VI.

You Are Your

Career
By: Roel B. Cababao
• What is a career?
• A career is a series of jobs that a person has in a particular area of work,
usually involving more responsibility as time passes.
• A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of
their life.
• Ex.
Working as a doctor, lawyer, teacher, carpenter, veterinary assistant, electrician,
and cashier, ect.
She is now concentrate on a career as doctor.
Dennis had recently begun a successful career conducting opera.
• At the beginning of your career, your contribution to your employer
depends on your own performance; that's all you're responsible for.
• But on becoming a manager, you are responsible for a whole group.
• Throughout your career you'll need to lead teams effectively, as well as
influence people over whom you have no authority; thus the human skills
are especially important.
• Businesspeople often talk about emotional intelligence, or "EQ"—the
skills of understanding yourself, managing yourself, and dealing
effectively with others.
• Build relationships
• Reduce team stress
• Defuse conflict and improve job satisfaction.
• Be Both a Specialist and a Generalist
• Seek to become a specialist: you should be an expert in something. This
will give you specific skills that help you provide a concrete,
identifiable value to your firm and to customers.
• Example:
A doctor who focuses on care of the heart is an example of a heart specialist.
• Over time, you should learn to be a generalist, knowing enough about a
variety of business disciplines so that you can think strategically and
work with different perspectives.
• You have a wider understanding of different things that can help you to
make a better decisions. Also, generalist people can visualize the big
picture and think out-of-the-box.
• Big picture means – the overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
• Be Self-Reliant
• To be self-reliant means to take full responsibility for yourself, your actions,
and your career.
• You cannot count on your boss or your company to take care of you.
• You find new ways to make your overall performance better. Take
responsibility for change; be an innovator.
• You can do things differently or you can create things that have never been
before.
• Don’t just do your work and wait for orders; look for opportunities to
contribute in new ways, to develop new products and processes, and to
generate constructive change that strengthens the company and benefits
customers and colleagues.
 • To develop your full potential, assess yourself, including your interests, aptitudes, and
personal character strength.

• Be Connected
• Being connected means having many good working relationships and
interpersonal contacts and being a team player with strong interpersonal
skills.
• Interpersonal skills are the skills required to effectively communicate,
interact, and work with individuals and groups.
• For example, those who want to become partners in professional service
organizations like accounting, advertising, and consulting firms strive
constantly to build a network of contacts.
• Building a network of contacts is expanding your contacts and can open
doors to new opportunities for business, career advancement, and personal
growth.
 • Their “connectedness” goal is to work not only with lots of clients but also with half
dozen or more senior partners.
• Senior Partners is a member of a group of people, companies, countries, etc. that has
more power and influence than the other members.
• Social capital is the goodwill stemming from your social relationships, and it can be
mobilized on your behalf. It aids career success, compensation, employment, team
effectiveness, successful entrepreneurship, and relationships with suppliers and other
outsiders.

ACTIVELY MANAGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH

YOUR ORGANIZATION
There are two (2) possible relationships
• You as a passive employee
• You as an active contributor in a productive relationship
• You as a passive employee – one in which you view yourself as an
employee and passively expect your employer to tell you what to do and
give you pay and benefits. Your employer is in charge, and you are a
passive recipient of its actions. Your contributions are likely to be
adequate but minimal – you won’t make the added contributions that
strengthen your organizations.
EMPLOYER

YOU
• You as an active contributor in a productive relationship - is a two-
way relationship in which you and your organization both benefit from
one another. The mindset is different: instead of doing what you are told,
you think about how you can contribute and you act accordingly. To the
extent that your organization values your contributions, you are likely to
benefit in return by receiving full and fair rewards, support for further
personal development, and a more gratifying work environment.

YOU YOUR ORGANIZATION