Presentation of career options, transferable skills and tools for self-assessment of your values, competencies and skills.

1. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Self-assessment
Values, competencies and skills

2. Where do MN candidates end up?
UiO. Kandidatundersøkelsen. 2014.
Candidates
BSc/MSc/PhD

3. Sectors of particular MN representation
UiO. Kandidatundersøkelsen. 2014.

4. Skills most appreciated in non-academic companies
NIFU. Hvordan ser arbeidslivet på kandidater fra UiO? 2016.

5. Skills most appreciated in 2022
The Future of Jobs. World Economic Forum. 2016.
1. Complex problem-solving
2. Critical thinking
3. Creativity
4. People management
5. Coordinating with others
6. Emotional intelligence
7. Judgement and decision-making
8. Service orientation
9. Negotiation skills
10. Cognitive flexibility

6. Stian Engen
Senior adviser

7. Stian Engen
Senior adviser
CoordinateAdministrate PublishInnovate

8. Stian Engen
Background
B.Sc.
Biotechnology
M.Sc.
Molecular biology
PhD
Immunology
Postdoc
Immunology

9. Transfer of skills
Researcher
• Subject knowledge
• Being a researcher
• Information seeking (reading papers)
• Project planning
• Risk management
• Doing research
• Analysing (data/findings)
• Evaluating (data and methods)
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving (failing experiments)
• Communication (papers/posters/oral)
• Enthusiasm (required to succeed)
• Perseverance
• Resilience
• Team working
• Networking
Adviser
• Other immediate rewards
• Project leader
• Information seeking (reports, seminars, conferences)
• Project planning (CDP)
• Risk management (relevance, interest, attendees)
• Facilitate seminars/workshops
• Analysing (statistics, evaluations etc.)
• Evaluating (seminars/workshops/programmes)
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving (support, employability)
• Communication (reports/memos/SoMe/oral)
• Enthusiasm (career vs. job)
• Perseverance
• Resilience
• Team working
• Networking

10. In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias
in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.
It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority
and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability.

12. Impostor syndrome
Think you are here
You are here

13. Steps to enlightenment
Self-reflection

14. Tools for enlightenment (through competence mapping)
Life wheel
What are my values?
Competence wheel
What are employers looking for?
Vitae RDF-planner
Skills

15. Exercise
Step 1: what are my values?
• Rate according to
importance
• What do I want to contribute to?
• What gives me energy?
• What’s important to me?
Examples
Step 2: current level of
accomplishment
• How do you feel it is going?
Step 3: desired level of
accomplishment
Individual assignment
Work - Career
Finance
Health
Family
Friends
Romance
Spirituality
Contribution (to society)
Personal growth
Fun & recreation

16. Current level Desired level

17. Values
Def: Your judgement of what is
important in your life.
• Acceptance
• Career / work
• Commitment
• Contribution (friends/family/society)
• Doing good (in the world)
• Economy / finance
• Efficiency
• Environmentalism
• Family
• Friends
• Fun & recreation
• Health / fitness
• Honesty
• Leadership
• Loyalty
• Personal growth
• Positivity
• Respect
• Romance
• Spirituality / religion
Reflect upon
• What happens upon prolonged mismatch between desired and current level?
• What role does (and should) my values play in my career choice?
• What would a 10 look like for me?
• What number am I now?
• What number could I be (realistically) by next month?
• What has caused me to be stuck at this number in this area?
• What can propel me forward in this area?
• What action steps will I commit to?
• Who can support me as I take these new steps?
• What structures can I put in place to ensure that I move forward?
Action items
Individual actions Who can help me? How can the Faculty help?
Workshops?
Seminars?
Other actions?
uio.pameldingssystem.no/measures

18. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Lunch