This presentation shares some tips about career development and job search in the Toastmasters ways.

1. Personal Leadership
&
Career Development
Presented by Brian Lin, DTM PDG

2. My Career Change Wish List 2011
• Utilize my statistics, analysis, programming, and
database skills
• Utilize my Toastmasters skills
• Medical related
• Midtown Manhattan, New York City
• Equivalent Pay to old job $100K+ / year
• Hands-on boss who appreciates my talent and ability.
S/he Know a bit Stat & DB and is logical and rational.
• Friendly & caring colleagues - mostly females
• Reasonable workload
• Good social interactions
• Large office
My Story - From Pharmaceutical SAS Programmer to
Medical Insurance Statistician

3. Most Fulfilling Job is What
• I love most. (Follow my passion)
• I can do best (and I like it)
• Help me become who I want to be

4. Exercise #1
Elevator Speech
Who Am I?
What Can I do for you?
Create your 30 seconds
Commercial / Self Introduction
<40-80 words>

5. How can Toastmasters Help me
Find a New Job / Change Career?
• The "Can Do" Positive Attitude
• Speaking / Communication Skills
• Leadership / Management Skills
• Network / Networking
Personal leadership uses all 4 elements
effectively to upgrade your career and your life.

6. The "Can Do" Positive Attitude
• Where there is a will, there is a way.
(How to study at MIT without an application)
• It is never too late (How an accountant becomes a pastor)
• I Have support from family, friends, Toastmasters,
& others (Broadcast my intentions, find people who are on my side)
Need more examples? Read "Heart of a Toastmaster: True Stories by, for, and
about members of Toastmasters International" by Sheryl L Roush

7. Speaking / Communication Skills
• I am what I Speak (What would you like others to remember you for)
• Establish My expertise through speeches (10 speeches and
you will be an expert in something)
• Work through Toastmasters manuals and program
(Pick manuals which fit your career goals)

8. Exercise #2
Speaking with Conviction
Find one boring detail of my life and talk about it as if it was
the most interesting thing in the world.
From Leil Lowndes' dating workshop

9. Leadership / Management Skills
• How do I manage my resource (Resources:
time, energy, people, effort, $)*
• Ask for help, feedback & mentor (Ask and you may get it)
• Trial career / sabbatical / Internship / volunteer
(Baby Boss example, try something new for 2 weeks example)
*Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen

10. Network / Networking
Toastmasters Hidden Secret
• "It’s not what you know but who you know." (有本事
不如有人脈)
• Meet them before you need them
• Going Beyond Our Club (Item: 298DCD)

11. Exercise #3
Who Knows It (Time Permits)
Ask someone if s/he knows ___________.
If not, ask s/he who might know it.
<You can ask any career / job related question>

12. Does
your
career
plan look
like this?
Source:林晉如https://www.facebook.com/cindy.hsin.904

13. The Tree Diagram - courtesy of Eve, my sister-in-law

14. Q & A
Feedback
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Contact Brian Lin, DTM PDG at LeaderD83@gmail.com