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 / BBe transparentBe consistent Don’t be preconceivedRespect othersAppreciate in public blame in private Do simple things to please others

Conflicts and performance

Level ofperformance

Level of conflict

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L

H

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

Never late

Not competitive Very competitive

Never feel rushed

Always feel rushed

Take things one at a time

Try to do many things at once

Slow doing things

Fast (eating, walking, etc.)

Express feelings "Sit on" feelings

Many interestsFew interests outside work

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Points structure

1 =3 Points2 =6 Points3 =9 Points4 =12 Points5 =15 Points6 =18 Points7 =21 Points8 =24 Points

Analysis

120 or more points = A+ 106-119 Points = A100-105 = A90-99 = B+Less than 90 = B

Personality Traits

Myers –Briggs Indicator

•Extrovert (E) or Introvert (I)•Sensing (S) or Intuitive (N)•Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)•Perceiving (P) or Judging (J)

Managing Customers

Customer is important but not always correctPerception is really Be open and transparent with the customersLearn to respect customersListen , Understand , Explain

Managing Customers

Managing Work Life Balance

Triangle of Work, Family and Society

Questions?