Career Factors Results

for
Manish Sharma
30 Apr 2019

The Career Factors exercise identifies and acknowledges five core career dimensions –
Career Stage, Role Stage, Mobility, Career Track, and Pace - and reflects how your career
needs and priorities change over your work life.
  Career Stage
This dimension identifies current career stage which progresses from early career stage to
growth and establishment and then mastery or late stage career phases. This is not
necessarily age-related as individuals may have significantly changed career focus over
their lifetime and may be at an early stage at a later age in life.

Results
Early/Growth Career Stage
ESTABLISHMENT Your responses match with those
who are new to their field and
GROWTH MASTERY still in a time of great learning.
Early & Growth stage individuals tend
to be relatively new to the workforce,
generally with under 5 years working
EARLY Career Stage LATE
experience. This is a time of a steep
learning curve when you can be
focusing on finding your way around
the organization, understanding the
intricacies of business and
organizations, and beginning to
understand organizational policies
both formal and informal. While
individuals can often be eager for
additional responsibility and career
acceleration at this time, it is
important to ensure you have
mastered the key skills of your
chosen path before moving too
quickly. This is a time for networking,
building many lateral relationships
and ensuring you are maximizing
your contribution and adding value
where you can. It is important to
ensure that your contributions and
input get the right kind of visibility.
Finding a mentor or sounding board
who is just a few steps ahead of you
can be very beneficial at this stage of
career.
  Role Stage
This section describes your current role status. While time-related, this stage also takes
into consideration role-learning needs and readiness for additional responsibilities.

Results
Contributor Phase
CONTRIBUTOR Your responses indicate you are
in a time of confidence in your
current role, understanding your
responsibilities with the ability to
deliver to role requirements.
ENTRY Role Stage MASTERY Characteristics of the contributor
phase include a sense of confidence
about your role - knowing what
information you need and where to
get it from. You probably also have
experience to be able to make
decisions and also know when you
need to consult others. If you have
scored in the higher end of the
contributor phase it can be a good
time to start thinking about what
capabilities, skills and contacts you
need for your next opportunity.
Putting your hand up for projects or
stretch assignments where you can
be challenged and learn additional
skills can be a very useful stepping
stone to further opportunities.
  Career Mobility
Career mobility preferences are recorded here, in terms of flexibility and preference for
location, and hours of work.

Results
High Mobility
Your responses indicate you are
highly mobile and flexible as to
location of work at this stage of
your career.
You are the prototype of the career
LOW HIGH agile employee and appear to be
Career Mobility
open to opportunities in many
locations. You have profiled as a
highly career-agile individual with a
willingness and openness to working
away from your current home base.
You may be open to work that
requires travel as well.

Your preferences for working Flexible work patterns that appeal to

remotely include: you include:
- Project opportunities

- Short-term stretch assignments

 Career Track
This dimension records your current preferences related to career track: between an
expert-career track or a leadership-career track. This dimension also measures the desire
for leadership scope in terms of both seniority and breadth of role.
 Results
Expert Track with Leadership
Your results indicate that a
Subject Matter Expert role
appeals but with some
supervisory or leadership
EXPERT Career Track LEADER responsibilities.
People who score in this range
probably enjoy having some technical
expertise but also enjoy coaching and
leading a small to medium sized
team.
 🚲 Career Pace
This section identifies your current preference for rate of career development and desire
for additional career learning and responsibilities.

Results
Accelerate
A preference for accelerating
your career has been indicated
from your responses and you
may be keen to participate in
activities that will "fast-track"
your career.
DECELERATE Career Pace ACCELERATE
People with responses similar to
yours tend to be prepared to invest
additional time and effort into
progressing their career. You have
profiled as highly motivated, hungry
for opportunity and as prepared to
invest your own time and effort into
growing your career opportunities,
rather than sitting back and waiting
for opportunities. You profile as keen
to actively create opportunity.

Your interest in taking on additional The kinds of learning opportunities

learning opportunities in your own that most appeal to you include:
time was:
- Externally run training programs
- Very interested
- Internally run formal training programs

- Job shadowing

- Online learning modules

- Project assignments

Finally, what else is important to your “career-life fit?” Make some notes below in
your own words.

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 Career Factors Reflection
The Career Factors Exercise is designed to help individuals think about their current
career situation and to assist organizations in their capability planning. Many people are
choosing to either accelerate or decelerate their careers depending on their career stage,
age, life commitments and preferred career direction e.g. expert or leader path.

The Career Factors Indicator reflects and records preferences in a number of areas. There are no right
or wrong answers or results, and higher scores are not any better than lower scores. It merely reflects
current individual preferences which will change through various stages of life. The purpose of this
Indicator is to help you to think about your current work preferences and in particular, your interest in
accelerating or fast-tracking your career at present. It may be that "career acceleration" is not right for
you just now. This report is intended to facilitate a productive and open discussion with you and your
manager, mentor or coach about current or future career options.

Next Steps
The Career Factors Exercise helps you to understand your current career wants and
needs. These will prompt different actions based on your result. For example, if you
are Accelerating, you may wish to talk to your manager about gaining a stretch project
opportunity. If your result was Decelerate, you may wish to work with your manager on
delegating some responsibilities. Review your outputs and record two actions now for
areas that stand out for you.

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Reflecting on your acceleration needs, Considering your role stage, what is an
what might be an action that can support action you can take that supports you to
you with this area? maximize this stage?

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