1. Career Planning
1- Welcome
2- Brief intro about SCU ECDC role
3-Expectations
4-WIFM
5- What’s a career?
6- Self assessment
7- Career Planning process
4. Services provided:
• Resume writing workshops
• Career planning workshops
• Job search workshops
• Interview skills workshops
• Employability skills training
• English language courses
• Resume critique and career guidance services.
5. Career Planning workshop?
What’s in it for me?
• 1- Self assessment
• 2- Explore your skills and talents
• 3- Determine your personal and career
values.
• 4- Career planning process
11. Career planning:
Step 1 (knowing yourself)
• Before you can make a career choice you have to
learn about:
1-Yourself
2- Values
3- Interests
4- Skills*
*In combination with certain personality traits
will make some careers especially suitable for
you and some particularly inappropriate
13. Self assessment:
Knowing about yourself
• “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves,
the most fundamental harm we can do to
ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having
the courage and the respect to look at ourselves
honestly and gently.”
― Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart:
Heart Advice for Difficult Times
16. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Realistic:
• They are: People who have athletic ability,
prefer to work with objects, machines, tools,
plants or animals, or to be outdoors.
1- Practical
2- Straightforward/frank
3- Mechanically inclined
4- Stable
5- Concrete
18. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Realistic:
• They can:
* Fix electrical things
* Solve electrical problems
* Pitch a tent
* Play a sport
* Read a blueprint
* Plant a garden
* Operate tools and machine
19. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Realistic:
• They like to:
* Tinker with machines/vehicles
* Work outdoors
* Be physically active
* Use your hands
* Build things
* Tend/train animals
* Work on electronic equipment
20. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Investigative:
• They are: people who like to observe, learn,
investigate, analyze, evaluate, or solve problems.
* Inquisitive
* Analytical
* Scientific
* Observant/precise
* Scholarly
* Cautious
22. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Investigative:
• They can:
* Think abstractly
* Solve math problems
* Understand scientific theories
* Do complex calculations
* Use a microscope or computer
* Interpret formulas
23. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Investigative:
• They like to:
* Explore a variety of ideas
* Work independently
* Perform lab experiments
* Deal with abstractions
* Do research
* Be challenged
24. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Artistic:
• They are: people who have artistic, innovating,
or intuitional abilities and like to work in
unstructured situations using their imagination
and creativity.
* Creative
* Imaginative
* Innovative
* Emotional
26. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Artistic:
They can:
* Sketch
* Draw
* Paint
* Play a musical instrument
* Write stories, poetry
* Sing
* Act/ dance
* Design fashions or interiors
27. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Artistic:
They like to:
* Attend concerts, theatre, art exhibits
* Read fiction, plays, and poetry
* Work on crafts
* Take photography
* Express yourself
* Creatively deal with ambiguous ideas
28. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Social:
They are: people who like to work with people to
enlighten, inform, help, train, or cure them, or are
skilled with words.
* Friendly
* Helpful
* Idealistic
* Insightful
* Outgoing
* Understanding
30. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Social:
They can:
* Teach/train others
* Express yourself clearly
* Lead a group discussion
* Mediate disputes
* Plan and supervise an activity
* Cooperate well with others
31. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Social:
They like to:
* Work in groups
* Help people with problems
* Do volunteer work
* Work with young people
* Serve others
32. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Enterprising:
They are: people who like to work with people,
influencing, persuading, leading or managing for
organizational goals or economic gain.
* Self-confident
* Assertive
* Persuasive
34. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Enterprising:
They can:
* Initiate projects
* Convince people to do things your way
* Sell things
* Give talks or speeches
* Organize activities
* Lead a group
* Persuade others
35. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Enterprising:
They like to:
* Make decisions
* Be elected to office
* Start their own business
* Campaign politically
* Meet important people
* Have power or status
36. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Conventional:
They are: People who like to work with data, have
clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in
detail, or follow through on others’ instructions.
* Well-organized
* Accurate
* Numerically inclined
* Efficient
38. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Conventional:
They can:
* Work well within a system
* Do a lot of paper work in a short time
* Keep accurate records
* Use a computer terminal
* Write effective business letters
39. Self assessment (Holland Code)
Conventional:
They like to:
* Follow clearly defined procedures
* Use data processing equipment
* Work with numbers
* Type or take shorthand
* Be responsible for details
* Collect or organize things
42. Self assessment: (Skills)
There are three kinds of skills you need
in the workplace:
1- Technical
2-Transferable
3- Personal
43. Self assessment: (Skills)
Technical skills are the specialised skills and
knowledge required to perform specific duties and are
often easily recognisable.
Example:
* Driving a forklift
* Machine operator
* Accounting
* Specific software skills
* Nursing
44. Self assessment: (Skills)
Transferable skills are the basic skills required to
perform a variety of tasks. They are your greatest asset as
they can be ‘transferred’ from one area of work to
another and employers value their portability.
Example:
* IT/Computer
* Customer service
* Driving
45. Self assessment: (Skills)
• Personal skills are the individual attributes you
have such as attitude, personality, work habits and style
of operation. They often describe what you are like and
how you would naturally go about doing things.
Example:
* Working under pressure
* Honesty and reliability
* Fast learner
47. Career planning:
Step 2 (Exploring your options)
This step is about exploring the occupations and
learning areas that interest you. Once you have
some idea of your occupational preferences you
can research the specific skills and qualifications
required for those occupations.
48. Career planning:
Step 2 (Exploring your options)
- For each occupation you explore ask yourself:
49. Career planning:
Step 2 (Exploring your options)
• Explore occupations that interest you and ask
yourself :
How do my skills and interests match up with these
occupations?
• Where are the gaps?
• What options do I have to gain these skills or qualify
for these occupations?
• What skills do I need?
• Where is the work?
50. Career planning:
Step 2 (Exploring your options)
• What are the daily tasks and duties?
• What are the working conditions?
• What are the personal requirements?
• What skills and training do I need?
• What career paths are available?
• How do I find out more about my preferred
occupations?
52. Career planning:
Step 3 (Making Decisions)
• This step involves comparing your
options, narrowing down your choices
and thinking about what suits you best at
this point in time.
53. Career planning:
Step 3 (Making Decisions)
• What are my preferred work/learning options?
• How do they match with my skills, interests and
values?
• How do they fit with the current labour market?
• How do they fit with my current situation and
responsibilities?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of each
option?
• What will help and what will hinder me?
56. Career planning:
Step 4 (Moving on/Taking action)
• Here you plan the steps you need to take to put
your plan into action.
• Use all you have learnt about your skills,
interests and values together with the
information you have gathered about the world
of work to create your plan.
57. Career planning:
Step 4 (Moving on/Taking action)
The most effective action plans are:
• Based on up-to-date information
• Specific and detailed
• Tied to timelines with specific completion dates
• Challenging but achievable
• Aligned with your goals and values
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60. It’s all about who you really are..
• “Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not
that funny. That's me: I'm not that.”
― John Green
• We’re meant to be different and you’re meant t0
be unique...
