Building Your Life's Career

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Chemeketa Community College Winema Conference
Center 4001 Winema Place NESalem, OR 97301 June
16, 2008 1pm - 145pm
Building Your Lifes Career!
presented by Ben Berry, Chief Information
Officerben.berry_at_odot.state.or.ushttp//www.oreg
on.gov/ODOT/CS/ISB/docs/Hotdocs2008/internOregonPr
esentationBB061608.ppt
Careers Right Place / Right Time












June 16, 2008


THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (ODOT)
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Transportation Operations
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Wrestling with 21st Century Issues

• Thinking strategically has become a prerequisite
  to success. Short term goals driven by long term
  goals.

Prerequisites for Success

• Weve seen the business environment become far
  tougher and far less forgiving of mediocrity.

Business Environment

• We operate in a new economic reality, one of
  rapid change. Change in IT, in networked
  organizations, in knowledge workers carrying the
  business around in their heads, and in
  globalization.

New Economic Reality

• Products services being sold where income is
  higher
• Production moving to where labor costs are lower
• Labor moving to where wages are higher

Globalization in three dimensions

• Thinking strategically is not a once a year
  event rather, management teams must think
  strategically 24x7.

24 x 7

• Chaos of our 21st Century is continuous. It
  isnt waiting patiently for your next planning
  cycle. If management is not constantly thinking
  strategic, then our organizations are vulnerable
  as we strive for best-in-class service excellence!

Continuous Improvement
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What would life look like if we could build our
lifes career around our Strengths?
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If you focus on your Talents instead of your
weaknesses what would happen?
Embrace Similarities and Differences
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Executing the Vision is on you!
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Top Management
Career Opportunity Doors
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Income
Management
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Project Leadership
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Systems Analysis, Senior Programming Analysis
Senior Software Engineering
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Skills Experience
Programming, Programming Analysis Software
Engineering
Operations
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Employment Market Drivers

• Market forces work to correct the supply and
  demand imbalance
• that can exist in some careers.
• As the market situation
• changes, time lags can
• exist as you train to
• become qualified
• professionals versus the
• growing market demand
• fueled by economic
• growth,

Supply and Demand Conditions Will Continue
to Push Up IT Wages and Salaries over Time
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Wages Salaries
Demand Economy
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Labor Pool
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Berry CXO Career (1970-2008)
Chief Information Officer Chief Technology
Officer
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Bell-Shaped Curve
The Law of Things
Internal Weaknesses Score
Internal Strengths Score
M I N I M I Z E
M A X I M I Z E
0 2 5
8 10
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Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned
about that now. I just want to do God's will,
and He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over, and I've seen the
promised land. I may not get there with you,
but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a
people will get to the promised land.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just hours before his
assassination in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3rd
1968.
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For context, consider the Universe!
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Antares is the 15th brightest star in the
sky.   It is more than 1,000 light years
away.   As people, now how big are we really in
the scheme of things?
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Humbling, isn't it?     And how big are the
things that upset you today?   Keep life in
perspective.  
  and don't sweat the small stuff!  
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Building Your Lifes Career!
Careers Right Place / Right Time!"
presented by Ben Berry, Chief Information
Officerben.berry_at_odot.state.or.us