Manage Your Career - Maximize Your Potential

Manage your career.Maximize your potential.

Kamyar Faronkamyar@talentral.com

(408) 391-3839

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What is career?Oxford English Dictionary: “course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life).”

Wikipedia: “an individual’s journey through learning, work and other aspects of life.”

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What is career management?

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How is it related to job search?

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I My Job

What is success?

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A well managed career leads to Success.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Confucius

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Misalignment

CompanyCompany

JobJob

DesiredJob

DesiredJob

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Alignment

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JobJob

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Fundamental dimensions of career

Domain Knowledge

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Career

Career Management

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DEEP

B R O A DB R O A D

T Shaped People

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ExpertiseExpertise

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What is a Personal Brand?

At the core of a well managed career is

A Personal Brand!

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Social Media

It’s a tool, a channel, and a medium for:marketing, positioning, and branding

&Yes, it is for everybody!

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Career Assets

Manage and use them appropriately acrossSocial Media Channels

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In Closing

• Understand your path

• Manage the trajectory

• Tend to your personal brand

• Make sure you have alignment

• Be passionate & your job

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Questions?Contact:

Kamyar Faronkamyar@talentral.com

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