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LEVERAGING YOUR CAREER COMPETENCIES: MAPPING OUT YOUR ROUTE TO SUCCESS EXPERIENCE VLERICK DAY - #EXPERIENCEVLERICK

Defining your Path to Success by Prof Dirk Buyens

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LEVERAGING YOUR CAREER COMPETENCIES: MAPPING OUT YOUR ROUTE TO SUCCESS

EXPERIENCE VLERICK DAY - #EXPERIENCEVLERICK

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There are three kinds of people:

Those who MAKE things happenThose who WATCH what happens

Those who WONDER what happened

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AIM

Providing you some guidelines for steering your career in the right direction

Outlining the basic principles of self-management

Gaining insight into internal and external factors that influence your career success

Internal: helping you to define your preferred career values and moves

External: helping you to manage your professional context

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1.Basic principles of

career management

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MY CAREER?

Until now, I feel successful in my career because

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CRUCIAL INFLUENCES

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What is my professional

identity?(wants & skills)

Who shapes

my career?

What advances my career?

Car

eer

oppo

rtun

ities C

areer

support

My career context

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Self-reflection

Self-directedness

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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

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2.Your professional identity

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WHAT DO YOU WANT? ON VALUES AND CAREER PATHS

What are your intrinsic career values?

What career path do you want to pursue?Are you fundamentally an expert or a manager?

What is a realistic time perspective?

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WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT? ON STRENGTHS AND PASSION

How easy is it to you to name your strengths?

One knows

One develops

One communicates

50%

25%

10%

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3.Your career context

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WHAT SHAPES YOUR CAREER? ON STRUCTURES

Employer safety habits: importance of networking

What are the characteristics of the internal labour market?

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WHO SHAPES YOUR CAREER? ON CAREER INFLUENCERS

The importance of colleagues: boss, peers or subordinates?

Build your social network Functional, strategic, developmental and broad

Complementarity

Be proactive in asking for feedback and advice “Don’t wait until opportunity knocks on your door”

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“Reasonable people adapt

themselves to the world.

Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to

themselves. All progress,

therefore, depends on

unreasonable people.”

G.B. Shaw

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FEEL LIKE SOME MORE?

Management Acceleration Programme (Oct 2013)

Executive MBA (Oct 2013)

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Questions? Feel free to contact me!

[email protected]

0475/83 68 83

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