Career Management and Employee Portfolio Tool Kit: 3Rd Edition

By Antonio F. Vianna

Whether you are just starting out in your career, re-entering the workforce, changing jobs or careers, or wanting to advance in your current organization, you must be on target as to who you are, what you want to become, and how to get there. Career Management and Employee Portfolio Tool Kit, 3rd edition provides two valuable tools for the employee: how to plan, organize, decide, and act on key career decisions; how to make the performance management process work for you. Several updates have been added to help build your understanding of ways to enhance your career. There are new exercises, tips, tactics, and tools.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 9, 2003
• ISBN: 9781410710994

Antonio F. Vianna

Antonio F. Vianna After serving in the U.S. Air Force as an officer, successfully working in business as a Human Resources executive, and teaching business at the graduate and undergraduate level at the University level, Antonio F. Vianna decided to write. He began his writing career in 2003. To date this is his 25th published book along with 12 screenplays. His historical fiction screenplay (Far From Ordinary), also a book, was a semi-finalist in the 2018 Southern California Screenplay Competition and he was a Screenplay Jurist in the 2018 and 2019 San Diego International Kid's Film Festivals. He holds a M.M. from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.S. from Union College. His books are available in paperback and electronically wherever books are sold. He is available for speaking engagements as well. He lives in Carlsbad, CA.

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Career Management and

Employee Portfolio Tool Kit

3rd Edition

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Antonio F. Vianna

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©2010 Antonio F. Vianna. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 1/21/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4107-1099-4 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4107-1100-7 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2003090034

Contents

Career Management

Chapter 1

Guiding Principles to Successful Career Management

Chapter 2

A. Greatness

B. World Class Performance

C. Life-Long Learning

Chapter 3

Critical Thinking and Decision Making

Chapter 4

Hindrances to Critical Thinking and Decision Making

Chapter 5

Examining the Evidence and Its Sources to Make a Judgment

Chapter 6

Who Am I?

Chapter 7

Five Sigma of Career Success

INTERESTS

COMPETENCES

MOTIVATION

CAPABILITIES

Chapter 8

Values and Resource Allocation

Chapter 9

Personal Professional Mission Statement

Chapter 10

Resume and Cover Letter

Chapter 11

Branding, Strategic Marketing Questions, and Interviewing

B. Strategic Marketing Questions

C. Promises for Marketing Myself

D. How to Get an Interview

E. Interviewing Tips

F. Questions During The Interview

Chapter 12

A. CAREER ACTION PLANNING

CAREER ACTION PLANNING SUMMARY

EMPLOYEE PORTFOLIO

OVERVIEW

I. PREPARATION

II. PERFORMANCE

III. PLANNING

IV. PERFORMANCE REVIEW

V. CONCLUSION

About the Author

Overview

To take ownership of your career, you must be on target as to Who you are, What you want to become, and How to get there. Career Management and Employee Portfolio Tool Kit, 3rd edition provides you with two important tools for your success.

Career Management

Whether you are just starting out in your career, re-entering the workforce, changing jobs or career, or wanting to advance in your current organization, you must critically analyze key forces that influence career decisions. This tool helps you make the right decisions about your career so that you take the right actions on the right issues to achieve your success.

Employee Portfolio

There are few training initiatives in most organizations to help the employee who is being appraised become prepared for the performance management and appraisal process. This tool helps you become better prepared for that process by becoming an active contributor.

Career Management

Several updates have been added to help build your understanding of ways to enhance your career. There are new exercises, tips, tactics, and approaches to help you more critically think through and analyze the best alternatives for your career.

Purpose

This tool is intended to help you plan, organize, decide, and act on key career decisions that enhance your opportunity for career success.

Objectives

To identify the five key anchors that your career pivots around.

To create your Personal Professional Mission Statement that communicates your uniqueness and special value.

To create your Career Action Plan that gives you both sufficient detail and flexibility to put into place important strategic career decisions.

How To Use This Tool

Critically thinking about any subject takes time, so do not rush through the material. Answer the questions honestly, thoroughly, and as precisely as possible. If a word or phrase in this section suggests another word or phrase, write that idea in the provided pages. Use this tool as a working document, a practical tool, to help advance your career. Continually review the collective information you gather about yourself, adjusting your judgement and opinion as often as necessary. Note consistencies as well as inconsistencies. Then, when you think it is time, act on your judgement and opinion. Best success.

Chapter 1

Guiding Principles to Successful Career Management

2783.jpg Embrace Change

Your career is constantly evolving, changing as you have new experiences. The more experiences you have, the greater the opportunity to seek out those careers that you favor. Most people experience at least four different careers in their lifetime, something that is common today than ever before. This means you have a protean career. Embrace the change.

2785.jpg Sensitivity to Your World

Most people have a very personal relationship with their career. A positive side of this relationship suggests people can be passionate and devoted to their career. However, a downside of this relationship is that people can be blinded by the realities of a career-gone-wrong.

2787.jpg Sustains Over Time

To be successful, a career should be sustainable over time, and it should be economically viable over time.

2789.jpg Five Anchors

Your career pivots around five anchors that allow you to change your career. Those