Career Guidance

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Career management

  • This lens is a resource for education, information, products, services on the principles of career management.
 
  • It  helps professionals increase value and improve their career while living a balanced life.

Your professional project

It all starts with an idea:

Developing a quality career according to the market is the key to your professional project.
One thing or the other:
-You already know what you want to do: well done! .
- You have no idea what the next step of your life will be
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Self assessment

Career assessment

The purpose of this first part is to lead you to know yourself better, in order to devise a service to be offered in the job market. It is essential to establish a close link between your profile and your service offer, that is to say your portrait according to your skills and your behaviour.
Your profile study will represent the base of your career management: it will enable you to manage your professional life in the best way possible. It is also a data base where you will be able to find information to write your resume and cover letter and prepare your job interviews.

Your educational background

Consider your knowledge.

Exercise:
Consider your basic knowledge: What school or university do you come from?

Languages

Exercise:

Do you speak English fluently? What other foreign languages can you speak? What is your level?

Computer skills

What are your computer skills?

Operating systems (Mac/Windows) - Office software - Technical software programs - Languages - Environment - Internet applications

Your skills and your work experience

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Market study

Your market study

The second step in your job or internship search consists in analyzing the job market, its opportunities, its threats, expectations and reality. You will thus be able to profit from market opportunities.

1. The global context of the job market
From a macroeconomic point of view, according to the latest studies, the job market situation in 2007 is improving for executives.

There are always some opportunities for the most efficient workers.

2. Increasing requirement for mobility

The effects of globalization are perceptible: the standardization of consumption leads brands on global markets. These last decades the trade globalization and the increasing mobility of the elements of production have accelerated. Almost every firm has now an international supply and an international demand.

Even small and medium enterprises adapt onto a global scale, and particularly in the high technology sector. The globalization has for result the increase of international functions. Firms have a continual need for executives able to prospect on international markets, to negotiate with foreign partners, to work in international teams or in subsidiaries established abroad.

3. Segmentation by sectors

A sector is a set of firms with the same principal activity. From a prospective point of view, on http://www.acinet.org you will find a list of fast growing industries.
Number one is educational support services
You will also find on this website the highest paying industries.

4. Segmentation by function
The following pages present some ideas of career: these information were taken from the US government website (http://www.bls.gov)

B U D G E T A N A L Y S T S

Deciding how to efficiently distribute limited financial resources is an important challenge in all organizations. In most large and complex organizations, this task would be nearly impossible were it not for budget analysts. These professionals play the primary role in the development, analysis, and execution of budgets, which are used to allocate current resources and estimate future financial requirements. Without effective analysis of and feedback about budgetary problems, many private and public organizations could become bankrupt.

Employment of budget analysts is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through 2010. Employment growth will be driven by the continuing demand for sound financial analysis in both public and priva

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Your resume

The content

Content rules

Content rules are the substance of the resume, a package of tools of persuasion that must not be ignored. Put them to clever use!

Your resume will be honest

Your resume will be a selling document

Be positive, you are offering your services, and arouse curiosity waiting until the day of the interview to show your strengths.

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