Career Success Academy

Career Success Academy--Paving the Pathway to Career Success

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Learning the Business CultureMeeting Employers Expectations

Overview

What is todays Business Culture?Why should you strive to become bicultural?How can I succeed in todays Business Culture?

The combining of your everyday culture with your business culture and being successful in both worlds.

What is Bicultural?

Everyday CultureFamily traditionsEthnic or Socio-economic valuesReligious beliefsOnes values, customs, attitudes, and behaviorsThose day to day things that come naturally to you

Everyday Culture

Every business has a culture that helps define a set of rules that influence (maybe dictate?) how the business should operate. Sometimes they are written, sometimes just implied.

Example: Digital Spark MarketingSurvive in the short term, plan for the long term.Adapt as the rules sometimes change.Learn by trying new things, nothing replaces experience.To be really good, live it and breathe it dive inGo for positive expected value, not least riskyThose with most resilience and stamina usually winNever stop learning things from life all around youHave principles and stick with themHope is not a plan.Be nice, make friends, and have fun

Business Culture?http://www.digitalsparkmarketing.com/employees/define-business-culture/

Fitting-in in your Place of WorkThe way you talkDress CodeRules of ConductValues/MoralsSchedulingEmployer ExpectationsEducationBusiness concernsStaying within the boundariesRepresenting your company

Business Culture

Every business has different rules to live by. They are changing from day-to-day and you must learn to adjust to those changes.Those at a disadvantage of this change:Unemployed, changing careers, immigrants, those who did not grow up in working familiesYou have to learn to balance those business culture changes to what you are used to without changing who you are as an individual.

Changes to Make

MotivationWhat are you looking for in a job?How do you want your bosses to see you? Do you want to be the boss?What are your dream goals?MoneyWill making those changes help meet those goals?Still not what your looking for? Try a business whose culture is closer to your everyday culture.Why Should You Become Bicultural?

Evolution of CareersThe pathway to your dream job has changed of the years.Transportation AnalogyTrainsSame business pathway from the beginning to retirementBusesCan easily take a different pathway from where you startedAll-terrain vehicle (ATV)Go where no path has gone before

Source: Richard Knowdell, Career Development author, teacher, and industry leader.

Let the company know that you will be an ASSET.they WANT you!Go out and be active in your job search. Let the company you want to work for, know that you are the BEST.Market yourself. Show the employer what you can dohow you will make the company better once you are employed.Stand out from the crowd.

Sell Yourself

Every successful person has had someone invested in their success. Either by:Showing them the ropesWarning them of pitfallserrors they had committed themselvesIntroducing them to the right people.

Make those connections! Take their advice!

Get Help

Role ModelsThose you watch and do like they do.

Informal MentorsThose you go to regularly to learn and grow.

Formal MentorsThose you partner with to make connections and advance your career.Three Types of Mentors

Decide how you will learn each, when youll start, and how to achieve it.Ways to help you learnMake a Plan and Succeed!

MentorsClassesSeminars & WorkshopsDocumentariesWebsitesWebinars & BlogsMagazines & Industry PublicationsNetworking Groups

Elisabeth Sanders-Park, WorkNet Solutions www.worknetsolutions.comRichard Knowdell, Career Development author, teacher, and industry leaderDigital Sparks Marketing http://www.digitalsparkmarketing.com/employees/define-business-culture/

Workshop Sources:

For individualized assistance with developing your strategy for career success, please contact your Employment Services Specialist:

Service Locations: Bryan Martin Leflore, Latimer, & Haskell counties in OK, and all of ARJane Buffington -Atoka, Coal, Pittsburg, Hughes counties in OK **Deidre Inselman Bryan county in OK, and all of TX **Stacy Hallmark Choctaw, Pushmataha, McCurtain counties in OK, and all other states except TX and AR Rhonda Mize Oklahoma, Logan, Payne, Pawnee, Creek, Tulsa, Rogers, & Lincoln counties **

** These specialists also work with clients in OK counties outside of Choctaw Nation boundaries.

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