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Career Talk

Top 3 Mistakes to Avoid in your IT Career

Ms Heng Teng Teng

Career & Leadership Coach

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Case Study 1

John started his IT career as a programmer at the age of 24. He did that for 3 years and was promoted to System Analyst. He worked well and was again promoted to a Senior Analyst at 30 years old. What will be his potential career path in the next 5 years? • Regional Analyst • Team Manager • Project Manager • Senior IT Manager

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What skills do you need?

DATA Ability to deal

with data: recording,

researching, analyzing

PEOPLE Ability to deal

with interpersonal processes: teaching,

presentation, leading,

motivating

THINGS Ability to deal

with non personal

processes: operate, repair

& assemble equipment

IDEAS Ability to deal intrapersonal processes: creating,

synthesizing, discovering

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Pyramid of Skills

DATA PEOPLE THINGS IDEAS

Synthesizing Mentoring Setting Up Inventing

Innovating Negotiating Precision Working

Improvising

Analyzing Influencing Controlling Diagnosing

Researching Persuading Repairing Editing

Consolidating Supervising Manipulating Organizing

Comparing Taking instruction

Handling Compare

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Mistake #1: Overused of Skills

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Possible Strategies

• Build up your learning agility • Have more than 1 mentor (besides your boss) in the company • Think like a business partner

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Case Study 2

Patrick has been working in the same bank as a Regional Analyst for the past 10 years. He lost his job as a result of restructuring. Prior to that, he was working as System Analyst in 2 different companies for 5 years. What will be the potential challenges you think he will face in his job search?

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Mistake #2: Specialized in only one domain/industry

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Possible Strategies

• Within the same industry, understand the upcoming trends & challenges in the industry

• Do not restrict yourself with only one domain/industry knowledge • Be connected with other professionals in other industry

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Mistake #3: Over emphasis on jobs and not career

• Career development is promotions driven

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Are you timing your next move? “Idiot’s Guide to Career Moves”: 1) Have I enhanced the value of the role to the company? 2) Have I created greater currency for this kind of skill in the company? 3) Have I developed the overall capability of the team I lead? 4) Have I created a lasting contribution or legacy I can be proud of? 5) Have I put in place a competent successor? 6) Have I developed the experiences that I will need for my future needs?

When to move on?

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Planning for your “descend”

But …

• career satisfaction is values, interests and life stage driven

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Career & Our Life Stage

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Possible Strategies

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Possible Strategies

• Have a plan; what is your “landing job”?

• Start giving back (more): e.g. Volunteer, Mentoring

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Be a Bridge and build Bridges around you