Harvard Career Guide.docx

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Topic Summary

This topic contains information on how to

identify your core business interests, work reward values, and skills identify the career opportunities within your current role or organization that will let you

express those interests, achieve those rewards, and use or develop those skills benefit from career-development resources and processes like career counselors,

mentors, networking, informational interviewing, and professional development reviews help others manage their careers.

Topic Index

Topic Overview What Would You Do?Where Should You Focus?Topic IndexTopic Summary

About the MentorsUsing the Topic

Core Concepts What Is Career Development?Taking Charge of Your CareerKnowing YourselfIdentifying Your Core Business InterestsClarifying Your Work Values


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Assessing Your SkillsFinding Development Opportunities at Your CompanyHelping Others Manage Their CareersFrequently Asked Questions

Steps

Steps for Clarifying Your Work Reward ValuesSteps for Defining Your Career TargetSteps for Defining and Obtaining New SkillsSteps for Preparing for an Informational InterviewSteps for Sculpting Your Job

Tips Tips for Choosing the Right Development OpportunitiesTips for Choosing a Career CounselorTips for Choosing MentorsTips for NetworkingTips for Informational InterviewingTips for Getting the Skills You Need

Tips for Staying on CourseTips for Talking with Your Supervisor about ChangeTips for Conducting a Professional Development Review

Practice InstructionsScenario

Tools Discovery LogSkills AssessmentInformational Interviewing WorksheetRewards Worksheet

Career Self-Assessment Worksheet

Test Yourself InstructionsQuestions

To Learn More Harvard Online ArticleNotes and ArticlesBooksOther Information SourceseLearning Programs

About the Mentors

James Waldroop, Ph.D. and Timothy Butler, Ph.D.

The Directors of MBA Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School,Waldroop and Butler are co-founders of Peregrine Partners, a consulting firm that focuses onbusiness psychology. Peregrine helps people find the most productive career paths andsucceed in pursuing their goals and helps companies hold on to those people. Specifically,


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they provide organizations with sophisticated, customized career self-management programs fortheir employees. Their Internet-based interactive career program, CareerLeader, is used bymore than 130 corporations and MBA programs around the world.

Waldroop and Butler are the authors of three highly acclaimed Harvard Business Review articles("Managing Away Bad Habits," "Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People," and "The

Executive as Coach"), the books Maximum Success: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns ThatKeep You From Getting Ahead (Currency Doubleday, 2000) and Discovering Your Career inBusiness (Perseus, 1997), and articles in Fortune , Fast Company , and other magazines. Theyare interviewed frequently on CNBC and in other popular media on issues related to careermanagement, retaining talent, and maximizing effectiveness, and are frequent speakers tocorporate audiences on those topics.

Their firm works with a wide range of organizations in both the manufacturing and servicesectors, from Fortune 50 corporations to smaller high-growth firms. Their clients include BectonDickinson, Boston Consulting Group, Fidelity Management Research Company, Genuity,JAFCO Ventures, and Sony Music Entertainment.

What Would You Do?

David had an epiphany. He no longer wanted to work in advertising. He liked the people, but hedidn't find his career stimulating anymore. Then reality set in. He thought to himself: "I'm too oldto start from scratch. Too old to learn new skills. And too old to go back to school." Yet herealized that he had years of valuable knowledge and experience. Everyone said he was a greatmanager, and he had a knack for understanding client needs. Then it hit him. "I'm not too old tostart something new I'm too young to give up on my dreams!" But where should he start? Whatshould he do to move himself in the right direction? What would you do?

What Could You Do?

As David begins the process of thinking about a new career, he might ask himself the followingquestions:

What are his core business interests that is, what types of work is he most passionateabout? For example, does he prefer problem solving, working with people, or makingdecisions?

What are his deepest work values? For example, does he care more about havingautonomy or earning a big salary?

And, what are his strongest skills?

Once he has identified the answers to these questions, he will be on his way to defining andnavigating his career path.

In this topic, you'll find ways to determine what direction you want to take, learn how to assessyour current skills and abilities, and find tools that will help you get on the path to morerewarding and meaningful work. After you have explored the ideas in this topic, be sure to click"Practice," where you can participate in an interactive scenario, make decisions, and receiveimmediate feedback on your choices.

Where Should You Focus?


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Where Should You Focus? is an online, interactive exercise that helps you identify areas withinthe program where you might concentrate. For further information, please visit this exerciseonline.

Using the Topic

Topic Structure

The content for Managing Your Career is divided into the sections listed below. Links to thesesections appear across the top of your screen.

Topic Overview Click Topic Overview for an introduction to the topic. Review a hypothetical situation, WhatWould You Do?, followed by a response, What Could You Do? A brief exercise, Where ShouldYou Focus?, helps you identify areas where you might concentrate. The Topic Index provides a"site map" with links to all the elements within the topic.

Core Concepts Click Core Concepts for a comprehensive presentation of the main ideas in the topic. You'll findbackground information on key concepts in career development; the importance of knowingyourself; and the role of business interests, values, and skills in navigating your own career, aswell as helping others navigate theirs.

Steps Click Steps for procedures that help you clarify the work reward values that most motivate you,define the skills you need to move forward in your career, identify exciting work possibilities withyour current role and elsewhere in your organization, and prepare for informational interviews.

Tips

Click Tips for quick advice about networking, mentoring, and career counseling; staying true toyour professional path; strategically choosing the best career opportunities at your company;working with your supervisor to define and move toward your goals; getting the skills you need tomove forward; and conducting informational interviews.

Practice Click Practice to participate in an interactive scenario where you assume the role of a manager,make decisions, and receive immediate feedback on your choices.

Tools Click Tools to view and print worksheets that can help you identify your core business interests,clarify your highest priority work reward values, ask the right questions during an informationalinterview, assess your current and potential future career situation, track your professional

preferences as you learn, and assess your skills.

Test Yourself Click Test Yourself to see how far you've come in learning how to manage your career. You willreceive immediate feedback on the choices you make. A summary page provides links toreference material.

To Learn More Click To Learn More to read an article related to the topic. You will also find an annotated list of


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articles and other resources.

Topic Navigation

To navigate through the topic, click the links at the top and on the left of your screen. When youclick a link at the top of the screen, the links on the left will change.

Getting Started

Depending on your needs and available time, you can explore the topic in any order you prefer.Two possible paths through the program follow. If you have limited time, the first option suggestshow to focus your learning. The second option presents a comprehensive, linear path throughthe topic.

Focused Path

Click Topic Overview at the top. Click Where Should You Focus? on the left. Complete the Where Should You Focus? exercise.

Print your results. Review the recommended Core Concepts.

Comprehensive Path

Visit each section in the topic by clicking the links at the top, from left to right. Review the information within each section by clicking the links on the left, from top to

bottom. In the Practice section, click Next to continue through the scenario. When you reach a

decision point, make a choice and read the feedback. Then examine the other choicesfor additional information. Again, click Next to continue.

In the Tools section, click on an icon to open a tool. You can print a copy of the tool touse offline. Or, you can complete the tool online and save it to your hard drive.

Finish by taking the quiz in Test Yourself and reading the Harvard Online Article in ToLearn More.


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Other Information Sources

www.Careerdiscovery.com

This site, created by the subject matter experts of "Managing Your Career," is the homeof CareerLeader , the most comprehensive and sophisticated business career self-assessment program available. Used by more than 125 corporations and MBAprograms worldwide, CareerLeader is an interactive online "expert system" that (1)assesses your core interests, work reward values, and abilities; (2) directs you tospecific careers to explore; and (3) provides you with information about those careers. A"guided tour" on the site demonstrates what the program offers.

eLearning Programs

Harvard Business School Publishing. Leadership Transitions . Boston: Harvard Business SchoolPublishing, 2001. Online program.

Whether taking on a new position in your current company or starting in a neworganization Leadership Transitions will help you succeed. This performance supportresource, built with the expertise of Michael Watkins, arms managers with theknowledge they need when they need it. Managers will learn to diagnose situations,assess vulnerabilities, accelerate learning, prioritize to succeed, work with a new boss,build teams, create partnerships, and align units. The program consists of a wide arrayof assessments and planning tools that learners can use throughout a transition period.

Harvard Business School Publishing. What Is a Leader? . Boston: Harvard Business SchoolPublishing, 2001. Online program.

What Is a Leader? is the most tangible, relevant online leadership program available onthe market today. You will actively and immediately apply concepts to help you growfrom a competent manager to an exceptional leader. Use this program to assess yourability to lead your organization through fundamental change, evaluate your leadershipskills by examining how you allocate your time, and analyze your "EmotionalIntelligence" to determine your strengths and weaknesses as a leader. In addition, workthrough interactive, real world scenarios to determine what approach to take whendiagnosing problems, how to manage and even use the stress associated with change,empower others and practice empathy when managing the human side of interactions.Based on the research and writings of John Kotter, author of Leading Change and otherof today's top leadership experts, this program is essential study for anyone chargedwith setting the direction of and providing the motivation for a modern organization.

Source Notes

Managing Your Career

Core Concepts


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Laurence G. Boldt. Zen and the Art of Making a Living . New York: Penguin/Arkana, 1999.

Richard N. Bolles. The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them . Berkeley, CA: TenSpeed Press, 1981.

Timothy Butler and James Waldroop. Discovering Your Career in Business . Cambridge, MA:

Perseus Books, 1997.

Timothy Butler and James Waldroop. "Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People."Harvard Business Review , September-October 1999.

Katie Carlone. Personal communication. September 13, 2000.

Caela Farren. Whos Running Your Career? Austin, TX: Bard Press, 1997.

Cliff Hakim. We Are All Self-Employed. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 1994.

Linda Hill, "Managing Your Career." Harvard Business School Publishing, December 15, 1998.

Product no. 9-494-082.

Robert H. Waterman, Jr., Judith A. Waterman, and Betsy A. Collard. "Toward a Career-ResilientWorkforce." Harvard Business Review , July-August 1994.

Steps


Timothy Butler and James Waldroop. Discovering Your Career in Business . Cambridge, MA:Perseus Books, 1997.

James Waldroop. Personal communication. October 12, 2000.

Tips

Jim Billington. "Meet Your New Mentor: Its a Network." Harvard Management Update , August1997.


Richard N. Bolles. The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them . Berkeley, CA: TenSpeed Press, 1981.

Timothy Butler and James Waldroop. Discovering Your Career in Business . Cambridge, MA:Perseus Books, 1997.

Katie Carlone. Personal communication. September 13, 2000.

Caela Farren. Whos Running Your Career? Austin, TX: Bard Press, 1997.

Linda Hill, "Managing Your Career." Harvard Business School Publishing, December 15, 1998.


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Richard Koonce, "How To Prevent Professional Obsolescence." Training & Development ,February 1999.

Morgan W. McCall, Jr. High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders . Cambridge:Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

Barbara Moses. The Good News about Careers: How Youll Be Working in the Next Decade .San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

James Waldroop. Personal communication. October 25, 2000.

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