1. Who Are
You?
Who?
Who?
Who?
Who?
Claire Childress and Sarah Crockett
DSA Professional Development Day
September 20, 2011

2. If you don’t understand
yourself you don’t
understand anybody else.
--Nikki Giovanni

3. DSA Aspiration
Pursue SELF-UNDERSTANDING and INTEGRITY
Virginia Tech students will form
a set of affirmative values and develop
the self-understanding to integrate these
values into their decision-making.

4. Self-Understanding
and
Career Services

5. How Can Career Services Help?
• Exploring Careers and Majors
– Walk-in Advising
– Appointments
– UNIV 2004 Course
– Departmental Career Advisors
– Career Resource Center
– Extensive Online Resources
• Gaining Experience
– Cooperative Education / Internship Program
• Self-Assessment
– Online and Written

6. MyPlan Assessment
• Online Career Planning Program
– Allows students to review careers and majors
• Results show preferences in four areas
– Personality
– Interests
– Skills
– Values

7. Strengths
Who Are You?

8. StrengthsQuest Talents
• A special natural ability or aptitude
• A capacity for achievement or success; ability
• A naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling,
or behavior that can be productively applied

9. Creating a Strength

10. Values
Who Are You?

11. NEEDS
VALUES
MORAL
S
WANTS
ETHICS

12. So, What’s the Difference?
• Values
– Principles or standards upon which you make most
decisions in your life
• Needs
– Things useful, required or desired
• Wants
– Wishes or desires
• Morals
– Principles or standards or habits with respect to right or
wrong in conduct
• Ethics
– A person’s system or code of morals; standards of
conduct and moral judgment

13. Values Defined
Deeply held commitments that
influence your thinking when you
are faced with choices.

14. Values in Career Development
• Few people really know what they want in life
because they have never really taken the time
and effort to determine what matters in their lives
• To determine what you want, you must first know
what is important to you in your life
– The values that give your life meaning!
• You will need to discover your hidden values

15. Where Do Your Values
Come From?
• From YOU!!
– People choose and formulate their values as they
direct their lives
• From parents, family, friends, religious beliefs,
community influence
• Can be seen in everyday actions and how you
make your decisions
• You may not always be aware of them

16. Criteria for Values
• Prizing: emphasizing emotions and feelings
• Choosing: relies on thinking and reasoning
• Acting: implies behavior
Basically we form our values
by feeling, thoughts and actions

17. Values Clarification
How Do Your Personal and Work
Values Relate to Strengths

18. Instructions
• On the orange sheet:
– Check off all the values that you feel the most strongly
about and from your selection choose your top five
• Compare the top five you just chose with your
MyPlan work values
• Select your top five from both sets of values and
write them on the green bull's-eye sheet
• Review your top five strengths and consider how
any of them relate to your values
• Share your thoughts with a partner or small
group

19. Interests
Who Are You?

20. John Holland’s Theory
• People have personalities AND Jobs have
personalities
• To increase satisfaction in a career, match the
personality traits
• People and work environments can be classified
into six different groups
Realistic | Investigative | Artistic
Social | Enterprising | Conventional

21. John Holland’s Theory
• Different personalities prefer different
environments
• May have some interests in several areas, but
primarily in two or three of the areas
• These three letters identify your Holland Code
– RIASEC

22. The Holland Hexagon

23. Code Breakers
Become More Familiar with
Interest Areas and How They Can
Relate to Strengths

24. Personality
Who Are You?

25. Student Perspective
Self-Understanding and Integrity

27. Who Are You?
Who? Who?
Who? Who?
Questions?
Claire Childress, childrec@vt.edu
Sarah Crockett, sarahec@vt.edu
Smith Career Center
540-231-6241