What’s Next?Career Strategies in the Age of Chaos & Anxiety

Presented by Rob Straby

~ Our Agenda ~

• Career challenges

• The 4 elements

• Lana’s story

• Integration

• Next Steps

Career Challenges

What are your experiences?

• Find a partner• Discuss career challenges that are

affecting you or your clients • Share your top 3 ideas with the group

Theoretical Underpinnings

Narrative

Social NetworksPersonal agency

The 4 Elements of Your Career

PassionsTalents

Markets Relationships

Lana’s Talents

Develop creative ideas, take initiative & engage others

Communicate clearly & articulately in all mediums

Project management, bringing ideas to action

Lana’s Passions

Engaging people in change

Environmental sustainability

Creativity & new ideas

Identifying Talents & Passions

• You can understand your talents and passions by reviewing stories about your past accomplishments

• These can be significant experiences you have had in your life where you were the main actor in a life event

Lana’s Stories

• Helping to organize C-Day Fill the Hill with 350.org

• Working on electricity audit impact study

• Being an orientation leader @ university

• Traveling through Europe

Lana’s Feedback

• “I remember being really floored by how you listened to my 10 life stories and then sent me back 2 pages of skills - when you are unemployed its really difficult to recall your skills because you're not receiving regular feedback. I would encourage people to do this exercise.”

The 4 Elements of Your Career

Passions Talents

Markets Relationships

Building Relationships

Lana’s Experience

• “The posted job board is likely to result in headaches and unsuccessful results. There is always a way 'in' without the formal application.”

• “Relationship building and networking are different, networks do not pay off in a short time span, you need to invest in relationships over time.”

The 4 Elements of Your Career

Passions Talents

Markets Relationships

Target Markets

• Non governmental organizations engaged in environmental change initiatives

• Transportation & energy sectors priority

• Focus on behavioural change

• Social media integration

• Includes consulting groups that carry these portfolios

Markets

Share compelling stories:

“As Sustainability Engagement Coordinator, implemented workplace sustainable commuting challenge to 1,200 employees, using e-mail marketing techniques and floor to floor competitions to achieve 8% increase in participation.”

Lana’s Experience

“The understanding of my proof stories - having them on hand and being able to bring them naturally into a conversation - this was significant in helping me market myself to the organizations I wanted to help!”

The 4 Elements of Your Career

Passions Talents

Markets Relationships

What’s Next?

• Focus on the next step

• Who has issues, needs, challenges or problems that you are uniquely able to solve?

• Make that your next project!

Thank You!

rob@straby.com

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