Bite-Size
Medical Research Council – Career Management
Welcome
Anita Edmonds – Penna
Workshop Objectives
• To encourage more ownership and activism around career development
• To be more aware of own key motivators, values and drivers at work
• To allow time to think about careers paths & directions to date and future options
• To think about how you can present your CV as achievement based
• To consider future options
• Commitments
Roadmap
Introductions,
and
expectations
Career Anchors
Career Activism
Exploring &
Evaluating
Options & paths
Achievement
based CVs &
STAR model
Action
Planning &
Close
Career Development Framework
Career Activism
A career is “the sequence of employment-related positions, roles, activities and experience
encountered by a person during their lifetime”. Increasingly as individuals, we are being
required to take more control of managing our own careers.
Career Activist
Career Passivist
A person who takes direct action to achieve an end
A person who adopts a policy of vigorous action in a
cause
Energetic, diligent, industrious
A person who is not active or does not participate
perceptibly in an activity, organisation
A person who is unresisting and receptive to
external forces
A person offering no opposition
Not active, inert, submissive
Career + Activist = take control of my path
through employment and influence direction,
events and forces
Career + Passivist = let my path through
employment drift and be influenced by external
events and forces
The attributes of a Career Activist:
Adaptability, Tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty, Self-management, Versatility, Resilience, Creativity
Pre work Career Activism quiz …..
Find a buddy for 5 minutes of co-coaching each and
pick one of your answers that you circled either RED
or AMBER that YOU ARE HAPPY TO SHARE!
 Which statement have you chosen and what do you need
to do to move from Red to Amber or Amber to Green?
 What will the pay-off or upside be for getting there?
 How might you “self-sabotage” getting there?
Career Anchors Questionnaire
Understanding Your Individual Anchors
Career Anchors
 Your perception of your own areas of competence,
motivators and values
 Sense of ‘the real me’
 Consider highest & lowest scores against jobs you’ve
enjoyed most and least.
 How can you make your current role fit your Career
Anchor profile?
 What will you do?
Five career paths
 Horizontal
 Moving sideways
 Vertical
 Moving up
 Cyclical
 Plateau/Steady State
 Developing where you are
 Spiral or Helter Skelter
 Moving sideways
Six directions to achieve career paths
 Promotion (moving up)
 Enrichment/Broadening role
(adding tasks and responsibilities to current role)
 Deepening (staying put to achieve depth and mastery in
role)
 Transfer (moving out of department or function or unit or
division, can include redeployment)
 Rotation (moving around – assignment, project,
secondment)
 Exiting (resigning, redundancy, retirement)
Your paths & directions to date
 Own Career Paths and Directions?
 Any patterns emerging?
 Focus on just one type?
 Which directions link most to your own changes or
moves in career?
Career Options – main choices
Same Job,
Same Job
Same area of Different area
the business of the
business
Different Job,
Same area of
the business
Different Job,
Different area
of the business
Consider….
What do you need to know
about the job?
What do you need to know
about the other areas of the
business?
What more do you need to
know about it?
What attracts you to
it/them?
What attracts you to it?
What assumptions could
you challenge?
Who could answer your
questions?
Who could you ask?
What deters you?
What deters you?
CV’s – Achievement Focus
STAR Model (Situation, Task, Actions, Results)
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Grant applications
Leadership experience
Management experience
Journal writing
Sucesses
Options
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Academia
Staying in science
Journalism
Corporate roles
Policy making
Editor
Advisors to the not for profit sector/charities
Investment companies – manager of research
portfolio
Evaluating Options
 List all the relevant
factors/attributes
 Compare scores for each
option
 Give each a weighting
 Evaluate whether any scores
for each factor could be
improved
 Take current role as a control
 Assign score out of 10 for
each factor
 Multiply by weighting value
 Also apply ‘gut’ feel for
preference
 Challenge own ‘de-selection
logic’
 Think flexibly about what’s
possible
 Use buddy to help find
solutions
 Discuss with line manager
Setting Career Goals
 Short term – 6 months
 Medium term – 12- 18
months
 Longer term – in 3 years
 SMARTER goals (Specific,
measurable, achievable,
realistic, timely, engaging
and reviewed)
 Prepare for ‘Career
Discussion’ with buddy
 Decide what time period you
want to focus on
 Plan for discussion with
mentor/line manager
 What do you commit to
today?
Name:
6 mths
and
beyond
NOW
My
Commitment
Any questions?
Any final thoughts / questions?