Traveling for your job: survival tips” How to handle person life issues (family leave, eldercare, illness, accidents, reoccurring illness) professionally Thinking about and preparing for mid-career and long-term career prospects The joys and expectations of working in a large company

1. Traveling for your job: survival tips
Mark Cathcart, Senior Distinguished Engineer,
Executive Director, Software Group, Dell Inc.
Fellow of the British Computer Society, CITP
February, 2013
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2. Where the hell is Matt?

3. Agenda
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Travelling for your job
How to handle personal
issues professionally
Thinking about and
preparing for mid-career and
long-term career prospects
The joys and expectations of
working in a large company
MAKE SURE CHANGE IS
SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS
FOR YOU, NOT TO YOU!

4. Travel, but not for too long. Don’t kid
yourself it’s glamorous.

5. TAKE CHARGE

6. Travel Programs

7. Expenses
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Where there is travel
There are receipts
Receipts = lost money
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Corporate credit cards
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“Find the raincoat”
DON’T GIVE THEM A REASON
TO FIRE YOU!

8. How to handle personal issues professionally

9. Thinking about and preparing for
mid-career and long-term career
prospects
Build your career as a pyramid
• Not as a ladder
You need to have a base of experience
• It’s a much more stable structure
Taking lateral moves
• It involves getting out of your comfort zone
Carol Bartz, President, CEO Yahoo! Inc.

10. The joys and expectations of
working in a large company