This document discusses authenticity and career development. It emphasizes resisting conformity, embracing differences, and transforming your career. Today's students often fail to plan for the future, follow the crowd, and lack motivation. Many are responsible for showing students the way, including themselves, parents, teachers, institutions, government, and successful people. The document provides tips for enhancing perception and intelligence, following your passion, knowing yourself, networking, and assessing skills. It contrasts a university mindset with a universe mindset. The career decision process involves developing core values like altruism, transparency, humility, excellence and integrity. The overall message is to pursue authenticity in career choices.

1. Authenticity: Resist conformity,
embrace differences, and Transform
your career
Justine Chinoperekweyi, Ph.D,
February 1, 2018

2. Authenticity…
…it begins as an inner journey
…it is the light that shows you the way to a
fulfilling career.
Authentic
…conforming to fact or reality; trustworthy; not imaginary;
not an imitation; genuine; bona fide

4. Today’s Generation Students…….
Fail to plan for the future.
Follow the crowd
Choose by influence of others.
Accept the parent’s verdict (decision) by force
Get tempted by current trends
Jump into any career
Lack motivation
Fail to ‘’discover their lives’’
Live in a fantasy world
WHY CAREER DEVELOPMENT?

5.  Students themselves.
 Parents
 Teachers.
 Educational Institutions.
 Society
1. Government.
 People who have knowledge.
 People who achieved success .
 People who can influence others for good.
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE SHOWING THE WAY?

6. ENHANCE YOUR PERCEPTION AND INTELLIGENCEFOLLOW YOUR PASSION
“KNOW YOURSELF”
GET INVOLVED STARTING
‘NOW’
NETWORK
START SPENDING TIME WITH
YOURSELF
ASSESS YOUR SKILLS
WAKE UP & THINK
CREATEMAINTAIN YOUR PERSONAL
BRAND
EXPLORE PART TIME JOBS &
“SHINE”
FIND YOUR ESCAPE

7. Knowledge
Memorization
GPAs
Competition with peers
Specialization
Penalize mistakes
Extrinsic incentives
Innovation
Drive to ‘succeed’
Understand creative ability
Discover Self (Purpose, Passion)
Cross-disciplinary
Failure is learning
Intrinsic incentives
UNIVERSITY versus UNIVERSE MINDSET
University is temporary, the Universe is your
home.

8. THE CAREER DECISION- MAKING PROCESS

10. A – Altruism, Agility and Adaptability
T – Transparency & Tamed
H – Humility & Hungry
E – Excellence (Arete) & Enthusiasm
N – Nobility & Neatness
T – Transformational
I – Integrity & Intuitive
I – Initiative, Imagination & Entrepreneurship
U – Unyielding love and respect & Unflappable
C – Curiosity , Classy & Critical Thinking
T – Technology savvy
Y – Young mind and heart & Yearning
CORE VALUES & SKILLS: ENHANCING AUTHENTICITY

11. Pursue authenticity