Getting Your Career Online
We’re always rushing here and there with our work, getting the jobs done that need to be, and please the powers that be. It’s a struggle, and we get there – eventually – but how happy do you feel in your job, really? Could there be a better fit for you out there? A stronger match for the real you, where you could add the most value to the world – and most importantly, to yourself, in doing so?
That’s the million dollar question. If only you had the space and structure to consider it properly….of course you would. But how would you, if you did have time?
The first thing to do is to step back, and take an objective view of all the things about you and your life so far that are, or should be, impacting on your career choice. So, what are these elements? The main elements people consider would be your skills, talents, experience, knowledge and qualifications – all the bits that appear on a good CV. However, fairly virtual items need to be captured, such as personality, values, interests and aspirations, which of course can be difficult to discern, and rarely appear on the CV. Psychometrics can be the answer here, and are easily accessed via career practitioners.
Secondly, you need to put all these pieces of the jigsaw together, and use it to extract clues on the best way forward career-wise – what type of work, in which environment, with what kind of people and managers, with which career progression options? Here, it can be a good idea to work with a career consultant who can help you gain insight into the possibilities – and generate potential career associations you mightn’t think of! The subject of ‘you’ is an exciting one to work on, but ‘you’ will be too close to it to gain the most circumspect view. A good career professional will assist you to overlay the world of work onto your own self-analysis, and guide you to draw sensible conclusions based on sound principles.
You will now discerned your best matched career future options, and will need to spend time assessing the market, finding out information on job/study/progression routes and their relative potential for your personal fit. When attractive opportunities present themselves, a logical decision making process using the work associations from your self-analysis, can be just the answer you need. Your career consultant can help you formulate and utilise this key tool.
Lastly, then, you just need to secure the job role or study placement. CV and interview techniques can be practised and developed to make sure your face provides selectors with the best fit for their requirements. Individual coaching services can be invaluable here, and is likely to provide you with that extra advantage to pip the competition to the post!
So that’s how – but now this is all available online, via Career Manager TM
Career Manager TM is a professional online career management system, which offers you the opportunity to manage your career online. It affords lifetime access to, and development of, your individual career data and direction via psychometric and checklist mechanisms. Personalised work requirements, individual career options and interactive career decision making tools are systematically developed as clear output. Professional career consultants are always on hand to assist, and offer private Consultancy, CV Development and Interview Preparation services online. Services are available individually or via convenient Career Manager TM packages.
Karen Gray April 2008
Karen Gray is a Director of CareerVision Ltd, developers of “Career Manager TM”, the online Professional Career Direction system. Now available atwww.careervision.ie and www.onlinecareermanager.com