Career Management

Select the work you like, and you will not even have to work one day in your whole life.
CONFUCIUS
Chinese Philosopher
v 551 - 479 B.C.


The career management process is composed of three steps:
• self-acquaintance: the basement of the process
• professional experience assessment: relevant achievements and learnings
• professional perspective: the orientation I want to give to my career.

The time when the company managed our career for ourself is over. Today, it is our responsibility to manage our own career, and to know what we want and what we don't.
This step is relevant for everyone: freshman or experienced people, medium or top managers, male or female, etc. Moreover, this step allows a better compromise between “who I am” and “where I go”, less painfully, more joyfully…

Our added value:
• To help you to determine and to structure your inputs
• To be by your side in the recruitment process

Illustration

Context

John is over 50 years old. Two years ago, his international and brilliant career suddenly stopped because of a change in shareholding. As a Purchasing Director, John used to manage a 30-people team.

John is now working in a functional job, he has no one to manage. In a way, he is 'imprisoned' in a ‘golden jail’.

Today, the company is in the red, and pressure from all parts is increasing. The company has just proposed John a job as an assistant in the documentation service. John is now experiencing harassment from his hierarchy and from his company to push him out.

In this demoralizing atmosphere, John has to find a new job quickly.

Challenge

• To reinforce John's self-esteem
• To prepare him to pass recruitment interviews.
The objective is to let John leave his current company a gentleman way while starting to look for a job an effective way.

Methodology

The first session is dedicated to build trust between John and the consultant. Because John has been manipulated for years now, he has become careful.

Then, we decided to plan the work and to work the plan. This concrete and demanding approach helped John to stand back from the situation he was living at that time.

• Taking into account John’s professional basements and personal skills
• drafting a professional project
• defining an action plan and a non-negotiable deadline
• re-connecting with people he knew
• training for interviews
were the different steps meticulously followed during twelve sessions.

Moreover, carrying out some objectives, and achieving them, even minor ones, was a key in restoring John's self-esteem.

Result

• John was selected to become the Head of the Purchasing Department
He had this offer six months after our first meeting. He is now recognized for who he is and what he can do.
• John is feeling well
His 'blazon has been regilded', properly. His family has noticed it a positive way.

-> The process is demanding but gratifying. John's greatest merit is to have shown will and courage. His challenge is no longer on a politic ground but on an operational one; this is what John likes. New perspectives are opening up…

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