Career Planning
Most entrepreneurs do not begin their careers by starting their own ventures (though there are some notable exceptions). The majority have had at least a small career first so that they can take the skills
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Implement or conduct training for career development for your employees.
Coaching for team leaders, executives and business owners.
Devise a recruitment strategy based on your needs covering budget, tools, process and promotion.
50% wage subsidy of the apprentice’s or trainee’s wage for 9 months.
Design and host onboarding programs for new employees.
Help your employees to develop their career pathways in your company through a comprehensive program.
Create a system or process for managing your employees' performance.
Design or conduct technical training programs or workshops for your programmers and staff.
Implement or improve the renumeration, benefits or rewards program to increase productivity.
Retain great employees with career development and support programs
Find trainers for personal/team coaching and professional development
Implement or host leadership training for your executive staff, partners and team leaders.
Devise salary packages to attract talent and build a sustainable business.
Support your staff with HR training and leadership programs
Deal or manage issues with dismissals according to the Fair Work Act.
Re-align your resources and organisational structure based on new set of goals under a business restructuring.
Create a strategy and find the right people for your organisation
Plan for a smooth succession encompassing roles, structure, recruitment and reorganisation.
Find trainers for all industries and business sizes, at exec or staff level.
Implement or host OH&S training programs for your employees.
Implement a new or improve your current payroll system.
Psychometric tests for personality, attitude and cognitive functions to further develop your staff, agents or partners.
Outsource or build a system to take care of you and your employees' superannuation.
Create or hold fun and effective team building sessions that cater to your business goals.
Set up payroll process, salary packaging and superannuation systems
Stephanie Gobraiel at Virtual Associate Services
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Working on your business is just as important as working in your business, ie client work.
Having a strategic plan which is high level, then that could be broken down into goals then breaking down those goals into chunks makes anything achievable.. That includes upskilling, implementing or improving processes, business growth and more.
Even if you have one goal per month and your achieving it, that's counted moving forward and making progress in business.
1. Animator The popularity of computers is constantly rising – this is the career you’ll find entertaining and well paid. If you wish to never grow up and have fun your whole life, you should...
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Great list, but I would add a musician and blogger too. Recently, I wrote an article about most creative jobs in 2019, which you can check out here, I think it will be really interesting for you too.
Thanks for this article. It's really useful for me because I'm preparing for my first job interview. Also, I read Meghan M. Biro blog. I found some useful tips at her latest blog post. I think you definitely need to take a look at it too.
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Jef Lippiatt, Owner at Startup Chucktown
Great write up on motivation and perseverance.
No job is safe these days, no matter how important you are or how secure you feel. Even the Prime Minister wasn't safe. Business, can be very risky, things can happen and it could all be taken away...
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Jef Lippiatt, Owner at Startup Chucktown
Risk can not be completely eliminated. It can only be mitigated. As entrepreneurs we should be hyper-aware that risk is a constant as well as a variable. Consider that without risk there is no need to be an entrepreneur, but being an entrepreneur carries its own risks.
This is truly a loaded question. Steven diversification above and he is correct, but that needs to be seen in more detail (I'll circle back on this below).
Richard you have made some interesting suggestions, but they have risk as well. Take Intellectual Property, sure there is a reasonable expectation on return, but consider the cost to achieve the IP, just because you've secured IP doesn't mean it creates a product people want or need. Even if it leads to a product people want, it won't last indefinitely. The same is true of writing and selling a book. What if you spend all that time and money creating the book and no one buys it? What if the book sells well for a while, is that rate of sales sustainable? There is still risk involved.
Diversification is the only way to truly minimize risk. I speak of true diversification, not in the sense of a Monetary Portfolio. This is what successful diversification looks like to me:
The primary job is consulting. This leads to an offshoot of paid speaking engagements. The added visibility leads to writing and selling a book (while still consulting and doing speaking engagements). The book surfaces the opportunity to do training workshops (helping others gain your skills not applying your skills to clients, but still doing all of the above). The added projects have brought additional revenue. You decide to invest your extra revenue. You split your investments across Stocks, Bonds and Cash. You continue doing all of the above and decide you want to buy part or all of a related business but leave them to operate on your own. Now that you have all that going you realize you don't have as much time to do all of the above, so you cut back on training and open up an e-commerce store to sell whitepapers, training guides (CDs/DVDs) and other related material.
This could continue on and on. The idea is that you are truly diversified. Sell services, digital products, physical products and be in different industries and verticals so that lows in one market are offset by another.
I will say it again, risk can not be eliminated. It can only be minimized. The biggest risk is not taking any. Life is always changing so you must plan to adapt constantly.
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Great article Barbara! Your article is such an inspiration to all women, whether they are re-entering the workforce, or changing careers.
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Yes Phil. This is one of the Secrets of Highly Successful Positive Thinking People, I have discovered.
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Most entrepreneurs do not begin their careers by starting their own ventures (though there are some notable exceptions). The majority have had at least a small career first so that they can take the skills and knowledge they have learned and apply it to their own ventures. While some job-seekers are happy to take anything they can get, ambitious job-seekers understand that like anything else a career has to be selected and planned diligently. Career planning consists of looking for a position that you desire and determining which roles you need to perform first to qualify for it.
The first mistake many job-seekers make is that they do not consider the sort of lifestyle that satisfies their needs, leading to dissatisfaction in their work lives. When it comes to choosing a career, the following considerations are important:
Once you have determined the field that is right for you, you need to prepare to apply. Generally this will require:
It’s important to find roles which you match the minimum standards of and to be able to provide documentation to prove it.
A resume is typically the first point of contact in a job search. Professional resumes are well written, neatly formatted and only include relevant content. The most successful applicants typically tailor their resume for each position they are applying for, emphasising the skills that are most important for that role and highlighting past experience. A good resume includes:
If you’re searching for a job and applying to a lot of positions, it is easy to quickly lose track of the various applications, responses and contacts. Getting organised and keeping a job search folder on your computer, which contains all of your job search efforts, your contacts and your responses, will stop you from getting overwhelmed or confused.
There are a few tips that we have collected that will help you in your search:
If you are struggling to find work, you have two main options - seeking work experience or commencing further education.
Work experience can be a valuable way to gain hands on, practical knowledge about your industry. It is an opportunity to:
Further education is one of the most surefire ways to access new opportunities. Consider what tafe courses or certifications may be valuable in the industry you want to work in. It is useful to find specific positions you want and seek out the necessary certifications to apply. If you are looking to join a professional career, you will probably need a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject area. Some careers may even require a Master's degree or more. If you are taking on substantial tertiary studies like these, it is wise to ensure that the degree is marketable and will produce a solid return so that you can pay off any student debt.