Manage and Safeguard Your BC Career

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Manage and Safeguard Your BC Career

• Cheyene Haase
• BC Management, Inc.

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Introduction to BC Management, Inc.

• Founded in March 2000.
• Headquartered in Huntington Beach, CA.
• An executive search firm exclusively placing
  business continuity, disaster recovery,
  information security and emergency management
  professionals internationally.
• Confidential assistance in personnel placing.
• Free e-Newsletter detailing Top Talent Current
  Job Openings.
• Annual BC/DR salary and BC program review.
• Benchmarking individual companies on salary and
  BC program review.

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Topics of Presentation

• Progression to Todays BC Professional
• Credentials in Demand
• Assess Your Career
• Increase Your Marketability
• Tomorrows BC Professional
• Your Fair Market Value
• Safeguard Your Career Now
• Ensure Your Marketability

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Career Progression

• Technology Driven
• 1970s 1998
• Disaster Recovery
• Data Processing/ Data Center focus
• Technology lead to a DR career
• Lack of a focused BC/DR career path

• Business Driven
• 1998 Current
• Enterprise Contingency Planning
• Risk Management/ Enterprise focus
• Multiple careers lead to a BC career
• An evolving, upward BC career path

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Profiling Current BC Professionals

• Job Title
• Specialty Focus
• Industry
• Working Experience
• Field Experience
• IT Expertise
• Education
• Business Competencies in BC
• Technical Competencies in DR
• Primary Career prior to BC/DR

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Profiling Current BC Professionals

• 2 of BC personnel are Entry-Level/ Analyst, 34
  are Planners, Coordinators, Administrators, 31
  are Managers, AVPs and Project Managers, 13 are
  VP/Directors, 5 are Global Managers and 1 Chief
  Officers.
• 45 BC, 22 DR, 12 Emergency Management, 8
  Crisis Management, 6 Information Technology
  Records Management.
• 29 in Financial industry, 11 Consulting
  Insurance, 7 Government Healthcare .
• 38 - 21-30 yrs Working Experience.
• 47 - 4-10 yrs Field Experience.
• 22 - IT Expertise of 7
• (scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest)
• 45 - Bachelor Degree 29 Master Degree

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Skills from most experienced to least
experienced
Business Competencies in BC

• BC/DR plan Test Exercise
• Maintenance of BC/DR Program
• Implementation of BC/DR Program
• Development of BC/DR Program
• Evaluate BC/DR Program
• Interaction with other fields
• Rolling out a Corporate BC/DR Program
• BIA/ Risk Assessment
• Recommending Appropriate BC/DR Program
• Developing a Training Program
• Selling to Executives on BC/DR Importance
• Gap Analysis
• Developing Business Case Scenarios

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Technical Competencies in BC
Skills from most experienced to least
experienced

• Offsite Recovery
• Data Center Recovery
• Systems Recovery
• Data Center Reviews
• Platform/ Application Recovery
• High Availability
• Network Recovery
• Storage
• Database Recovery
• ERP Recovery

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Primary Career Prior to BC

• 27 Information Technology
• (18 from IT-Systems)
• 10 Management
• 11 Other
• 9 Project Management
• 7 Operations
• 4 Business Analyst Finance
• 3 Consultant, Military Student
• 2 Emergency Management, Facilities, Health
  Safety, Human Resources, Information Security,
  Internal/ External Audit Physical Security
• 1 Compliance, Fire Fighter, Government Response
  (FEMA), Government (County, State, Federal,
  Intl), Police Officer, Records Management Risk
  Management

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BC Career Path
Use Continuity, Assurance, Enterprise,
Readiness Resiliency
Avoid Recovery Disaster
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Credentials in Demand

• Certification
• Advanced Education
• Expertise in both Business Technology
• Global BC Experience
• Wide Array of Tangent Skills
• Strong Soft Skills

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Soft Skills

• Polished Presentation Skills
• Proven Project Management
• Training Expertise
• Engage All Levels
• Develop Business Case Scenarios
• Understand a Culture Fit
• True Passion

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Value of Professional Certifications

• Most Recognized
• Benefits
• For You
• For Your Company
• Dual Certifications
• What Makes Sense For You?
• Current Certification Trends
• Increase in CBCP
• Wide Array of Multiple Certifications

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Assess Your Career

• Career Planning
• Where do you want to be in 5 10 years?
• Evaluate Current Credentials/ Competencies
• Evaluate Current Opportunity.
• Employer, Boss, Co-workers, Responsibilities
• Conduct a SWOT
• Be Strategic Create Opportunities

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Increase Your Marketability

• Brand yourself.
• Become certified or dual certified.
• Earn a bachelor or masters degree.
• Take advantage of other training/educational
  opportunities.
• Improve your presentation skills.
• Sharpen your business or technology knowledge.
• Expand your expertise in tangent fields.
• Become an expert/ leader in the field.

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Tomorrows BC Professional

• Increased Visibility
• Continue to Incorporate Enterprise Planning
• Focused and Elevating Career Path
• Continued Global Awareness

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Your Fair Market Value?
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What is Your Fair Value?

• Years of Field Work Experience
• Job Title Reporting Structure
• Certification
• Degreed
• IT Expertise
• Geography
• Industry Specialty
• Previous Career
• Competency Knowledge
• Travel
• Work History
• Program Management
• Leadership Capabilities
• Staff Management
• Intangible Skills Soft Skills, Strategic
  Planning Execution

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Safeguard Your Career Now

• Factors
• ? Less Jobs
• ? More Job Seekers
• ? Organizations Combining Multiple Personnel
  Needs
• ? Reduction of BC Personnel Needs
• Impact to Your Career
• ? Strengthen Skill Sets
• ? Broaden Skills
• ? Continue to Network
• ? Be Strategic

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Ensure Your Marketability

• Develop your brand and guard it.
• Continuously assess your career path.
• Seek out ways to sharpen your skills.
• Always be networking with your peers.
• Create a positive impact for your company.
• Be a leader or a contributor your colleagues want
  to work for or with.

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Questions
Cheyene Haase BC Management, Inc. (714)
843-5470 chaase_at_bcmanagement.com