On June 22-23, 2012, the Center for Health Leadership and the California Pacific Public Health Training Center at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health held their 4th Annual Leadership Conference, "Taking Charge of Your Career." Enjoy this presentation from Jeff Oxendine, Associate Dean at the Center for Public Health Practice, as he shares how to develop your own authentic path in the health career professions. To learn more about this event, please visit: http://chl.berkeley.edu/events/chl-conferences/2012-conference Learn more about CALPACT: http://calpact.org/ Learn more about the CHL: http://chl.berkeley.edu/

1. Developing Your Next Steps:
Emerging Health Careers and Your
Authentic Path
Jeff Oxendine, MPH, MBA
Associate Dean, Public Health Practice
UC Berkeley School of Public Health
President, Health Career Connection
President, My Health Career Navigator

2. Presentation Overview
! Authentic Health Career
! Life-Career Planning Framework
! Emerging Health Careers
! Strategies for Developing your Next Steps
! Action Plan Preparation

3. Authentic Health Career Path
! Your authentic path is the one that best
suits your talents, passions, goals and life
circumstances.
! “Understand that the right to choose your
own path is a sacred privilege. Use it.
Dwell in possibility”.
Oprah Winfrey

4. ! “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it
living someone else’s life. Don’t be
trapped by dogma, which is living with the
results of other people’s thinking. Don’t
let the noise of other’s opinions drown out
your inner voice. Most important, have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you
truly want to become. Everything else is
secondary”.
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement

5. Health and Employer Needs and Opportunities
Good at/EnjoyPassion, Values, Goals
Authentic Alignment
Purpose/Mission
Meaningful work
Making a difference
Rewards
Satisfaction
Wellness
! Being
! Searching
! Surviving

6. You are exactly where you
are supposed to be!

7. Life and Career Planning
Framework
! Exposure to what is possible
! Self assessment and discovery
! Practical experience
! Choose, actively pursue direction and plan
! Educational preparation
! Preparation/Packaging
! Support Network
! Belief and Courage
! Ongoing learning and adjustment

8. Exposure
! Trends
! Abundance of opportunities
! Specific roles and organizations
! Job titles and qualifications
! How do you gain more exposure?

9. Major Trends
! Health Reform
! Aging and increasingly diverse population
! Health equity and cultural appropriateness
! Chronic disease prevention and management
! Population health
! Cost reduction
! New service and delivery models
! Quality and performance improvement

10. Major Trends
! Health Information Technology
! Building healthy communities
! Inter-sectoral and inter-professional
! Health in all policies
! Evidenced based decisions
! Immigration health issues
! Accreditation
! Mental health and substance abuse
! Health workforce and leadership

11. Major Trends
! Technological Advances
! Personalized health
! Bio and pharma advances
! Emerging infections
! Environmental health and justice
! Research
! Global health issues

12. Hot & Emerging Health Career
Paths
! Primary Care Physician
! Advanced Practice Nurse
! Physician Assistant
! Clinical Lab Scientist
! Pharmacist
! Public Health Professionals
! Social Work
! Medical Imaging
! Health Administration
! Health IT

13. Hot & Emerging Paths within
Public Health
! Advocacy and Policy
! Population Health (non-traditional players)
! Community Benefit
! Connectivity and integration
! Coalition builder and collective action
! Care management and coordination
! Evidenced based research, analysis
evaluation

14. Hot & Emerging Paths within
Public Health
! HIT and use of information
! New media and mobile
! Management and leadership roles
! Inter-sectoral connector/program manager
! Citizen research or journalism
! Consulting
! Project and Program management

15. Skills in Demand
! Project management
! Analytical skills and use of Excel
! Performance improvement
! Facilitation
! Verbal and written communication
! Team leadership and followership
! Budget and financial management

16. Skills in Demand
! Management and supervision
! Organizational culture, dynamics, change
! Get things done, measurable results
! Interpersonal
! New media
! Policy and Advocacy
! Evaluation
! Language and community

17. “To build the life you want,
create the work you love”
Marsha Sinetar

18. Assessment and Discovery
! Goal: Identify what you want, work you love,
requirements, skills and credentials
! Life-Career Planning Assessment
! Other assessment resources (MB, Strong, etc)
! Competencies
! Goal Setting and Action Plan

19. “As you become more clear about
who you really are, you'll be better
able to decide what is best for you -
the first time around."
Oprah Winfrey

20. What Role and Impact Do You
Want to Have?
! Population (s)
! Health issue or determinant
! Type of organization
! Role or function
! How close to patient or community
! Impact you want to have?
! Definition of success?

21. What Do You Want in a Work
Environment?
! Boss
! Co-Workers
! Pace
! Decision-making
! Values
! Culture
! Travel
! Community
! Family friendly
! Advancement
! Compensation

22. Prioritize what you want from
your work or next step
! Income
! Professional stimulation, accomplishment
! Knowledge, skills, experience for next step
! Relationships
! Purpose fulfillment or make a difference
! Discovery- who you are, what you want
! Lifestyle
! Security and Stability
! Status

23. Strategies related to job or role
choices
! Exploration or Experimentation
! Stepping Stone or paying dues
! Fit with lifestyle and commitments
! Getting back in
! Income and benefits-
! Stretch
! Can do v. want to do
! Fit with passion
! Dream

24. Other Considerations
1. How important is advancement and how
quickly?
2. How hard and much are you willing to work?
3. How do family considerations fit?
4. Are you willing to work on things that are not
what you love but position you well?
5. Are you willing to be paid less to get experience
or to get to do what you love?
6. Horizontal approach?

25. Considerations along your Journey
! Sequencing
! Paying your dues
! Multi-faceted roles
! Settings that enable self direction and combination
! Portfolio approach
! Centrality v. secondary or volunteer roles
! Different emphasis over-time

26. Lessons Learned
! Focus
! Relationships
! Put yourself in the flow
! Look at all things through
the lens of discovering or
advancing toward your
direction
! Be open and flexible
! Experiment
! Things and change take
longer
! Uncomfortable about to
grow
! Do a great job, get things
done
! Be outside the
organization
! Transferable skills
! Supportive partner
! Get things done
! Take action and
persevere

27. Developing Your Next Steps
! Hitch to a star or mentor
! Step up to opportunity
! CEO or Entrepreneur of your own career
! Follow the grants
! Be “on trend” and aligned with your
direction
! Affiliations matter
! Be authentic in your choices

28. Choose and Actively Pursue
Direction
! Direction (s)
! Intention
! Focus
! Tacking
! Goals and Action Plan

29. How do you know?
! Heightened feeling
! Connection
! Flow
! Ease
! Path and opportunities will develop
! Ego in check
! Happiness and satisfaction

30. Making Choices

31. Belief and Courage
! M= VXE
! Books, Tapes, CD’s
! Role Models
! Mentors
! Success

32. Natural Human Habits and Barriers
! Distrust inner wisdom, doubt
! Lack long term direction, plan or purpose
and want answers instantly (don’t assume
full responsibility for your own future)
! Self Sabotage
! Not sure how to get “unstuck”
! Wait for right circumstances- when, then
! Fear of change/uncertainty

33. Common Human Fears
! Being wrong
! Embarrassment
! Disappointing others
! Failure
! Risk and Uncertainty
! Loss
! Letting go
! Our own power

34. Lifelong Adjustment, Change
! Ongoing reflection and conscious choice
! Flexibility and perseverance
! Risk taking
! Reinvent and retool
! Network

35. Next Steps
! Work on the elements of the framework and
obstacles that are most relevant to you
! Develop strategies and action plan for priority
issues and goals
! Support you need and who can provide it
! Join My Health Career Navigator- http://
myhealthcareer.ning.com/

36. “If one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams and endeavors
to live the life imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common
hours”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

37. Action Planning
! Life-Career Planning Element: e.g.
exposure or specific career direction
! Current Strengths and Assets:
! Areas to Strengthen:
! Strategies I will use:
! Opportunities:

38. Action Plan
! What 3 actions will I take to move forward
in this area over the next 6 months?
! What is the time frame for each action to
be completed?
! Who will hold me accountable?
! Who will support me?