Designed PowerPoint by Adding Content Based on 'Career Fitness' and Adapted a Skills Assessment from 'Training for Life' Textbooks--Facilitated a 50 Minute Classroom Presentation and In-Class Group Activity (originally an MS Office template)

1. The Career Fitness Program: Exercising Your Options
Diane Sukiennik, Lisa Raufman, and William Bendat
SSS 150 – Career Exploration and Assessment Presenter: Jessica Ayub
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Identifying Your Skills
Evaluating Skills
Evaluating Your Skills to Accentuate Your Assets
to Accentuate Your Assets

2. SELF-EVALUATION OF SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Checkmark Boxes:
q Education
q Life
q Next Job
Sections to Complete:
Communication Skills and Abilities
Writing, Helping, Creating
Organizational Skills and Abilities
Managing, Analyzing
Technical and Physical Skills and Abilities
Technical, Physical
Evaluating Your Skills
to Accentuate Your Assets

3. SELF-EVALUATION OF SKILLS AND ABILITIES
INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPLETE
Only Checkmark Boxes:
When you have already acquired the skill in
q Education
q Life
Only Checkmark Box:
When you want to develop the skill in
q Next Job
Sections to Complete: You do not have to check mark each statement, but only those
in the section which are already acquired or you want to develop.
Evaluating Your Skills
to Accentuate Your Assets

4. LIFE & CAREER SKILLS
Functional Skills
• Not associated with specific job
• Accomplish general tasks or job functions
Work-Content Skills
• Specific and Specialized to Job
Transferable
Adaptive or Self-Management Skills Skills
• Personal Attributes / Traits (also Soft Skills) Includes All of These
• Natural Abilities
You can develop new skills and
improve on current identified
skills throughout your life.
Evaluating Your Skills
to Accentuate Your Assets

5. IDENTIFYING YOUR SKILLS
Likely Assumptions
• Discount Our Special Talents
May believe it doesn’t take special skills
• Can’t Claim a Skill, if Not Currently Using
Employers look for
• Failing to Recognize Value, When Not Paid employees who are task-
to Use the Skill oriented, and think and talk in
• Categorizing Ourselves Too Narrowly terms of what they as
“I am a student” or “I am a secretary” employees can do to make
Experience involved public speaking, doing organizational work, the employer’s operation
coordinating schedules, managing budgets, researching needs,
problem solving, motivating others, resolving problems caused by easier, better, more profitable,
low morale and lack of cooperation, and establishing priorities for and more efficient.
allocation of available time, resources, and funds
Evaluating Your Skills
to Accentuate Your Assets

6. IDENTIFY Transferrable Skills Developed as a Result of
SKILLS Completing a College Degree
SKILLS LIBERAL ARTS MAJOR
Listening effectively, writing essays and reports, convincing individuals and groups of the
COMMUNICATION importance of your ideas, negotiating disputes and differences, selling yourself and your
product or ideas
Analytical thinking, thinking abstractly, connecting ideas or concepts in new and fresh ways,
PROBLEM-SOLVING OR determining broader issues, defining an issue, identifying several solutions to the same
CRITICAL THINKING problem, hypothesizing implications and future scenarios, creating new ways to handle an
issue, persuading others to act in the best interest of the group, synthesizing ideas
Listening, communication understanding verbally and nonverbally, compromising, speaking
with colleagues, advising people, helping people resolve problems, communicating ideas
HUMAN RELATIONS effectively, cooperating with others to solve problems and to complete projects, working well
with diverse groups of people, appreciating differences, teaching or coaching others
Evaluating Your Skills
to Accentuate Your Assets

7. IDENTIFY Transferrable Skills Developed as a Result of
SKILLS Completing a College Degree
SKILLS LIBERAL ARTS MAJOR
Assessing needs, planning or arranging presentations or social events, designing programs,
ORGANIZATIONAL coordinating events, delegating responsibility, evaluating programs, managing the
implementation of projects, time management
Searching computerized databases and published reference materials, identifying themes,
RESEARCH SKILLS analyzing data, classifying data and/or handling detail work, investigating problems,
recording data, writing reports and term papers
What is a Liberal Arts Education?
A liberal arts education refers to college studies that
provide general knowledge and develop intellectual
ability. This type of education can prepare you for
many fields in today's workplace.
Learn 10 ways to market your Lib Arts degree toSkills
Evaluating Your employers
http://www.iseek.org/education/liberalarts.html Your Assets
to Accentuate

8. Your Personality Traits
Your Most Valuable Assets
We’re referring to aspects of your personality, such as the
abilities to:
• stay calm in a crisis
• manage many things at once
• natural ability with math and numbers
• and/or natural ability with words
More important we’re talking about personal characteristics that
Natural Abilities
contribute to success in the workplace, such as:
These skills are called Adaptive Skills
• enthusiasm and a good attitude
and help you to sell yourself and
• persistence and confidence
your talents. They are not learned
• a sense of humor and many others
or acquired, but rather developed.
Evaluating Your Skills
to Accentuate Your Assets

9. Classroom
REAL Story: Meet John
Activity
• John planned a party for his girlfriend • History
Surprise party huge success
• Divided friends into groups Talent for making things happen
Food, entertainment, transportation and decorations Party planning for his girlfriend
• Career Class describing an accomplishment,
used this example Congressional internship pursued
Described initial plan and how he organized and divided
the work, made a checklist, and communicated with Reference letter recommendation
everyone
Started college and found another
Identified skills like leadership, creativity, communication, internship
determination, organization, dependability, and attention
to detail. Researched careers, especially event
Because John did not have any real work experience, he used the party-
planning (data on salary and
planning activity on his resume to demonstrate his skills. His resume got him educational attainment drove decision
an interview, and his outgoing personality and strong organizational skills got to seek a Bachelor’s degree)
him the internship.
Evaluating Your Skills
to Accentuate Your Assets