Planning your Professional Career
Presentation by Ravi Edirisinghe
Planning your Education
•Focus
•Accumulation
•Plan for targets along time
•Paper qualifications is not the only education
Getting in to Job Market
•How do I stand out from the rest ?
•Why would this company pick my CV ?
•What is My value addition to the company ?
•Will I be satisfied?
Preparing your CV
Important
•Start with a summary
•List your core competency first
•List the other competencies in order of priority
•Read the CV in the eyes of the recipient
Managing Work Life
Managing
- Work Loads
- People
Managing Work Loads
•List “things to do” and strike off completed jobs
•Do difficult things first
•Prioritize things to do
•Learn to say “No”
•Review “things to do list” every evening
•Carry out a 10 Minute review every Friday
Managing People
Managing conflicts between Subordinates,
colleagues and superiors
Identify Personally Types – Type A / B
Be transparent
Be consistent
Don’t be preconceived
Respect others
Appreciate in public blame in private
Do simple things to please others
Conflicts and performance
H
Level of
performance
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Level of conflict
H
Type A Personality
A person with a Type A personality is “aggressively
involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more
and more in less and less time, and, is required to do so,
against the opposing efforts of other things or other
persons”.
In the Sri Lankan culture, such characteristics tend to be
highly prized and positively associated with ambition.
Type A’s
•Are always moving, walking, and eating rapidly
•Feel impatient with the rate at which most events take
place
•Strive to think or do two or more things at once
•Cannot cope with leisure time
•Obsessed with numbers, measuring their success in
terms of how many or how much of everything they
acquire.
Type B Personality
In contrast to the Type A personality is the Type B, who
is exactly opposite. Type B’s are “rarely harried by the
desire to obtain a wildly increasing number of things or
participate in an endless growing series of events in an
ever-decreasing amount of time”.
Type B’s
•Never suffer from a sense of time urgency with its
accompanying impatience
•Feel no need to display or discuss either their
achievements or accomplishments unless such
exposure is demanded by the situation
•Play for fun and relaxation, rather than to exhibit their
superiority at any cost
•Can relax without guilt.
Casual about
appointments
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2
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4
5
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8
Never late
Not competitive
1
2
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5
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8
Very competitive
Never feel
rushed
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Always feel
rushed
Take things one
at a time
Slow doing
things
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2
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8
Try to do many
things at once
Fast (eating,
walking, etc.)
Express feelings
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2
3
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6
7
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"Sit on" feelings
Many interests
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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Few interests
outside work
Points structure
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=3 Points
=6 Points
=9 Points
=12 Points
=15 Points
=18 Points
=21 Points
=24 Points
Analysis
120 or more points
106-119 Points
100-105
90-99
Less than 90
= A+
=A
=A
= B+
=B
Personality Traits
Myers –Briggs Indicator
•Extrovert (E)
•Sensing (S)
•Thinking (T)
•Perceiving (P)
or
or
or
or
Introvert (I)
Intuitive (N)
Feeling (F)
Judging (J)
Managing Customers
Customer is important but not always correct
Perception is really
Be open and transparent with the customers
Learn to respect customers
Listen , Understand , Explain
Managing Customers
Managing Work Life Balance
Triangle of Work, Family and Society
Questions?