This document provides an overview of a career development workshop. It includes an agenda that covers an overview of expectations and logistics, best practices from past attendees, goal setting exercises, and an assessment of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types. The workshop also presents a four step career development model of explore, develop, target, and transition. It encourages participants to set specific career goals and provides templates to document goals. Finally, it discusses applying MBTI results to identifying career matches and developing customized career strategies and networking questions based on personality type.

1. WELCOME!

2. Question
What actions will you take to meet your
career development goals?

3. Brief Introductions
Step 1: In one word, complete the
following sentence:
For my career development,
_____________ is/are what
matters.
Step 2: Create a name tag,
including:
• Your name
• Your department
• Your “one word”
Step 3: *Meet as many
people as you can in the next
ten minutes, sharing this
information.

4. Today’s Agenda
 Course and program overview
-expectations, logistics, and career development model
 Best practices from CEO Alum
 Career goal setting
 MBTI- Self Examination

5. Class Logistics
 Web page
 Assignments
 Support

6. Career Development Model
• Self-Assessments
-Interests, Values,
Preferences
• Research careers
• Identify skills and
transferrable skills
obtained and
needed
Step 1: Explore

7. Career Development Model
Develop a plan of
action to gain skills
in:
• Career
Networking,
interviewing,
application
documents
• Job specific
Internships,
conferences,
professional
development
Step 2: Develop

8. Career Development Model
Target your
actions to gain
specific skills,
experiences,
contacts, and
competencies
related to your
careers of
choice.
Target
application
materials and
“brand”
towards specific
roles.
Step 3: Target to roles/sectors

9. Career Development Model
Step 4: Transition
Synthesize steps 1-
3, to move forward
with your plan.
Translate skills,
experiences, and
training into
meaningful
opportunity.

10. Goal Setting
“The discipline of writing something down is
the first step toward making it happen. In
conversation you can get away with all kinds of
vagueness and nonsense, often without even
realizing it. But there’s something about putting
your thoughts on paper that forces you to get
specific.”
-Lee Iaacoca, former CEO of Ford, and Chrysler Motors on documenting goals

11. Words from CEO alumni

12. Career Goals Poster

13. MBTI
• Based on theory that people have observable and
predictable preferences
• Used for:
 Career Counseling
 Team Building
 Leadership Training
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14. 10/1/15

16. Sensing vs. Intuition

17. Thinking vs. Feeling

18. How do you structure your time?

19. REVIEW RESULTS
• Review your reported type
• Is your score Slight, Moderate, Clear or
Very Clear for each preference?
• Read your profile(s) on 16 Types table
• If unsure, read the description for the
opposite preference
• Pick up the expanded handout for your
preference
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20. Communication and the “heart of type”
NF (intuitive &
feeling)
SF (sensing and
feeling)
NT (intuitive and
thinking)
ST (sensing and
thinking)
Style: social, rapidly
shift conversation,
share feelings about
what they are doing,
generally interested in
other’s stories
Style: kind and
helpful, give detailed
explanation, may
experience guilt
especially if they feel
that they are not taking
care of you
Style: clear and direct,
want to give and receive
concise data, may lose
focus when too much
detail or too many
options are presented
Style: thorough and
detailed, attend to
many details, provide
background logic and
support analysis, take
pride in being field
expert
When
communicating
with this type: be
positive and upbeat,
avoid leading with
details, express the big
picture, take time to
create a personal
connection as they can
be sensitive to clues
that you do not value
their input
When
communicating
with this type: be
patient, communicate
time constraints early
and politely, reassure
their value, be sensitive
to their needs
When
communicating
with this type: be
brief and logical, sell
them the big picture
benefit, let them know
the payoff, outline
crucial information on
paper for them to digest
later
When
communicating
with this type: be
precise, thorough and
grounded in reality,
reveal the source or
sequence of your info,
tap into issues of
personal relevance, give
them time to respond

21. APPLYING THE MBTI
You can apply your MBTI results by identifying:
 Potential careers/environmental matches
 Challenges and strengths in the career search process customized to your type
 Career development strategies and action steps
 Questions to ask in networking and employment interview situations
 Best ways to modify your communication style to different personality types
10/1/15

22. Question
What actions will you take to meet your
career development goals?

23. Next week
Guest speaker:
The value of your Phd
Anett Gyurak, PhD
 User Experience Researcher @ Facebook