CareerVision - April 2009

• The Building Blocks of Your
  Personal Brand

• Profile: Stuart Hartley, FCA, CA•IT
• Protect Yourself from Online Job
  Fraud
  
• Career Intuition – YOU as a
  Sustainable Resource
• Featured Jobs

• How to Motivate Your Team: Put Frederick Herzberg Theory into Practice
• The Key to Higher Performance
• Grooming Your Superstars for Tomorrow

• Nowhere to Go? Time to Go

What do you want people to say about you? What makes you different? What do you stand for and what are you passionate about? How do you benefit your employer, your colleagues?

If you have trouble answering these questions, you haven’t yet tapped into the power of your personal brand. Brand YOU is about differentiating yourself in the workplace and helping to shape how you are perceived by others.

In this session, we’ll look at the building blocks of your personal brand:

• Identifying your skills, experience, strengths and weaknesses
• Identifying your audiences and what they need from you to be successful
• Managing your brand as you move through your career

Click here to register for webinar

Profile: Stuart Hartley, FCA, CA•IT
~ Lorie Murdoch

Shortly before news about one of the biggest jaw-dropping financial scandals of the 20th century exploded on front pages, Stuart Hartley was setting up his own specialized consulting firm. “It was right before Enron made headlines in 2001,” says the British-born CA from his FocusROI offices in downtown Toronto. He had been with BDO Dunwoody in Mississauga and Toronto since 1983 during which time he became an audit partner, was chair of their international accounting and auditing committee, and provided training worldwide on the BDO international audit manual, which he helped write.

There has been a significant increase in the amount of online fraud in the last few years as more scammers prey on people looking for jobs. In the current economic climate, this is a trend that will likely continue more frequently as dishonest people try to profit from unsuspecting job seekers. This article will provide tips on how to protect yourself, specifically from online job fraud, and generally from other types of fraud.

Career Intuition – YOU as a Sustainable Resource
~ Arupa Tesolin

Getting more intuitive has become a new career imperative. Too much thinking can prevent you from seeing the opportunities and advantages around you. Knowledge, in a competitive knowledge economy, can become overrated. Getting more intuitive about your career puts you back in the driver’s seat. As intuition gains new-found respect as a smart career skill, here are a few tips for you to take advantage of this mostly silent asset.

Featured Jobs

The job postings listed below are a sample of the 100+ postings on CA Source. To search all current CA Source postings, go to Search CA Jobs

1. Senior Financial Analyst, Investment Finance - Real Estate
   Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
   Toronto, Ontario
   Link to Job Posting
    
2. Corporate Accountant
   British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
   Victoria, British Columbia
   Link to Job Posting
    
3. Accountant
   City of Edmonton
   Edmonton, Alberta
   Link to Job Posting
    

How to Motivate Your Team: Put Frederick Herzberg Theory into Practice
~ Lyndsay Swinton

Using Frederick Herzberg theory is a simple, structured way to motivate your team and increase job satisfaction. By considering Herzberg's two factor theory, you can work out what dissatisfies your team, what motivates them and most importantly, what you can do to increase job satisfaction. Herzberg, an American behavioural scientist, observed that people could get very dissatisfied with problems about salary, job security, supervisor behaviour and company policy. However, if these issues were resolved, it did not guarantee job satisfaction. Herzberg identified job satisfaction was a result of different factors such as achievement, recognition and growth.

The Key to Higher Performance
~ Joe Calhoon

Our world will never be the same. Recent economic and political events have created a new playing field for business success. In order to make the most of the current realities, leaders must adapt to the changing marketplace and engage the capacity of their people to achieve business results. It all starts with a plan, better yet, a dynamic business growth plan. Developing a clear and simple plan will strengthen employee morale, increase productivity and improve profitability. This planning process won’t take long. The plan will fit on a single page. It will be easy to communicate, it will keep your team on track and, most importantly, it will be easy to adjust as the economy improves. An effective planning system is the most reliable predictor of business growth — it keeps everyone on the same page and ultimately leads to higher performance.

Grooming Your Superstars for Tomorrow
~ Steve McIntyre-Smith

Any hiring authority, whether in public practice, industry, or elsewhere with an eye on the future should be looking for qualities in their staff that indicate they are a cut above the rest. Indeed, most organizations, when trying to fill a position, specify qualities such as technically excellent, ability to develop and covet relationships with clients/suppliers/other departments, experience and know-how to find new clients/customers, ability to mentor people and/or be mentored, strong leadership abilities, a people-person with excellent communication skills, and above average presentation skills.

Nowhere to Go? Time to Go

If top performers feel the next rung on the career ladder is out of reach, they may decide to move on, a survey suggests. One-third (33%) of executives say good employees are most likely to quit their jobs because of a lack of advancement opportunities. Unhappiness with management is the second most common answer (31%) among 100 senior executives across Canada.

Most likely reason good employees quit

Source: Robert Half International