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Session 12

Vijayta Doshi

IIM Udaipur
Job Crafting

Personalizing Your Job


Process
The Three Ps
of People
Job Crafting
Purpose
Source: Turn your boring job into a job you’ll love. By Dan Cable.
Harvard Business Review.
Process How can I use my work strengths to
bring more of myself into the work?

TASK CRAFTING
How can I interact more with colleagues who inspire
me, rather than detract from my quality of life?

People

RELATIONAL CRAFTING
Purpose

What story do I tell myself about why I do my work? Can I make the
narrative more inspiring?

COGNITIVE CRAFTING
Are You Crafting Your Job?
Let us Do Job
Crafting of Our Jobs!
Career Crafting
McKinsey & Co. (A): Career Crafting
Should Bill move to Korea? Why?

Which of the projects should Tiffany


pursue? Think about your career, are there
tradeoffs involved in choosing projects,
places and people to work with?
Should Alex stay with McKinsey or go
back to his engineering roots in France?
What happened next?

• Bill moved to Korea, had a tough time initially (culturally) but soon
became engagement manager.

• Tiffany took up the telecom path and became engagement manager.


With the help of her mentors.

• Alex stayed with McKinsey and soon had a team of 50 working for
him.
Lessons: Career Crafting

Be risk-lover and open to experience the Try the untried, you will not repent! Usually, the discomfort of a new place or
world, early on in your career! new type of work is temporary. Hang on
There are huge possibilities beyond your there!
fear of untested.
It is the catapult being prepared to be
launched!

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