
– you don’t meet ‘movers and shakers’ sitting at
your desk
– take advantage of networking events
• internships, teambuilding, conferences
– always bring the paper
• students: resume
• professionals: business cards
– you find the best jobs through networking...


• Flexibility
– you will have multiple jobs in your career
• you might have multiple jobs your first year!
– the company is not doing this ‘just for fun’- it’s
business!
• programs, products, people change all the time
• you need to be prepared to excel in this environment
– take on new responsibilities as appropriate
• volunteer your support


• Dealing with Ambiguity
– tasks are sometimes clearly laid out
• ex: develop a forecast of spending for 2002
– most times, work is unstructured
• ex: develop a process to increase
manufacturing efficiency
– projects / products start as ideas - you need to
put the framework around those ideas

• Listening
– Effective listening
• mutual understanding, comfortable
– Ineffective listening
• Hurt feelings, lost information, frustration Listening


• Stress Management
– projects / products have deadlines
– deadlines are negotiated up-front, but once set
must be hit
• your work on a circuit has BIG implications:
– Functional Unit
– Chip
– Packaging
– Motherboard / PC
– OEM
– Consumer


• Stress Management
– realize that things can and do become stressful
– keep your tasks organized and balanced
– be prepared to say ‘no’
• say no with data
• show tradeoffs
– try to attain a work-life balance
• exercise, cultural interests, family, friends
• company-sponsored events & leagues

Summary

• To be successful, you need to have good technical
skills
• You also need to have solid non-technical skills
• Organizational, Time
Management, Teamwork, Written/Verbal skills
• Listening is a key non-technical skill that you now
know much more about
• Stress management is important

Questions / Opens
• What questions do you have for me?

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