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Plan B:X
Everyone needs one!
Ousmane’s 4-minute motivations
Fellow Jack Kent Cooke ScholarWho is Ousmane Kabre?
• Conservation?
• Research?
• Government?
• Renewables?
• Policy?
• Aquaculture?
Planning!
What does your future hold?
“I thought I wanted a career… turns out I just wanted a
pay check to buy books.”
Other?
Always, always have a contingency plan,
but believe in and work your toward your
primary plan…
But don't plan to fail
by failing to plan!
Planning is key & starts NOW!
Decisions, decisions…
3, 5, 10 year plans
• Nearly end of 1st year (!!!) – PANIC??
• 3 year plan includes up to 6 months post-
graduation
• Milk Round (www.milkround.com)
The three choices post-university:
• Academia
• The world of work
• Something else…
Three Year Plan
1. Become a Student Rep
2. Join a sports team
3. Volunteer – what skills do you want to
develop?
4. Peer Mentoring
(PALS Leaders – recruiting soon!)
5. Drama, music & the performing arts
http://advice.milkround.com/top-5-extra-curricular-activities-to-improve-your-cv
Top 5 extra-curricular activities to improve your CV!
• Create a 5 year plan to keep you inspired and
motivated.
• It’s a balance of overarching goals and dreams & the nitty gritty details.
− What do you want your life to look like?
− How can you live these goals in the next five years? Some examples
could be: start a business, travel to three different countries, or
decrease stress.
− What do you wish were different about your life now?
− What do you want to be different in five years?
− What goals/milestones do you want to reach?
− What experiences do you want to have?
Five Year Plan
Ten Year Plan…
What colour is my parachute?
• What do you most
love to do?
• Where do you most
love to do it?
• How do you find
such a job and
persuade those
employers to hire
you?
• Improves self-confidence
• Prioritises life – direction & purpose!
• Prevents distraction – guides
decision making and helps with time
management
• Fosters & energises growth –spend
time looking through the windscreen
of life rather than the rear-view
mirror
• Gives a sense of accomplishment
Making Plans & Setting Goals
Why the path to success is not a straight line
Andrew Davies
TEDx Plymouth University, 25/10/14
Interesting Reads & Resources…
• Dr Josh Tewksbury (former University of Washington
academic – now Director of the WWF Luc Hoffmann
Institute): http://www.conservation-
careers.com/tackling-big-conservation-questions-dr-
josh-tewksbury/
• Paths to Becoming a Wildlifer:
http://wildlife.org/paths-to-becoming-a-wildlifer/
• OceanCareers.com is a (US) nationwide project
created to foster scientists’ involvement in ocean
science education.
• Marine Scientist Prospects
Interesting Reads & Resources…
• Breaking into the environmental sector: Tips from graduates who made it
• Environment, Biodiversity & Wildlife Management Careers: http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/Environment.htm
• Environment Jobs: http://www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs
• Conservation Careers (lots of advice):http://www.conservation-careers.com/
• GradSouthwest:http://www.gradsouthwest.com/
Make it good!
70,000 hours9,333 days
1,866 weeks
Taking control of your careerAim
• Help you to develop systematic approaches to your career planning
Learning outcomes
• Understand how self-awareness contributes to job satisfaction
• Be aware of some of the online resources to help you with your career exploration
• Start to plan your next steps to enhance your career outcomes
Career Management
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Decision making (matching you with the best opportunities)
Awareness of opportunities(occupations, employers, etc.)
Skills for making the transition (CV writing, interview skills, etc.)
Awareness about yourself (your aptitudes, skills, etc.)
Career Management
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Decision making (matching you with the best opportunities)
Awareness of opportunities(occupations, employers, etc.)
Skills for making the transition (CV writing, interview skills, etc.)
Awareness about yourself (your aptitudes, skills, etc.)
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Career Management
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RDecision making (matching you with the best opportunities)
Awareness of opportunities(occupations, employers, etc.)
Skills for making the transition (CV writing, interview skills, etc.)
Awareness about yourself (your aptitudes, skills, etc.)
Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
How do I get there?
Implementing my plans
Improving my plans
SCareer Management Cycle
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Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
How do I get there?
Implementing my plans
Improving my plans
Career Management Cycle
Throughout course
Opportunity Awareness
• What jobs exist?
• Who is recruiting people
like you?
• What kinds of career
pathways do people
follow?
• What qualifications and
experience are required?
• What have other people in
your discipline done?
Employed graduates: destination
examplesWhat
• Area Manager
• Marine Biologist
• Marine Biology Technician
• Fish Health Specialist
• Research Assistant (Isles of Scilly Fisheries)
• Student Achievement Officer for Science
• Support Biologist/Diver
• Seismic Navigation Operator
• Diving Instructor
• Website tester
• University Outreach Administrator
Who
• Aldi
• National Marine Aquarium
• Plymouth Diving Centre
• Scottish Sea Farms
• Isles of Scilly Inshore Fisheries
• Falmouth Aquarium
• Devon Wildlife Trust
Career options with your degree:
resources
Career options with your degree:
resources
Where’s my degree?!
Career options with your degree:
resources
Career options with your degree:
resources
Career options with your degree:
resources
People from your course: LinkedIn!
Self-awareness....?
Self-awareness
Values and motivations
Your talents and strengths
Skills, knowledge and expertise
Personality type
Decision-making
Purpose of the role: main outcomes of the work?
Role: main responsibilities.
Organisation: Type, culture, size
Career motivation: Your drivers
Environment
Sector: Don’t stop at one.
Skills: what are you good at? What is needed?
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Values and motivations: your
career anchors
Technical competence
• Want recognition for being the best at what they do
• Like challenges
Managerial competence
• Love leading and influencing, problem-solving and responsibility
• Don’t want to specialise/get bogged down with the detail
Autonomy and independence
• Working alone to own timetable (and rules).
• Define own tasks, schedules and procedures
Security/stability
Averse to risk and change
Looking for predictability or job for life
Entrepreneurial/creative
• Inventing creative solutions, or products and run their own work schedule
• Like dealing with people and see wealth as a sign of success
Service/dedication to a cause
• Helping others and giving back to society
Pure challenge
• constantly seeking a challenge and easily bored
Lifestyle
Focus is on life as a whole and try to integrate work and life :
Windmills Online Interactive
Careers using skills and interests
• Over 60% graduate jobs
open to graduates of any
degree
• On-line career assessment
packages e.g. Prospects,
Targetjobs, icould.
• What do graduates do?
Higher Education Careers
Services Unit
Decision-making• Which occupations fit
with your Career Anchors?
• Does it give the prospect of satisfying your interest, values, skills and opportunities?
• Does it fit with your personal circumstances?
Speak to people• Campus talks and
workshops
• Friends and family:
– What they think you're good at
– Jobs they are familiar with,
particularly about their own
careers if they are in work.
– May also know about the work
of colleagues or other friends.
– Even if they can't give you a
job, they may know who to
contact.
Experience it first hand
• Test your ideas with work
experience
• Shadowing
• Summer placement
• Internships
• Placement year
– Placements team
• Volunteer
Career paths are changing...
“There is no such thing as a career path any more only crazy paving. And you have to lay that yourself”.
Barrie Hopson, Portfolio Careers
Useful resources
• www.hecsu.ac.uk/current_projects_what_d
o_graduates_do.htm
• www.imarest.org/membership/education-
careers/careers-in-the-marine-profession
• www.prospects.ac.uk
• www.studentladder.co.uk/
• https://targetjobs.co.uk/careers-advice