1. Strategizing and Managing Your Job Search
Angela Heyroth
Daniels College of Business
University of Denver

2. Agenda Overview of career mapping – Steps and processes
Create your career map
Wrap-up and next steps

3. Breaking Old Paradigms
What is Career Management?
Your personal business/marketing plan
Your roadmap to success and happiness

4. The Importance of Career Management
Everyone needs a little direction in life
Strategize your search
Discover your values, skills, and interests
Provide a sense of stability and direction
Assess your employability
Find the thread tying your background and goals together
Allow “out of the box” thinking

5. Steps in the Process Self-assessment Development planning
Market scanning
Action Planning (and Implementation)

6. Career Mapping Step 1: Self-Assessment
What drives you? What are your values?
What are your unique talents?
What are your needs?
What have you accomplished?
What do you enjoy? What don’t you enjoy?
How do you need to be rewarded?
What environments do you thrive in?
What factors are important to you in a job? (geography, rewards, employees, commute, culture, the work itself, managerial style, etc.)

7. Career Mapping Step 2: Development Planning
Where are you lacking? What do you need to get better at?
What is your ideal job? Where do you want to be in 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?
What goals and objectives do you need to set, and what help do you need to make them come true?

8. Career Mapping Step 3: Market Scanning
What opportunities are available in the broad career market?
What challenges and opportunities do you face in light of this?
What problems and risks are inherent in this chosen field? What are you willing to put up with?

9. Career Mapping Step 4: Action Planning
What are your concrete and manageable goals?
What is your timeline? Target dates?
What are your deliverables?
What are the risks, obstacles, and benefits?
What resources and other help will you need in order to complete each action item?
Reward yourself as action items are completed
Review periodically and make changes as necessary

10. Learn about XYZ Company Oct. 31 Take notes and make print-outs
Action Item
Deadline
Deliverables
Resources needed
Risks
Benefits
Follow-up
Learn about XYZ Company
Oct. 31
Take notes and make print-outs
Hoovers.com
None
More knowledge about the industry
Contact 3 people every week
Ongoing – due every Wed.
Send s and get additional names
Contact database; learn how to network
May not respond; may not ask right thing
Expand network and get good information

11. C a r e e r M a p
Who I am now
Ultimate goal
Action Plan

12. Where you are now
Where you want to be
Action Plan
CAREER MAP
Development Plan

13. Create Your Career Map: 20 minutes
Be creative and take risks
Be realistic and all-inclusive
Spend minutes now and then another 5-10 minutes sharing it with someone else
Resources:
Various styles of career maps
Values inventory
List of core competencies

14. Next Steps – Turning ideas into reality
“When using any map, it’s a good idea to do a reality check and make sure the road still exists, watch out for construction, and follow all precautions. This is only to be used as an aid in planning.”
Seek out a board of advisors who make sure you’re on the right track
Keep your development plan updated
Be aware of all your opportunities and resources
Be open to spontaneous opportunities