Career Management CenterWhat is a Career Management Center and how can it help you achieve your goals? Excellent questions! Too many times we are searching for something we have no idea of what it even is and this could be the case here! Before we run off quickly trying to find the perfect piece of our Career Management Plan let's discover what it is we're looking for in the first place. A Career Management Center is an organization that provides a service for the candidate and the employer. A good Career Center will be looking out for the interests of both. Almost like a good Dating Company trying to find the best match for both parties this would be a Management Centers goal. They are not trying to put a square peg in a round hole. If the peg doesn't fit then move on to where it does fit! So the first mission of the career Management Center is to provide a great screening system that allows for enough information to be put in so that it will find the best match for the other party. This could mean either the hiring organization or the potential candidate looking for a position. Most searches are just looking at education and/or professional background and then trying to find a match. I would challenge you that a good System would also include personalities. I can hear you now saying what does personality have to do with anything. I would respond that it has everything to do with it! Most companies have a personality whether they know it or not. Take Marriott as an example. There personality is to be a servant! If you have ever stayed in a Marriott Hotel you know exactly what I mean. Their employees want to serve you in every way possible to make your stay with them perfect! I love Marriott! Having said that if the candidate's personality does not match up with Marriott's no one is going to be happy! A Career Management Center should be able to separate out the wheat from the chaff! The other issue that must be accounted for is life experiences. Many times we put all our marbles into the basket that says a person with a college degree is always more qualified than the one that doesn't have it! I would agree that odds are in the favor of making the above statement true, but not in all cases. Just like personality, life experiences are very important to the learning and skill level of individuals. As an example I was promoted to Assistant Manager of a Fast Food Restaurant at the age of sixteen. It wasn't because I got lucky I was because during my breaks and off time I volunteered to learn all the positions. My original intent was to learn only; however, it paid huge dividends. The best advice I can give you relating to a Career Management Plan or selecting a Career Management Center is to know what you like to do! Understand what lights up your life! A Career is for a very long time and if you are not happy doing it, your life will be miserable no matter what the salary is. Don't chase the almighty dollar which in reality is nothing more than a means to provide you with survival.
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