This document discusses personality development and career orientation. It defines personality development as the relatively enduring feelings, patterns of thoughts and behaviors that distinguish individuals. It notes that personality development involves enhancing one's inner attributes like confidence and outer attributes like communication skills. Factors that affect personality development include childhood memories, family environment, culture, education and life goals. Developing key skills like leadership, adaptability and critical thinking can help build a good personality. Setting SMART goals and conducting a SWOT analysis can help with career orientation. Key activities to improve student employability include helping with CVs, mock interviews, skills identification, and spending time in organizations on placements.

1. Personality Development
and
Career Orientation
Dr. Anil V. Dusane
Sir Parashurambhau College,Pune, India
anildusane@gmail.com
www.careerguru.co.in

3. There is no substitute for knowing yourself
Knowing yourself is the beginning of
all wisdom
Aristotle

4. Personality Development
Personality development is relatively enduring
feelings, pattern of thoughts and behaviours that
distinguish individuals from one another.
Soft skills is an integral part of personality
development. Soft skills are related with personal
attributes that enable someone to interact
effectively and harmoniously with other people.

5. Process of Personality Development
It is a process of enhancing one’s characteristics and
traits that helps us to build our overall persona.
It is a process to improve inner and outer self that will
help to boost confidence and widen our scope of
knowledge.
It is a process to find out our capabilities and convert
these into our strengths.
It is a process of enhancing one’s personality for our
personal and professional life.

6. Attributes of Inner Personality
Confidence
Positive thoughts
Beliefs
Observant

7. Attributes of Outer Personality
Dressing sense
Walking style
Grooming
Positive body language
Keeping eye contact
Communication skill
Finishing

8. Factors affecting personality development
Child hood memories
Family environment
Culture
Societal status
Characteristics of peer groups
Education
Goals Vision, and mission of life
Physical and Psychological development

9. Mission statement of life
“Outstanding people have one thing in common: An
absolute sense of mission.”
Mission statement of life is related to your purpose of life,
your direction and the substance of the things that matters
you.
Mission of life is not only to survive but to achieve specific
goals with passion, compassion with humour and style.
Purpose of life is the reason why you’re doing what you’re
doing with your life. Direction is your plan and the actions
that you must make in order to fulfill the requirements for
achieving goals.
The substance of things is related your core values, ideals,
principles, people and also the things that bring enthusiasm
and passion to your life. Beliefs or activities that get you
exciting and mean something to you.

10. Main mission of life
To find out who we are really
one.
To taste as much of life and
experience as we can.

11. Some Mission statement of
life
“To serve as a leader, live a balanced life, and apply ethical principles to
make a significant difference”.
Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell Soup Company
“To be a teacher. And to be known for inspiring my students to be more
than they thought they could be.”
Oprah Winfrey, founder of OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network
To have fun in [my] journey through life and learn from [my] mistakes.
Sir Richard Branson, founder of The Virgin Group
“To use my gifts of intelligence, charisma, and serial optimism to cultivate
the self-worth and net-worth of women around the world”.
Amanda Steinberg, founder of DailyWorth.com
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12. It looks at one's individual traits, motivational
drives, needs and attitudes.
Personality inventories

13. Formula of Success

14. Goal Setting
Depends on
Academic qualifications
Experience
Priorities
Expectations in life
SMART Goal
Types of Goals:
Knowledge based-Ph.D
Hierarchical-Director of company
Monetary-Earn Rs 25 lakh/annum)
Combination of two or three goals.

15. SMART goals in life
Your goal should be SMART
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Relevant
• Time bound

16. SWOT analysis

17. Personality requisites
Interests
Values
Acquired skills

18. Important
Values
Motivation
Positivity
Passion
Respect
Courage
Perseverance
Patriotism
Service to others
Commitment
Open-mindedness
Consistency
Honesty
Efficiency
Innovation
Creativity

19. Hands: Assembly, operation and repair of
machines
Words: Reading, writing, speaking
Senses: Observation, inspection, diagnosis
Analytical thinking: Researching, analysing,
prioritizing
Creativity: Invention, design
Artistic abilities: Fashioning or shaping things,
decoration
Leadership: Initiating new projects, organizing,
direction, decision making
What is your deep interest?

20. Skills to be developed for good
personalityLeadership
Adaptability
Flexibility
Multi-dimensional thinker
Personal Accountability
Critical thinking
Creativity
Work ethics

21. Skills to be developed for good
personality
Discipline
Management skills
Self confidence
Team work
Contact building
Perseverance
Stress management
Decision making

22. Important tips for Personality development
Know yourself
Live the best life you possibly can
Follow your interest
Be confident
Be yourself
Check your attire

23. Important tips for Personality development
Work on your Body Language
Be courteous
Be a good listener
Read more often and develop new interests
Meet new people
Have an opinion
Bring positivity in your outlook

24. Employability skills

25. Mental Elasticity and Complex
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Creativity
People Skills
Science, tech, engineering and
maths (STEM)
Social, mobile, analytics and cloud
(SMAC)
Essential skills for future careers

26. Key activities to improve student
employability
Help with CVs
Being able to have mock interviews with employers
Help identifying skills gaps
Confidence building activities
Spending time in a business or organisation on
placement

27. Key activities to improve student
employability
Being able to shadow a professional person in their job
Help researching the jobs market
Practising presentation skills
More information about jobs
Personal support

28. Thank
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