{"id":209,"date":"2019-07-15T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=209"},"modified":"2024-04-25T01:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T01:30:34","slug":"career-management","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/chapter\/career-management\/","title":{"raw":"Career Management","rendered":"Career Management"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Discuss various approaches to career management<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-291\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4056\/2019\/07\/18200323\/bulbs-3702025_960_720-300x300.png\" alt=\"A colorful illustration on a black background shows a collection of images including a coffee mug, light bulbs, graphs, a golden trophy, a bullseye target with an arrow in the middle, a paperclip, and many more items.\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/>Although business\u2019 support of employee\u2019s career management is a best practice back by performance data, each individual is ultimately responsible for his or her own career management. As Deloitte vice chairman and author Cathy Benko phrases it, each of us is the CEO of our own careers.\u00a0What that means is that each of us is responsible for \u201censuring the relevance of our skills and the continued cultivation of our careers.\u201d[footnote]Harrell, Eben. \"<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/09\/the-solution-to-the-skills-gap-could-already-be-inside-your-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside of Your Company<\/a>.\" Harvard Business Review. September 27, 2016. Accessed July 18, 2019.[\/footnote] To ensure continued skills relevance, Benko recommends \u201cmarking skills to market;\u201d specifically, scanning job posting sites on a periodic basis to determine what skills are in demand and to identify emerging skills. To the career cultivation point, she recommends thinking in terms of \u201ccareer option value\u201d\u2014that is, continuously adding to your portfolio of transferable skills and experiences to increase your market value and expand your career options. In an interview with Harvard Business Review, Benko, explains that \u201cThe corporate ladder approach to career development has given way to a digital-age corporate \u201clattice,\u201d a concept she and her co-author develop in <em>The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance In the Changing World of Work<\/em>. In summary, in a lattice world, continual professional reinvention needs to be a core competency.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-293\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4056\/2019\/07\/18201333\/student-849822_960_720-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is sitting in front of a laptop working. There is a pad of paper in the foreground with notes and a yellow sticky note. \" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/>For perspective on a lattice career, consider Zainab Ghadiyali\u2019s path, described in a First Round Review interview titled \u201cThe Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career.\u201d[footnote]\"<a href=\"https:\/\/firstround.com\/review\/the-secrets-to-designing-a-curiosity-driven-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career.<\/a>\" First Round Review. Accessed July 18, 2019.[\/footnote]\u00a0The interview opens with the observation that \u201cWhile her recent resume is impressive \u2014 spanning a rise up the engineering ranks at Facebook, her current role as a Product Lead at Airbnb, and a side hustle as the co-founder of Wogrammer \u2014 the inclines and contours of her unlikely path to Silicon Valley are far more remarkable, delineating the cartography of an extraordinary career.\u201d\u00a0Ghadiyali\u2019s journey took her from her hometown of Mumbai to South Carolina, Berlin, Peru, Nicaragua and, ultimately, Silicon Valley. Ghadiyali reflects that \u201cAcross all of my life experiences, I was just hungry to learn.\u201d\u00a0The interviewer notes that while many people are inspired by learning, it can be hard to protect that spirit of curiosity as career pressures intensify. Here are a few of the strategies Ghadiyali used to sustain her creative spark:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Leverage a creative\u2014not reactive\u2014mindset to overcome uncertainty.<\/strong> Ghadiyali explains that \u201cThe reactive mindset is driven by fear,\u201d [which] \u201cleads you down a spiral of anxiety, in which you focus on all the reasons why you can\u2019t do something. By contrast, the creative mindset is driven by possibility. The creative mindset inspires curiosity and passion, which leads to action.\u201d<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Picture your career as a painting, not a ladder.<\/strong> To quote Ghadiyali: \u201cWhen we visualize a career ladder, we start putting ourselves in a box. Step back and see the painting \u2014 every experience adds a brushstroke to a bigger picture.\u201d<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>To unlock omnidirectional growth, focus on learning.<\/strong> \u201cAt every career crossroads, I ask myself the same two high-level questions: \u2018What am I excited to learn next? What\u2019s the next level of learning I want to reach?\u2019\u201d<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Leap before you\u2019re ready\u2014but be prepared to catch up.<\/strong> Ghadiyali observes that \u201cA risk won\u2019t actually move you forward unless it\u2019s followed by a dedication to progress.\u201d<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nHer final recommendation, now that she\u2019s doing the hiring: \u201cHire for hunger, not a checklist of qualifications.\u201d\r\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\r\n<h3>PRactice Question<\/h3>\r\nhttps:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/c28d509c-6081-4d0f-96f2-060c2962bdfe\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3>Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss various approaches to career management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-291\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4056\/2019\/07\/18200323\/bulbs-3702025_960_720-300x300.png\" alt=\"A colorful illustration on a black background shows a collection of images including a coffee mug, light bulbs, graphs, a golden trophy, a bullseye target with an arrow in the middle, a paperclip, and many more items.\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/>Although business\u2019 support of employee\u2019s career management is a best practice back by performance data, each individual is ultimately responsible for his or her own career management. As Deloitte vice chairman and author Cathy Benko phrases it, each of us is the CEO of our own careers.\u00a0What that means is that each of us is responsible for \u201censuring the relevance of our skills and the continued cultivation of our careers.\u201d<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Harrell, Eben. &quot;The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside of Your Company.&quot; Harvard Business Review. September 27, 2016. Accessed July 18, 2019.\" id=\"return-footnote-209-1\" href=\"#footnote-209-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a> To ensure continued skills relevance, Benko recommends \u201cmarking skills to market;\u201d specifically, scanning job posting sites on a periodic basis to determine what skills are in demand and to identify emerging skills. To the career cultivation point, she recommends thinking in terms of \u201ccareer option value\u201d\u2014that is, continuously adding to your portfolio of transferable skills and experiences to increase your market value and expand your career options. In an interview with Harvard Business Review, Benko, explains that \u201cThe corporate ladder approach to career development has given way to a digital-age corporate \u201clattice,\u201d a concept she and her co-author develop in <em>The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance In the Changing World of Work<\/em>. In summary, in a lattice world, continual professional reinvention needs to be a core competency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-293\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4056\/2019\/07\/18201333\/student-849822_960_720-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is sitting in front of a laptop working. There is a pad of paper in the foreground with notes and a yellow sticky note.\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/>For perspective on a lattice career, consider Zainab Ghadiyali\u2019s path, described in a First Round Review interview titled \u201cThe Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career.\u201d<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"&quot;The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career.&quot; First Round Review. Accessed July 18, 2019.\" id=\"return-footnote-209-2\" href=\"#footnote-209-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0The interview opens with the observation that \u201cWhile her recent resume is impressive \u2014 spanning a rise up the engineering ranks at Facebook, her current role as a Product Lead at Airbnb, and a side hustle as the co-founder of Wogrammer \u2014 the inclines and contours of her unlikely path to Silicon Valley are far more remarkable, delineating the cartography of an extraordinary career.\u201d\u00a0Ghadiyali\u2019s journey took her from her hometown of Mumbai to South Carolina, Berlin, Peru, Nicaragua and, ultimately, Silicon Valley. Ghadiyali reflects that \u201cAcross all of my life experiences, I was just hungry to learn.\u201d\u00a0The interviewer notes that while many people are inspired by learning, it can be hard to protect that spirit of curiosity as career pressures intensify. Here are a few of the strategies Ghadiyali used to sustain her creative spark:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Leverage a creative\u2014not reactive\u2014mindset to overcome uncertainty.<\/strong> Ghadiyali explains that \u201cThe reactive mindset is driven by fear,\u201d [which] \u201cleads you down a spiral of anxiety, in which you focus on all the reasons why you can\u2019t do something. By contrast, the creative mindset is driven by possibility. The creative mindset inspires curiosity and passion, which leads to action.\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Picture your career as a painting, not a ladder.<\/strong> To quote Ghadiyali: \u201cWhen we visualize a career ladder, we start putting ourselves in a box. Step back and see the painting \u2014 every experience adds a brushstroke to a bigger picture.\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>To unlock omnidirectional growth, focus on learning.<\/strong> \u201cAt every career crossroads, I ask myself the same two high-level questions: \u2018What am I excited to learn next? What\u2019s the next level of learning I want to reach?\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Leap before you\u2019re ready\u2014but be prepared to catch up.<\/strong> Ghadiyali observes that \u201cA risk won\u2019t actually move you forward unless it\u2019s followed by a dedication to progress.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Her final recommendation, now that she\u2019s doing the hiring: \u201cHire for hunger, not a checklist of qualifications.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\n<h3>PRactice Question<\/h3>\n<p>\t<iframe id=\"assessment_practice_c28d509c-6081-4d0f-96f2-060c2962bdfe\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/c28d509c-6081-4d0f-96f2-060c2962bdfe?iframe_resize_id=assessment_practice_id_c28d509c-6081-4d0f-96f2-060c2962bdfe\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;width:100%;height:100%;min-height:300px;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-209\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Career Management. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Nina Burokas. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Untitled. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: rawpixel. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pixabay. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/bulbs-ideas-lighting-objects-3702025\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/bulbs-ideas-lighting-objects-3702025\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Pixabay License<\/li><li>Untitled. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: StartupStockPhotos. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pixabay. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/student-typing-keyboard-text-woman-849822\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/student-typing-keyboard-text-woman-849822\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Pixabay License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section><hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-209-1\">Harrell, Eben. \"<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/09\/the-solution-to-the-skills-gap-could-already-be-inside-your-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside of Your Company<\/a>.\" Harvard Business Review. September 27, 2016. Accessed July 18, 2019. <a href=\"#return-footnote-209-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-209-2\">\"<a href=\"https:\/\/firstround.com\/review\/the-secrets-to-designing-a-curiosity-driven-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career.<\/a>\" First Round Review. 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