Getting the Right People into the Right Jobs - … · Getting the Right People into the Right Jobs ... Elements of the Job Search Research Resume & Bios Informational Interview One

©2007 ExperienceMatters

Getting the Right People into the Right Jobs


The Conversation Objectives

  Understanding the context for career mobility

  Understanding SES and senior manager career attitudes and concerns

  Learning what motivates people to perform at their best

  Communicating one’s value to get an ideal assignment


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Common Career Concerns

• “I am ready move to something new but I have not zeroed in on what I want to do next”.

• “I’m apprehensive that my work experience is not valuable in another other setting”.

• “ I’m anxious some folks might think I am not flexible enough to adapt to a new setting”.

•  “I don’t know how to develop a supportive and useful network”.

•  “I’m uneasy about not being the “go to” person-in-charge anymore”.



  Concrete tools for career management

  Confidence in a process to move

  Certainty about what to look for

Building an Appetite for Mobility


Working Life Model

Evaluation

You Possibilities Choice Designed Life


You

UP TO TODAY

Values

Beliefs

Experience


  Your Personal Motivators   Last Job Worksheet   My Ideal Job   Accomplishments/Challenges   My Life Priorities

Resources for Personal Insight


Some Personal Motivators Being a Source of Knowledge & Expertise

Being Intellectually Stimulated

Being a Leader

Being Part of a Group/Camaraderie

Competing to Win/Excel

Developing New Processes & Systems

Exercising Authority/Power

Feeling Self Worth Learning Continuously

Making a difference Mentoring Pioneering the New or Unusual

Receiving Recognition

Solving Problems Being in the Center of the Action

Accomplishing Goals/Results

Pursuing Global Opportunities

Plus 16 others….


Operations Manager Competing to Excel

Solving Problems


Making a Difference


Being a Leader


Senior Policy Analyst

Being Intellectually Stimulated Solving Problems

Being in the Center of the Action

Making a Difference

Pioneering the New or Unusual

Collaborating with Others


Director, Policy Office


Being a Leader

Learning Continuously

Making a Difference

Solving Problems


Three Different Public Servants

Operations Manager Sr. Policy Analyst Director, Policy Office

Competing to Excel


Being Intellectually stimulated

Solving Problems Solving Problems Being a Leader


Being in the Center of the Action

Learning Continuously

Making a difference

Making a difference

Making a difference


Pioneering the New or Unusual

Solving Problems

Being a Leader Collaborating with Others


Your Last Job

  What did you love and what did you hate?

  Fill out the form – 5 minutes

  Share your #1 most loved and #1 most hated with your partner


Your Ideal Job

  Subject Matter

  Organization – Scope, Location, Size

  Your Role

  Your Day to Day Duties

  Work Style – 24/7, 50 hrs, Part-Time

  Compensation and Benefits

  Your Ideal Supervisor


  Pick the top 2 job characteristics that are the most important to you now.

  Describe them to yourself in the most ideal terms and write them on the worksheet.

  Turn to the person sitting next to you and describe your two most important job characteristics and what insight you just gained.

Exercise Instructions


Accomplishments & Challenges

  Essential step in preparing for an interview

  It’s okay to brag if you back it up with substantive results

  Tell them as stories

  Helpful triggers:

  Times when you were at your personal best that still bring a smile to your face

  Feedback from peers/staff (letters, e mails, verbal kudos)

  Awards/recognition

  Defining moments


Market

Your Value Proposition

YOU


Communicating Your Value

  Accomplishments

  Your Elevator Speech

  Leveraging Your Network

  Effective Informational Interviewing



  Accomplishments

  When   The Situation   What You Did   The Result

  What is your top accomplishment? Write it down.


Your Elevator Speech

  Succinct – a sentence or two max

  Describes what you’re looking for and your value

  Stimulates a conversation

  Invites your audience to share their insights about career mobility

  Invites your audience to share their network



Elevator Speech Examples   I help senior federal executives and professionals

discover the work that they love. I have helped over 400 executives in the last two years.

  I want to use my government experience to make a difference in the finance office of a Fortune 100 company.

  I want to use my legislative experience at Treasury to work at Agriculture.



Informational Interviewing

To answer all of your important questions

To gain the endorsement of the interviewer

To get three names of “respected referrals”


Some Nuts & Bolts: Elements of the Job Search

Research

Resume & Bios

Informational Interview

One Minute Elevator Speech

Job Interviews

Psychological Testing

Branding

Managing the Process

Letters

Compensation

Barriers to success

Presentation

Use of e-mail

Respected referrals

References

Dealing with rejection

Etiquette

Headhunters


My Life Priorities

  Work   Family   Relationships/Friends   Health & Fitness   Spiritual   Learning &

Development   Leisure, Travel, Play   Contribution/

Community   Routine Maintenance


The Transition Model

Time

Figure 1.1 The three phases of transition

Source: William Bridges

Ending, Losing, Letting Go

The New Beginning

The Neutral Zone


Key Transition Concepts

  Change is an event and Transition is the process of absorbing the change

  The stages are linear but you can go forward and back

  Endings, the Neutral Zone and Beginnings

  You can’t speed it up - you can only pay careful attention to your thoughts and feelings

  Different people move at different rates depending on their circumstances and experience

  You will Begin again


Great Good Luck

Finding Work That You Love


Contact Information

Peter Sherer 202-210-5587

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www.expmatters.com

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