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This document outlines the key points from a career resilience and self-reliance workshop. The workshop aimed to help participants become aware of their career resilience skills, identify areas for improvement, and understand what career resilience and self-reliance mean. It covered topics such as identifying and building resilience skills, dealing with career changes, traits of resilient people, and skills related to career self-reliance. Participants were guided through self-assessment exercises to evaluate their own resilience and self-reliance.
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- 1. Rosa Martinez April 19,2012 CAREER RESILIENCE & CAREER SELF- RELIANCE
- 3. WORKSHOP OUTCOMES ï Tobecome aware of oneâs career resilience skills ï To identify career self-reliance areas to work on
- 4. WHATâS RESILIENCE? ï Ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
- 5. WHATâS CAREER RESILIENCE? ï Ability to adapt to changing circumstances even when they are adverse, disruptive or discouraging
- 6. TASK 1. ï Self-assessyour career resilience skills (Worksheet 1) ï Discuss your findings and how you can build your resilience skills
- 7. DEALING WITH CAREERCHANGES 1) Describe the change. What will you lose as a result of this change? Example: Job loss Losses: Stable job; income; job status; contact with co-workers; sense of belonging; professional purpose.
- 8. 2) Find outeverything about the change and how it affects you. Look for the positives Example: The job loss was a result of relocation. My profession is a regulated one here so I first need to pass a series of regulatory bodies exams before working as a doctor again. Positives: I âŠ.
- 9. 3) Allow yourselftime to process what your learned about the change and about yourself Example: Focus on your leisure activities or hobbies; do sports; read a book; meet new people
- 10. 4) Explore thepositives that result from this change and make some decisions about how youâll respond to change Example: Options: Change career; get a transitional job; get accredited as a doctor Decision: Iâll look for my professional accreditation Benefit: Greater job satisfaction Challenge: It takes time and persistence Next step: Start your accreditation & figure out budget
- 11. CAREER RESILIENCE SKILLS ï Acknowledge change as part of your life ï Give yourself time to process it ï Look for opportunities change creates ï Know your skills and keep them updated ï Reframe career development around learning ï Be able to compromise and adapt to changes
- 12. TRAITS OF CAREERRESILIENT PEOPLE ï Team players ï Focus on continuous ï Effective learning communicators ï Self-confident ï Adaptable to change ï Willing to take risks ï Positive and flexible ï Committed to personal attitudes excellence
- 13. TASK 2. ï Explore your beliefs and attitudes towards work search in your field (Worksheet 2)
- 14. CAREER RESILIENCE PILLARS Positive Positive Beliefs Attitudes Positive Skills
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- 16. WHATâS CAREER SELF-RELIANCE? Todepend or rely upon yourself; to be in charge of your own career
- 17. IF YOU ARECAREER SELF-RELIANT Growth & development mean: ï Moving sideways, downwards our upwards in your current position ï Changing employers ï Changing occupations ï Specializing or generalizing ï Choosing self-employment
- 18. CASE STUDY Jose, anelectronic engineer, used to work as a production manager, in a textile company in his home country. When he arrived here, he first worked as a technician for a small embroidery company and after a year he changed jobs. Now, he works for a nation-wide company and he plans to take his professional accreditation exam by October. In the long-term he would like to start his own business so he is saving to take some businees courses first.
- 19. TASK 3. ï Completethe Self-Reliance Test (Worksheet 3) ï Think about the ways you could growth in each of the career self-reliance areas
- 20. CAREER SELF-RELIANCE SKILLS ï Self-awareness ï Matching & decision ï Self-promotion making ï Exploring & creating ï Political awareness opportunities ï Coping with uncertainty ï Action planning ï Development focus ï Networking ï Transfer skills ï Negotiation ï Self-confidence
- 21. AIMGA CAREER ENHANCEMENTWORKSHOPS Career Development & Management Career Career Resilience & Self-reliance Awareness Interpersonal Communication Soft skills
- 22. BE THE HEROOF YOUR OWN STORY
- 23. REFERENCES ï Brown, B. L. (n.d.). Career Resilience. ERIC Digest. In ERIC Digests. Retrieved April 18, 2012, from http://www.ericdigests.org/1997-3/career2.html ï Careers: Self-reliance Skills (2010). In Moreton Bay College. Retrieved April 18, 2012, from http://www.mbc.qld.edu.au/mymbc/careers/careers-self- reliance-skills ï Positive Works II (pp. 22-36). (2004). Edmonton, Canada: Government of Alberta, Human Resources & Employment.