1. Principle No.1
It is important to
value your offer
Be clear and
specific about
your strength and
motivations
2. Principle No. 2 – Find outlets to expose the talents you have
“People don’t change that
much. Don’t waste time
trying to put in what was left
out.
Try to draw out what was left
in. That is hard enough.”
Source: "First break all the Rules, what
great managers do differently"
by Buckingham and Coffman.
3. Principle No. 3 – Reflect but ultimately action trumps reflection
“To know oneself, one should
assert oneself. Psychology
is action, not thinking
about oneself. We
continue to shape our
personality all our life. If
we knew ourselves
perfectly, we should die.”
Albert Camus
4. Principle No. 4 – Who is your career manager? You are!
“Chance favours the
prepared mind.”
Louis Pasteur
“We must believe in
luck. For how else can
we explain the
success of those we
don't like?”
Jean Cocteau
5. Principle 5 – It is messy. Roll with it.
“We oscillate between ‘holding on’ and ‘letting go’,
between our desire to rigidly clutch the past and the
impulse to rush exuberantly into the future.”
Herminia Ibarra
6. Some food for
thought
The Transformative Power of a Personal Project
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/01/14/ji
The Power of Introverts (3 links)
http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_i
http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/
Animated version of talk
The Secret of Success creatively
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/22/ir
10 Inspirational quotes from Herminia Ibarra's
http://solutionfocusedchange.blogspot.ie/2009/08/
10-inspirational-quotes-from-herminia.html
Read: “Working Identity on the First-Act-Then-Think
Change Strategy”
7. Actions to consider
1. Develop your CV (it can be creative but do a
bog standard one first)
http://www.tempsahead.com/tips-for-jobseekers/10-creative-slideshare-visualresumes/
2. Develop a strong Linkedin Profile (after the
CV)
The start-up of you (linked tips on 2)
1.http://www.slideshare.net/reidhoffman/startup
-of-you-visual-summary
2. http://www.thestartupofyou.com/
Notas del editor
A challenge across all the career options. A muscle to build in a range of different ways.
By far the biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is to delay taking the first step until they have settled on a destination. (Herminia Ibarra)
Catching a career wave means paddling a long time to be positioned even when the outcome is not clear. The challenge is to back oneself during that phase when the fruits of one’s labour are not entirely clear.
By far the biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is to delay taking the first step until they have settled on a destination.
We oscillate between ‘holding on’ and ‘letting go’, between our desire to rigidly clutch the past and the impulse to rush exuberantly into the future.
“Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.” ~Dalai Lama